In the month Mol another fiesta is undertaken in behalf of these insects so that the gods may provide an abundance of flowers for the bees (Landa, 1864, p.
The thanksgiving fiesta was held on the seventh of June, in the cathedral, on account of the great concourse of people to hear it; but even that had not room for them.
Before putting his hand to any other work he desired, like the devout gentleman that he is, to thank God a second time for the victory, with a fiesta in honor of the blessed sacrament.
Illustration: On the Morning of the Fiesta at Pala.
The morning of the fiesta dawned bright and clear.
Illustration: The Fiesta Procession, Leaving the Chapel for the Headgate of the Irrigation Ditch.
At last, in May, 1913, the new irrigation system was completed, and a grand fiesta was held to celebrate the opening.
As a further evidence of progress they have now substituted for their old fiesta a modern agricultural fair.
Among the Franciscan monks who came from San Luis Rey to attend the Pala fiesta was another old battler who had fought through two wars and won two medals for valor from his country.
The game is now played only for a prize or small purse which is offered by the Fiesta Committee.
Then the Benediction is given, all the motley crowd drops on its knees, and afterwards everybody hurries into the Church to hear Mass, and so the religious part of the fiesta ends.
Long before the sun rises our friends will have wended their way home, and there will be but little joy in their lives until the next fiesta comes round.
Having arrived at this mission I talked to the Reverend Fathers and asked them where the fiesta was.
The number of inhabitants could not be determined because they were absent at a fiesta in another village near by.
They answered that they did not know and inquired of some Indians who told them that the fiesta was at a village called Quariniga and that the dancing had already begun.
But the fiesta was over, and almost immediately the crowd was in motion, preparing to set out for home.
It was the fiesta of this saint which was now celebrated, and to which we were formally invited.
Nearly all were more than half intoxicated; and I noticed that some who had kept sober during the whole of the fiesta were overtaken at last.
The fiestaof Santo Cristo del Amor was still going on, and it was to conclude the next day with a baile de dia, or ball by daylight, at the place where it began, in the house of the patron.
In fact, it was the fete of Santiago, and among the Indians this fiesta was identified with the fair.
On the eleventh began the fiesta of Corpus Alma, a festival of nine days' observance in honour of Santo Cristo del Amor.
The forerunner of evening was descending upon Algeciras as I mounted through her now all but voiceless fiesta and struck away over a grass-patched hillock.
The real fiesta began at night in the Alameda of Hercules.
The whole gathering was more informal and gayer, and seemed more what it was intended to be, a fiesta of the village.
The heat was scorching, and Albino would have grumbled at setting out at this hour, but he, too, was ripe for the fiesta of Ticul.
I see now why Filippa is promised a Pina gown for our coming feast, or fiesta day, that you kindly promise to give in my honor before I go away.
There was the gravest doubt as to his guilt, the Leccos are most peaceful, and the whole affair was the result of a drunken fiesta of mixed breeds in which not one was fit to remember anything.
On fiesta days the little police are held in their barracks on the big open plaza and sally forth only in parties.
The dusk of fiesta is filled with drunken, sullen Indians among whom wander here and there dishevelled creatures with clotted wounds.
This once more popular amusement had been dampened by the last really important fiesta they had celebrated.
Sometimes a mission priest comes down the river, and then, if the family has prospered, there will be a grand fiesta and a marriage will be performed according to the rites of the Church.
Over there the cañassa was always on draft for all at all times, while half the week was a fiesta and Sunday a brawling bedlam.
Later, in the established camp down the river, there came a three day fiesta for which he prepared in advance.
Each day in some part of the city is a fiesta in honor of some particular saint who is heralded and honored by a vast popping of firecrackers, squibs, and rockets and a grand procession through the neighborhood.
During this fiesta there had been no shooting of dynamite--that is quarter pound sticks with a short fuse like a fire-cracker.
The fiesta was for the birthday of the town and in honor of the ancient gods of the place; at daybreak the Indians gathered within its walls from miles.
Though the field-sports were over, the fiesta of San Juan was not yet ended.
Mayhap it was as well for Carlos that the sports were now ended, and the fiesta about to close.
Her presence at the fiesta of San Juan was the act of Carlos, who had been desirous of giving a day's amusement to the mother and sister he so much loved.
The mestizo had been to the fiestaas well as his master, and his keen eyes had been busy on that day.
On the second day after the fiesta there was a small dining party at the Presidio.
It was his bold luck on the day of the fiesta that had enabled him to provide such a stock.
About a week after the fiesta of Saint John, a small party of ciboleros was seen crossing the Pecos, at the ford of the "Bosque Redondo.
The phrase "endowed feast" (fiesta dotada) is used also in Italian and French.
At first the news of the fiesta failed to rouse the people from the lethargy into which they had sunk, but gradually their pleasure-loving natures responded, and preparations were begun for the three days' play.
The barrio was certainly preparing for a fiesta and no ordinary one, either, for elaborate and barbaric decorations shrouded huts and street.
Could it be that the fiestawas poor Papita's wedding?
The fiesta usually begins with a solemn celebration of the Mass at the church, with special music by the band or orchestra in addition to the choir and organ.
From the date of the Fiesta de Santa Maria de Refugio until the night of the Mona Fiestahe remained undecided what to do.
The July moon is in the full, brother, and I have brought the Showut Poche-dakas for the yearly Mona Fiesta to the spot where our fathers worshipped since a time when no man can remember.
He had been pointed out to him at the fiesta by Jessamy as the champion trailer of all the Paubas, of which the Showut Poche-daka Tribe was a sort of branch.
Ride here to the Fiesta de Santa Maria de Refugio on the first night that the moon is full.
You'll be interested at the fiesta tomorrow night.
He was a kindly old man, liked by everybody; and each year he allowed the Indians to hold their Mona Fiesta at The Four Pools.
The Mona Fiesta was the tribal "Feast of the Dead.
The Fiesta de Santa Maria de Refugio was to continue throughout the entire period of the full moon, and there must be diversion for every day and every night.
Then came the night of the first Mona Fiesta since he became Watchman of the Dead; and that night temporarily decided him.
Not so luxurious as last year, perhaps, because the captains of the fiestaare not so wealthy as those of last year, and owing to the tobacco famine, the Contrabandistas will omit their drama of tobacco smuggling.
Nor did thefiesta end with the going down of the sun.
We had luckily just missed the great fiesta of Murcia which culminates with a huge procession out to Fuen Santa in the mountains.
The omnibus tout added to this that there was a fiestaat Jijona, and that many people were going there.
At the big fiesta of Jijona were so many strangers that we were almost overlooked.
On Thursday the fiestawas again held in the cathedral.
The procession reached the cathedral and the fiesta was held.
On Monday the religious of St. Francis held their fiesta in the same church.
Moratín's Fiesta de toros, or of mingled hendecasyllables and seven-syllabled lines, cf.
The conclusion of a truce was frequently celebrated by holding a joint fiesta de toros.
In order to assure the people of Cuba that the campaign has been attended with 'glorious' results, a public fiesta in honour of the return of General Gandarias and his followers is celebrated in our town.
But Spain was the land in which this might be regarded as the national spectacle,--as much so as the fiesta de toros, or any other of the popular exhibitions of the country.
