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Every ten minutes since their return to the estancia, he has been upon it, gazing out in the same way, and for the self-same purpose. Still, as yet, he observes nothing to add to his apprehensions, already keen enough. No living thing much less human being stirs over the wide expanse of green grassy plain.
The only mystery still unsolved in that ruinous estancia was Don Hilario, who locked up the wine and was called master with bitter irony by Ramona, and who had thought it necessary to apologise to me for depriving me of his precious company that evening.
And as for the bastes, sure and it's the quietest bastes they are, and niver thought of running away since the day they were born." So Sarah took her place without uneasiness, and the others started at a hand canter for Mr. Percy's estancia. While at Mr. Thompson's both Mrs.
And so ends my snake-story, which is perhaps not very interesting; but it is true, and therefore has one advantage over all other snake-stories told by travellers. Before leaving the magistrate's estancia I had made up my mind to return by the shortest route, and as quickly as possible, to Montevideo; and that morning, mounted on a well-rested horse, I covered a great deal of ground.
The plain at that place was covered with a dense growth of cardoon-thistle or wild artichoke, and leaving the estancia house in our trap, we followed the cattle tracks as there was no road on that side.
This was the estancia called La Tapera, with whose owner we also had friendly relations during all the years we lived in that district. The owner was Don Gregorio Gandara, a native, and like our nearest English neighbour, Mr. Royd, an enthusiast, and was also like him in being the husband of a fat indolent wife who kept parrots and other pet animals, and the father of two daughters.
He laughed softly to himself as he saw a flicker of light in the window that looked towards the track, when at last he drew near the little estancia house. It was like Toffy to remember to put a lamp where he could see it!
With such puzzling military questions on his mind, the remainder of that day's journey was not equal to the first part, and even Quashy, the sympathetic, failed to interest him! The estancia, previously referred to by the colonel, stood on a slight eminence surrounded by the grove of algaroba-trees from which it derived its name.
The Estancia Canada Seca Low lands and floods Don Anastacio, a gaucho exquisite A greatly respected man Poor relations Don Anastacio a pig-fancier Narrow escape from a pig Charm of the low green lands The flower called macachina A sweet-tasting bulb Beauty of the green flower-sprinkled turf A haunt of the golden plover The Bolas My plover-hunting experience Rebuked by a gaucho A green spot, our playground in summer and lake in winter The venomous toad-like Ceratophrys Vocal performance of the toad-like creature We make war on them The great lake battle and its results.
As night came on before we arrived at our journey's end, we slept at a miserable little hovel inhabited by the poorest people. The extreme though rather formal courtesy of our host and hostess, considering their grade of life, was quite delightful. Arrived at an estancia on the Berquelo belonging to a very hospitable Englishman, to whom I had a letter of introduction from my friend Mr. Lumb.
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