21.   Halfway down the hill, Nancy Palacios, her husband and two daughters live in a one-room house with a dirt floor.

22.   He also offered cement floors to people with dirt floors.

23.   Her four children scamper on the dirt floor.

24.   Her home is a fly-infested shack with dirt floors and walls patched together from scraps of wood.

25.   However, many huts still have dirt floors.

26.   I ducked my head to enter the small doorway and sat on the blanket she had spread out on the dirt floor.

27.   In other cases, marks on dirt floors have shown how wolves have crept through doorways and carried off their prey.

28.   In fact, while some of the homes are shanties with leaky roofs and even dirt floors, many others have been painstakingly improved over the years.

29.   In the next room, which has only a partial roof and a dirt floor, he waved toward three chained men.

30.   In the adobe scriptorium at Christ in the Desert the rough-hewn tables sit on a hard-packed dirt floor and a wooden crucifix hangs on one wall.