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After all, there are many others young "hacendados," employes of the mines, and a few merchant dandies of the town. Her choice may be some one of these. Quien sabe? Let us on through the crowd! We see the soldiers of the garrison, with tinkling spurs and long trailing sabres, mingling fraternally with the serape-clad tradesmen, the gambucinos, and rancheros of the valley.
Besides these grand people there were employes of the mines of less note, clerks of the comerciantes, young farmers of the valley, gambucinos, vaqueros, ciboleros, and even "leperos" of the town, shrouded in their cheap serapes. A motley throng was the fandango. The music consisted of a bandolon, a harp, and fiddle, and the dances were the waltz, the bolero, and the coona.
There's not a blade of grass to see; and the sun sets more red over that country than I have seen it anywhere blood-red and angry. It is fine." "You do not want to go back there again?" she stammered out. He laughed a little. "No. That's the blamed gold country. It gave me the shivers sometimes to look at it and we were a big lot of men together, mind; but these Gambucinos wandered alone.
"Learned it in Mexico in Sonora." He talked easily. "It is the song of the Gambucinos. You don't know? The song of restless men. Nothing could hold them in one place not even a woman. You used to meet one of them now and again, in the old days, on the edge of the gold country, away north there beyond the Rio Gila. I've seen it.
The "gambucinos," and young men of the town, the smaller tradespeople, are very similarly attired; but those of higher class the officials and "comerciantes" are clad in broad-cloth jackets and pantaloons, not exactly of European cut, but approaching it a sort of compromise between Paris fashions and the native costume of the country. Another costume may be noticed, worn by many of the crowd.
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