The mice are skinned and threaded on a thin stick, which is stuck through their necks and serves as a spit.
Having enjoyed the dainty morsel thus set before him, the husband now tells his wife what he is going to do to-day.

He will run deer or hunt squirrels, and accordingly takes his bow and arrows or his axe with him.

In spring-time he may go to the field.

The wife also tells of her plans for the day.

The work that engages most of the time of the housewives in Mexico is the grinding of the corn, on the metate, for corn-cakes; and if she has any time to spare she boils beans, looks for herbs, or works on her weaving-frame; but she never sits about idle.