round.

For your dressing use the juice of a lemon mixed with that of an
orange, sweetened to taste, into which you work, a drop at a time, four
tablespoons of the best Palermo olive oil. If the salad is large more
oil and more juice should be used.

To get the full deliciousness of this salad, the fruit must have been
on ice, and the dressing made in a bowl imbedded in cracked ice, so that
when ready to blend both are ice-cold, and must be served immediately.

Gigantic specimens of fruit-bearing Cacti can be found all over the
Sunland Desert near to the city, but they are not possessed of the full
flavor of the cultivated old mission growths, so that it is well worth
your while to make a trip to the nearest of these for the fruit with
which to prepare this salad. And if, as you gather it, you should see
a vision of a white head, a thin, ascetic, old face, a lean figure
trailing a brown robe, slender white hands clasping a heavy cross;
if you should hear the music of worship ascending from the throats of
Benedictine fathers leading a clamoring choir of the blended voices of
Spaniard, Mexican, and Indian, combining with the music of the bells and
the songs of the mocking birds, nest making among the Tunas, it will be
good for your soul in the line of purging it from selfishness, since in
this day we are not asked to give all of life to the service of others,
only a reasonable part of it.

Linda read this over, working in changes here and there, then she picked
up her pencil and across the top of her sheet indicated an open sky
with scarcely a hint of cloud. Across the bottom she outlined a bit
of Sunland Desert she well remembered, in the foreground a bed of
flat-leaved nopal, flowering red and yellow, the dark red prickly pears,
edible, being a near relative of the fruits she had used in her salad.
After giving the prickly pear the place of honor to the left, in higher
growth she worked in the slender, cylindrical, jointed stems of the
Cholla, shading the flowers a paler, greenish yellow. On the right,
balancing the Cholla, she drew the oval, cylindrical columns of the
hedgehog cactus, and the color touch of the big magenta flowers blended
exquisitely with the color she already had used. At the left, the length
of her page, she drew a gigantic specimen of Opuntia Tuna, covered with
flowers, and well-developed specimens of the pears whose coloring ran
into the shades of the hedgehog cactus.

She was putting away her