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Updated: June 5, 2025
As they reached the Velasco Museum, El Mariane said: "Let's see if we can't play a dirty trick on that damned Cojo." "Yes. Come on." By a side path they climbed back to the spot where they had been on the previous afternoon.
"Man! Let's get in until the rain stops." "Impossible." "Why? Are Rubia and Chata inside?" "What do you care if they are?" "Shall we give those hayseeds a scare?" asked one of the ragamuffins, whose ears were covered by long black locks. "Just try it and see," growled Cojo, seizing a rock. "Come on to the Observatory," said another. "We won't get wet there."
Cojo, another, had defended his master against the insurgents until he was obliged by ill usage to take refuge among them; and he still bore upon his wrist, when Stedman saw him, a silver band, with the inscription, "True to the Europeans." In dealing with wrongs like these, Mr.
"They're Rubia and Chata with a couple of hayseeds," said one of the gamins. "They're running to the cave," added another. The boys reached the top of the hill; before the entrance to the cave, which was nothing but a hole dug out of the sand, sat a one-legged man smoking a pipe. "We're going in," announced one of the urchins to Cojo. "You can't," he replied. "And why not?" "Because you can't."
It chanced to be a smooth, grassy sward; and protected by my leathern jaqueta and calzoneros, I was less injured than one might expect. It was my ankle that suffered most for the loop soon slipped down below the joint, and nearly drew the bone out of its socket. That, senor, is how I came to be `un cojo' as you see."
"There's no danger," replied the other, "if you keep from the road. Your people have already reached El Plan, and are preparing to attack the Pass of the Cerro. `El Cojo, they say, has twenty thousand men to defend it." During this dialogue, which was carried on in whispers, I had noticed the little padre shifting about uneasily in his seat.
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