Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark.
- Thomas Allibone Janvier
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![he began to laugh at the blacksmith because of the trick that had been put upon him; and that the woman might share in the joke of it— they all were great friends together—he knock¬ ed at the door of her room and called to her. But the woman did not answer back to him; and when he knocked louder and louder she still gave no sign. Then he, and the blacksmith too, became anxious about the woman; and together they opened the door and went into the room. And what they saw when they were come into the room, Senor, was the most terrible sight that ever was seen in this world! For there, lying upon her bed, was that unhappy woman look¬ ing all distraught and agonized; and nailed fast to the feet and to the hands of her were the very same iron shoes that the blacksmith— who well knew his own forge-work—had nailed fast to the hoofs of the mule! Moreover, upon her body were the welts and the bruises left there when the blacks had beaten the mule with their cruel blows. And the woman, Senor, was as dead as she possibly could be. So they knew that what had happened was a divine punishment, and that the blacks were [67]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0109.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
