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Show The Conntrr Lont of Caba. The gunjiro, properly speaking, Is the Cuban Cu-ban country lout; the same fellow you have seen lounging about remote country cross roads stores in our own land; the fellow who is humped and callow, scraggy of hair, with spreading legs, swinging jaws, silent tongue and sodden eyes tho being here not so bright as tbo negro of the topics, nor so sunny, nor even so little aspiring. Ho is a sort of spiritless spirit-less animal, never exactly harmful, never : wholly helpful, always contented with a ragged rag-ged sombrero of any sort of stuff, a pair of leather breeches, a filthy shirt worn outside these, any vile cigarette, like our own noble I American youth, a cockade, and a machete, 1 or any other villainous knife, though a tap ! from a riding whip would drive him into a paralysis of fear. He is not vicious, though be looks It desperately. des-perately. He does somo labor. Uo does that not wholly under protest. But he is, all in all, only another one in summing up population. popula-tion. If be be married he lives In a palm thatched hut anywhere. His wife, whose grado of intelligence is even beneath his own, Is prolific of children and expedients. That is, sbe will give her husband from a dozen to a score of healthy youug guajiros, and knows how to boil roots and mend the thatches of their cabin. These duties are about all their condition imposes. Over there against the mountain, where I have been for a few days, are a number of these guajiros' homes. I counted ninety-three children in seven fatci-i fatci-i lies. Of these over one-half were naked. ! Edgar Lu Wakeraan's Cuba Letter. |