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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![CITY OF MEXICO LEGEND OF DON JUAN MANUEL1 THIS Don Juan Manuel, Senor, was a rich and worthy gentleman who had the bad vice of killing people. Every night at eleven o’clock, when the Palace clock was striking, he went out from his magnificent house —as you know, Senor, it still is standing in the street that has been named after him—all muffled in his cloak, and under it his dagger in his hand. Then he would meet one, in. the dark street, and would ask him politely: “What is the hour of the night?” And that person, having heard the striking of the clock, would answer: “It is eleven hours of the night.” And Don 1 See Note I. [i]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
