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Show HIJH WHY THEY CALL US H GRINGOES. H lUI "Why do the Mexicans call us "Grin- H III foes"? A correspondent of the Chi- H ljljl -cago Tribune presents this Interesting H II 'explanation: H I j "Gringo is a word of contempt for H j ! Americans and had its origin in 1847, H Vhen the United States army invod- Hj 'cd Mexico. One of the songs popular H -with the soldiors at that time had the flf! 1 1 line, 'Green grow the leaves of tho H Ilf ' hawthorn treo,' and it was from the H I I first two words that the name was H f derived" |