Little Mexican & Other Stories

BY THE SAME AUTHOR
ANTIC HAY: A NOVEL
CROME YELLOW: A NOVEL
MORTAL COILS: SHORT STORIES
LIMBO: SHORT STORIES
LEDA: AND OTHER POEMS
ON THE MARGIN: NOTES & ESSAYS
LITTLE MEXICAN & OTHER STORIES
BY ALDOUS HUXLEY
LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1924
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
SOME people I know can look back over the long series of their childish holidays and see in their memory always a different landscape—chalk downs or Swiss mountains; a blue and sunny sea or the grey, ever-troubled fringe of the ocean; heathery moors under the cloud with far away a patch of sunlight on the hills, golden as happiness and, like happiness, remote, precarious, impermanent, or the untroubled waters of Como, the cypresses and the Easter roses.