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TIERRA TEMPLADA. the temperate region. TORO, a bull. TORTILLAS, thin cakes made of Indian corn, resembling oat-cakes; see p. 33. TRAPICHE, a sugar-mill. ULEI, see Hule. VAQUERO, cow-herd.
These six should be renounced like a splitting vessel in the sea, viz., a preceptor that cannot expound the scriptures, a priest that is illiterate, a king that is unable to protect, a wife that speaketh disagreeable words, a cow-herd that doth not wish to go to the fields, and a barber that wisheth to renounce a village for the woods.
Then Killian opened the case in which lay the two marionettes, and looked them over to see that they were in working order. His partner took up the odd number, and began practising it; but Killian's attention all went to the little king cow-herd and his queen. He fondled them gently with his hands, and as he looked at them his heart went up into the mountains to pray for his dear Grendel.
The cattle are managed here, as in California, on horseback and with the help of the lasso; and he who on our Pacific coast is called a vaquero, or cow-herd, is here known as a "Spaniol." Such a native man is pointed out to you as an excellent Spaniol.
Gruner of Jena speaks of a man by the name of Goldschmidt, in the environs of Weimar, who developed a depraved appetite for human flesh. He was married at twenty-seven, and for twenty-eight years exercised his calling as a cow-herd. Nothing extraordinary was noticed in him, except his rudeness of manner and his choleric and gross disposition.
She had chatted with two girls who were fetching water from the well, and hinted something about an approaching wedding. An old man had seen her at the outskirts of the village; and a cow-herd urchin thought but "wasna sure" that he had seen her entering the road leading through the wood; and that was all.
People take care of their surfaces and varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil.
"The naked herring?" cried the jealous creature, "the naked herring?" Since that time the sole's mouth has been at one side for a punishment. 173 The Bittern and the Hoopoe "Where do you like best to feed your flocks?" said a man to an old cow-herd. "Here, sir, where the grass is neither too rich nor too poor, or else it is no use." "Why not?" asked the man.
"The middle piece is the two and five, making the 'unlike seven;" Yuean Yang observed. "The 'spinning damsel' star meets the 'cow-herd' on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh moon," Miss Hsueeh said. "Together they form: 'Erh Lang strolls on the five mounds;" Yuean Yang continued. "Mortals cannot be happy as immortals," Mrs. Hsueeh rejoined.
"Canst thou tell me," said Childe Rowland to the horse-herd, "where the King of Elfland's Dark Tower is?" "I cannot tell thee," said the horse-herd, "but go on a little further and thou wilt come to the cow-herd, and he, maybe, can tell thee."
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