Excerpt from Mercedes: A Story of Mexico HE recollection of my own ignorance before I came to Mexico, of its social and religious condition, and the astonishment I have often felt since at the incorrect state ments made in newspapers published in the United States, have induced me to write this story. I have attempted to represent the every-day life of the people as I have seen it during a residence here of six years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.