Capitolo 23
the Mexican population; rather he encouraged them to remain in his
service. This way you/he/she had jumped on around Las Palomas possesses a ranch a little Mexican
community that numbers around a dozen of families that you/they lived in closing of _jacals_
to the buildings of principal ranch. They was the simple people and their surrenders
new master a feudal loyalty. There were also many small _ranchites_
located on the earth, where, there had been under the Mexican regime,
buildings of pretentious adobe. A number of families still resided to these
abandoned ranch, happy in cultivating the small fields or to look later
raw of goats and some head of bovine livestock, not paying rescue of rental a
you mend kept to the new owner.
The customs of these Mexican people were simple and primitive. Them
approved blindly the imposed religious teachings with fire and sword
from the Spanish conquerors on their ancestors. A chaplain visited them
every year, baptizing his/her children, the youth getting married himself/herself/itself that confesses the
penitent, and saying masses for the rest of the souls of the past.
Their social customs were in many respects only. For example,
in courting to a youth it was not never permitted him the presence of his
inamorata, unless in society of others, or under the eye of an adult person that guards young people.
Proposals, also among the nearest of neighbors or more intimate than
friends, were made in writing always, usually from the father of the
young to the parents of the girl, but in the absence of so, from a
godfather or _padrino_. Fifteen days were the term left space to a replica,
and any matter as desirable it is probable that the match is, you/he/she was not explained
good taste to answer in front of the last day. The owner of Las Palomas
you/he/she had called above for frequently behaving him as _padrino_ for his/her people, and this way
succeeded you/he/she had always been him that the vaqueros on his/her preferred ranch
his/her services to those of them own fathers. There was as soon as a vaquero