ABSTRACT
The discourse on letters and sounds which began in the basement of the grocery store on August 6, continued in and around Cobden until the migrants left the area in late October. On Thursday, August 21, a group of fifteen anglos and migrant workers, meeting in Cobden’s Village Hall, collectively produced what they playfully called a diccionario mojado-a “wetback glossary” (see pp. 49ff. below). This chapter narrates events leading from those narrated in the preceding chapter up to and beyond the crucial meeting in the Village Hall, with particular attention to the formal structure of the handwritten texts produced by the developing discourse on letters and sounds.
