But every time we passed under the little bridge into the dimness of the narrow, tree-and-vine-grown banks of the little stream leading from two sides of the duck-pond, even though the band played a waltz from "The Balkan Princess," and a selection of "Lohengrin," and children were shouting and motors coming and going, that magic fell upon us. I didn't know if it were Aztec or Spanish ghosts, or spirits of the heroes of 1847, who assailed me. One thing is sure. Those old _ahuehuetes_ keep everything that was ever confided to them and trap the unwary with it. At this season, too, one begins to see familiar migratory birds come to pass the cold season in Mexico, recalling with a note of homesickness the distant land of one's birth. A "ruby-crowned kinglet" was perched on a low branch by the water--and some kind of a "warbler" was warbling New England lays all over the ancient park. _November 30th._ Zapata has just given some more building material to the new republic, in the shape of what he calls _El Plan de Ayala_, of the date of November 25th, written for him by one of the Vasquez Gómez brothers. To our surprise, the brilliant editor of _La Prensa_ has spoken not unfavorably of it. I don't know if it is bowing to the inevitable, or expediency, that makes him advocate the use of the aforesaid material, which provides for the division of the lands of the state of Morelos, the only state in which, for climatic reasons (not political), the distribution of land could be undertaken without installing gigantic irrigation processes impossible for the Indians. All through Mexican history revolutionary leaders have launched these Plans. Iturbide published the _Plan de Iguala_, February 24, 1823, known as _Las Tres Garantías_, Porfirio Diaz the _Plan de Noria_, 1869; Madero's _Plan de San Luis Potosí_ is what we are now living and breathing (and sometimes panting) by.[26] [23] Armand Delille distinguished himself; at the battle of the Yser and on the bridge of Steenstraete was decorated with the Légion d'Honneur. He was sent to hold it with three hundred men, and it _was_ held; but when he was relieved, of the three hundred men only thirty remained. [24] Maurice Parmentier fell at Dieuze, November 28, 1914.