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Looking out of the window, we saw two men fighting in the midst of a crowd. 'Ah! exclaimed the cattle-dealer, with a sonorous chuckle, 'that ought to give you an idea of the capacities of the inhabitants. Then, entering into the spirit of the battle, he shouted: 'Leave them alone leave them alone! It is not men who are fighting; it is the juice of the grape!
Remember me to your husband and tell him, his life may be valuable; but ours are not wisps of straw." "Tell him, too," cried a cattle-dealer, who did not yet seem to have been specially injured by the general distress, "tell him oxen can be slaughtered, the more the better; but Leyden citizens "
Not that our Val is bad. He isn't; but if he had money he could buy a ranch, or something." Our Val, as Jen and her father called him, was a lad of twenty-two, one year younger than Jen. He was prairie-rider, cattle-dealer, scout, cowboy, happy-go-lucky vagrant, a splendid Bohemian of the plains.
There was no sort of contract between us, nor any promise of remuneration; I only rode by sufferance in that company. I felt, too, that he was right: it would be very difficult for any Englishman drilled or undrilled to disguise himself as a Virginia cattle-dealer, so that keen native eyes could not detect the travestie.
The cattle-dealer did not finish his sentence, for Herr Aquanus had seen from the Angulus what was happening to the burgomaster's wife, came out of the tavern into the street, and stepped into the midst of the malcontents. "For shame!" he cried. "To assail a respectable lady in the street! Are these Leyden manners?
Considering his age, and all the running he had done in return for board and lodging, I thought his diplomacy excusable; but the cattle-dealer used strong language to express his loathing of such depravity and ingratitude in a dog old enough to be serious, and on which so much kindness had been lavished.
But he managed to escape to Rouen, and poured out his grief to the Archbishop there. Then he was sent here. The poor man was punished quite enough by being made to live in this hole of a place. I heard of the girl afterwards. She had married a cattle-dealer, and was very happy.
The custom of driving cattle through or between fires on May Day or the eve of May Day persisted in Ireland down to a time within living memory. Thus Sir John Rhys was informed by a Manxman that an Irish cattle-dealer of his acquaintance used to drive his cattle through fire on May Day so as to singe them a little, since he believed that it would preserve them from harm.
The cattle-dealer did not finish his sentence, for Herr Aquanus had seen from the Angulus what was happening to the burgomaster's wife, came out of the tavern into the street, and stepped into the midst of the malcontents. "For shame!" he cried. "To assail a respectable lady in the street! Are these Leyden manners?
Presently Jost said, 'We will double our bets, Dietrich, and perhaps the luck will turn. Dietrich, only groaned. Then the red-haired fellow said, 'Come, let's go down and play cards with the cattle-dealer, and take a glass of something that will raise your spirits." "Dietrich never used to gamble; nor to drink when he was not thirsty;" cried Judith angrily. "Pooh!
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