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And good now, tell me why you are leaving your larder so full here? Do you think I or my family can use broken victuals? What, have you no better employment for your rounds of sequestrated beef than to leave them behind you when you shift your quarters?" "So please your honour," said Tomkins, "it may be that you desire not the flesh of beeves, of rams, or of goats.
In order to arouse the Emperor's appreciation of the abundance and productiveness of the island, this "refreshment" included a hundred beeves, two hundred sheep, hundreds of pairs of chicken and peacocks, hundreds of cuarteras of oil and flour, hundreds of cuarterones of wine, more hundreds of cuarterolas of cheese, capers, olives, twenty bottles of arrayan, and four quintales of white wax.
On the first day they drove along with them a number of beeves but, finding that the cattle impeded the march, they left them behind on the mountain side. Their provisions thereafter were wild game and the small supply each man carried of mixed corn meal and maple sugar. For drink, they had the hill streams. They passed upward between Roan and Yellow mountains to the top of the range.
The country which now lies in quiet beauty here was ravaged. Beeves, sheep, and grain were taken; the mills and factories of Staunton were burned, also the railroad bridges and telegraph wires were destroyed.
"Surely, son Michael," said the abbot, "you do not mean to insinuate that the noble earl will turn freebooter?" "A man must live," said brother Michael, "earl or no. If the law takes his rents and beeves without his consent, he must take beeves and rents where he can get them without the consent of the law. This is the lex talionis."
There was something about the days of the open range that left its impression on animals, as these two herds were as uniform in build as deer, and I question if the same country to-day has as heavy beeves. Three days were lost in reaching Coryell County, where our outfits were in waiting and twenty others were at work gathering cattle.
Other tribes, that but a few generations ago shook the infant colonies with terror, or even dared to stand across the path of the Republic, and for a time flung a shadow as of eclipse over its destiny, are now represented upon the annuity or feeding-lists of the United States by a few score of diseased wretches, who hang about the settlements, begging and stealing where they can, and quarrelling like dogs over the entrails of the beeves that are slaughtered for them.
Popes and councils alike prohibit it the honour of the living, and the weal of departed souls, alike forbid it it may not be. To force, if he dare use it, we must surrender; but never by our consent should we see the goods of the church plundered, with as little scruple as he would drive off a herd of English beeves.
We arrived early the following morning at Mfuto, the rendezvous of the Arab army. A halt was ordered the next day, in order to make ourselves strong by eating the beeves, which we freely slaughtered. The personnel of our army was as follows: Sheikh Sayd bin Salim . . . . . . 25 half caste " Khamis bin Abdullah . . . . 250 slaves " Thani bin Abdullah . . . . 80 "
And as the men came up they saw, scattered over the adjacent prairie, the peacefully grazing beeves which were to be their charge. "A pretty bunch," observed Arizona. "Yes, and a pretty place for a raid." At that moment the doings of the raiders were uppermost in Tresler's mind. Then they proceeded to take possession.
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