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day, at dinner, the mozo (waiter) perceiving that Anna had not regaled herself with a certain dish of calf ’s head, which he seemed to think very highly of, handed it to her, expatiating vastly on its merits of garlic; while, in endeavouring to make her comprehend the full force of its nature, he repeatedly touched his own forehead, with a leer, saying, “Cabeza de ternera, linda senorita, cabeza de ternera!” (“Calf ’s head, pretty senorita, calf ’s head!”) which striking her as being a capital joke, to say the least, she was persuaded to try his calf ’s head, and see, if she could not taste, what it was made of.’
‘On the first
Anna Bishop, from Travels of Anna Bishop in Mexico, 1849
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