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Gardner, travelling in pursuit of butterflies and birds, sent home quantities of a Cattleya which he found on the precipitous sides of the Pedro Bonita range, and also on the Gavea, which our sailors call "Topsail" Mountain, or "Lord Hood's Nose." These orchids passed as C. labiata for a while. Paxton congratulated himself and the world in his Flower Garden that the stock was so greatly increased.
Them rocks were rollin' all right, only it was the weatherin' of the cliffs. "An' there under the crags was a gold pocket. "Then I was worse than locoed. I went gold-crazy. I worked like seventeen burros. Bill, I dug a lot of goldbearin' quartz. Bonita watched the trails for me, brought me water. That was how she come to get caught by Pat Hawe an' his guerrillas. Sure!
Gene had stopped drinkin', he'd changed wonderful, was fine an' dandy. It was then he began to pester the life out of me to make me marry Bonita. I was happy, so was she, an' I was some scared of spoilin' it. Bonita had been a little flirt, an' I was afraid she'd get shy of a halter, so I bucked against Gene. But I was all locoed, as it turned out.
Let any one pay a visit to my church, and look at her as she stands there, tan bonita, tan guapita so well dressed and so genteel with such pretty colours, such red and white, and he would scarcely ask me why Maria Santissima should not be adored. Moreover, Don Jorgito mio, this is a church matter and forms an important part of the church system." "And now, with respect to carnal misdemeanours.
They were, for the most part, quitrins, drawn with two horses, one outside the shafts ridden by a calesero in crimson velvet laced with gold and a glazed hat. The quitrins had two wheels, a leather hood strapped back, and held three passengers by means of a small additional seat, called, Andrés explained, la niña bonita, where the prettiest woman was invariably placed.
barring the lantern abaft," roared Osgood, from the deck of the schooner Bonita, which was tossing outside Cape Malabar. "You may sing t'other side of your mouth afore long," bawled back the skipper. "We ain't fur from the Cormorant Rocks; the wind p'r'aps will shove us on the ledge." "What, when we are just going home with full barrels?" "The mackerel may be briled in Tophet for all we know."
She understood his rebuke, she wondered and wavered, but the affront to her pride had been too great, the tumult within her breast had been too startlingly fierce; she could not speak, the moment passed, and with it his brief, rugged splendor of simplicity. "You think I am vile," he said. "You think that about Bonita! And all the time I've been... I could make you ashamed I could tell you "
He was lonely, that was what was the matter with him; that was why he had snapped at the invitation as a bonita strikes at a white rag on a hook. Not since with Joe, at Shelly Hot Springs, with the one exception of the wine he took with the Portuguese grocer, had Martin had a drink at a public bar.
At last came the gun that started off the Snark, the Bonita and the Albacore, which were all of about the same speed. "Our turn next," said Rob, who had previously received his instructions from the committee. "Well, I'm all ready," said Merritt, nervously twisting a grease cup. "Bang!"
In the darkness one night there came to us a little white boat containing three men, one was a pilot to guide us safely through the beautiful Golden Gate; the light on Point Bonita was sighted we were almost home.
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