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Show Easter in Mexico. If you were visiting some little Mexican Mex-ican friends at Easter they would take you early in the morning to the living room, where they would point with great glee to a large dressed doll hanging hang-ing above your head just out of reach. "That is our pinita," they would tell you, in answer to your surprised look. "Pinita? What is that?" "Why, don't you know? Underneath the doll's dress is hidden a big paper bag filled wits candles and cakes and little toys. When we have had breakfast break-fast we w ill each be blindfolded in turn and given a long stick. We must try, to break the pinita with it: then ' a shower of good things will fall around us. But we can only have three turns." It happepns just as they say, only you have begged to be last, and have watched your friends so carefully that you have profited by their mistakes, and hit the pinita just right, so that the shower falls on you. Then 'what a scrambling! |