Courting in the Streets of Mexico.
I ‘ Going along tho streets of Mexico City one day,’ writes a correspondent of the Earth, ‘ I saw a man flipping his fingers grotesquely, as though playing an imaginary tattoo in the air. I looked all around, but I couldn’t see anything. The next day I saw him at it again, gazing skyward all the time. I went into the hotel and one of my friends asked me if I had seen the young fellow yet who was courting that young girl. I understood at once, and looking out I saw a young woman in a third-story window looking out at him and doing the tattoo act also. Said my friend : “ This business has been going on for two years, and neither of them has spoken a word.’ It was so. They were courting. That’s tho way they do it down there. It was a flirtation, long protracted, but whether the pantomime was translated into language I am unable to say.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 878, 28 December 1888, Page 4
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