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Of the former, one was heard inquiring "Why hasn't he come up before? He could have done so if he had wished." "Carrambo! yes," added another. "He might have done so. He only hung back to give the others a trial. He knew none of them could throw that bull. Mira!" The speaker's conjecture was, no doubt, correct. It was plain, at first sight, that this rider could easily overtake the bull.
He walked back and forth for some minutes in an excited manner, and then, bursting into a loud laugh, he cried out, "Carrambo, comrade! you are a tactician! The great Conde himself would not have shown such strategy. Santisima Virgen! it is the very master-stroke of design; and I promise you, camarado, it shall have speedy execution." "Why delay? Why not set about it at once?"
Sure-shot's reply was characteristic. It was also in broken Spanish, which the ranger had picked up during our campaign, on the Rio Grande. Translated, it ran thus: "I'm only telling him how I'm about to get square with him. Carrambo! great chief! when I was a soldier in the army, yon fellow was my capitano, and gave me a flogging.
"Darnationed likely squaw!" remarked one. "Who air she, old timber-toes?" inquired he, addressing himself to the guide. "Squaw Utah gal," replied the Mexican in his trapper patois. Pointing to me, he continued: "She sister to hunter-chief she hunter too kill bighorn, buffalo, deer. Carrambo! si! She grand cazadora!" "Oh! durn yer kezedora.
They used to practise it with their arrows, and for mere sport. Now that they have taken to guns, I suppose they combine instruction with amusement, as the books say. Carrambo! what cruel brutes they are! They have no more humanity than a grizzly bear. God help the poor wretch that falls into their clutches! Their captive women they treat with a barbarity unknown among other tribes.
After dinner, Tom would have given worlds to have beaten a retreat to his own ship, as several officers came into the saloon while coffee was handed round, and he dreaded each moment that Jocko would disgrace himself and the bubble would burst; but no, there the admiral, would keep him, talking all the time, and directing most of his attention towards the pseudo "Senor Carrambo," for whose benefit Tom had to translate, or pretend to translate, what was said.
Those of our party who had escaped would return at once to the town where troops were stationed at the time. This explained to me the hurried movements the Indians were making. Carrambo, senor! I had not much opportunity to reflect on the chances of our being rescued by our friends. I saw what the savages intended for me; and that was sufficient to occupy all my thoughts.
"Maldito sea!" continued the trapper, taking the wooden leg from his waist, and hammering the hat with it against a stone "maldito sombrero! but for that accursed invention, we poor trappers wouldn't be as we are now. Carrambo! it's fetched beaver down to a plew a plug; while only ten years ago, we could get six pesos the skin! Only think of that! Carrai-i-i!"
It is not often I speak of the affair, though it is seldom out of my thoughts, I have tried to forget it. Carrambo! how could I, with a thing like that constantly recalling it to my memory?" The speaker again pointed to his deformed foot with a smile of bitter significance. "Por Dios, cavallero! I think of it often enough; but just now more than common.
Spoils indeed. There is no living in Paris now. But one rich American have I garroted in a fortnight. "Bah! those Democrats. They have ruined the country. With their income tax and their free trade, they have destroyed the millionaire business. Carrambo! Diable! D n it!" "Hist!" suddenly says Chamounix the rag-picker, who is worth 20,000,000 francs, "some one comes!"
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