Crossword-Solution: PULPER 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The cherry coffee is gathered by coolies at the rate of two bushels each per diem, and is cleared from the flesh by passing through a pulper, a machine consisting of cylindrical copper graters, which tear the flesh from the berry and leave the coffee in its second covering of parchment, The coffee is then exposed to a partial fermentation by being piled for some hours in a large heap.

The big vulgar shop-keeper and trader, Fitch, is long since dead; Tom Wrightington, who kept the rival pulpería, fell from his horse when drunk, and was found nearly eaten up by coyotes; and I can scarce find a person whom I remember.

Several blue jackets were reeling about among the houses, which showed that the pulperías had been well patronized.

Under the piazza of a pulpería two men were seated, decked out with knots of ribbons and bouquets, and playing the violin and the Spanish guitar.

Having returned to the town, we saw a crowd collected in the square before the principal pulpería, and, riding up, found that all these people-- men, women, and children-- had been drawn together by a couple of bantam cocks.