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Instead of his circus, they are to have a bull-fight not an ordinary bull-fight with sick horses, but a buffalo-and-tiger fight. I would not miss it" Two or three persons ran to the opposite corner, and commenced striking at something with their canes. Others followed.
No; it is a vicarious courage. They never take part in a bull-fight by any chance; but it is remarked that they sit at one unshaken by those tremors and apprehensions for the combatants to which the male spectator feeble-minded wretch! is subject. Nothing can exceed the resolution with which they have been known to send forth men to battle: as some witty dog says,
I begged her pardon, but it was not till three days later that she would kiss me. "'There is a fête at Cordova, she said, when we were friends again. 'I am going to see it, then I shall find out the people who carry money with them and tell you. "I let her go, but when a peasant told me there was a bull-fight at Cordova, I set off like a madman to the spot.
They had got old Clover, the cart-horse, but she would do nothing but graze, so we decided not to use her in the bull-fight, but to let her be the Elephant. The Elephant's is a nice quiet part, and she was quite big enough for a young one. Then the black pig could be Learned, and the other two could be something else. They had also got the goat; he was tethered to a young tree.
They form into pageants for you, and fill the baths and the palaces, but never crowd the Coliseum for the dreadful contests, unless, maybe, for an occasional bull-fight some great, horrid, big bull which would be killed at market to-morrow at any rate and even that is as you please.
Away they went, and having got the poles were about to go home, when Demi unluckily said to Tommy, who was on Toby with a long rod in his hand, "You look like the picture of the man in the bull-fight, only you haven't got a red cloth, or pretty clothes on." "I'd like to see one; there's old Buttercup in the big meadow, ride at her, Tom, and see her run," proposed Dan, bent on mischief.
In the finale of the act the Toreador's song is again heard as he disappears in the distance after the quarrel with Don José. The last act is a hurly-burly of the bull-fight, the Toreador's taking march, the stormy duet between Don José and Carmen, and the tragic dénouement in which the Carmen motive is repeated.
As in a bull-fight, so here my sympathy was naturally with the animal, which managed to bite a dog severely in the side and shook another vigorously by the tail. Finally some young boys gave it a merciful death with spears. A woman blian died after an illness of five days, and the next forenoon a coffin was made from an old prahu.
What they were going to do I could not tell, and I did not wait to see. The horse was one, doubtless, which unhappily had survived last Sunday's bull-fight, and was being horribly patched up, terribly stimulated by agony to expend its last spark of vitality in this.
Thus in a small way the cock-fight is as cruel and as demoralizing as that other national game, the terrible bull-fight, indigenous to Spain and her colonies. Cuba has justly been called the garden of the world, perpetual summer smiling upon its shores, and its natural wealth and possibilities baffling even the imagination.
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