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With one hand he rolled the cigarette; while wetting the flap with his garrulous tongue, he gazed out upon the San Gregorio as one who looks beyond a lifted veil. He answered his own question. "Well, señor and you, señora! I tell you. Por nada forgeeve; please, I speak the Spanish for notheeng, those boy he poke weeth hee's thumb the rib of me."

When I am twenty-eight años my oldes' boy already hee's bust one bronco'." Here Pablo paused to scratch his head. "But now," he resumed, "by the blood of those devil I know sometheeng!" "What do you know, you squidgy-nosed old idol, you?" Parker demanded, with difficulty repressing his laughter.

He continued: "He peench queeck like that. He don' know hee's goin' for peench hees all time queeck like that he don' theenk. But after those boy hee's peench the cheen of those girl, hee's got red in the face like black-bird's weeng. 'Oh, he say, 'I am sky-blue eedete-ot, an' he run away queeck before he forget heemself an' peench those girl some more." John Parker turned gravely to his wife.

You wo'not put me, sir, together againe. Cou. I wo'not take the paines. Why do you smile now? De. At your conceite to thinke I was a Clock: I am a watch, I never strike. Hee's valiant. Cou. You have pretty colours there; are these your Mistresses? De. If you did know the mistery you would applaud 'em. Have you read Livre de blason? What meane you? Cou. I will bestow 'em, sir, upon some forehorse?

For long time those boy hee's pretty parteecular. Even those so beautiful señorita, 'Nita Sepulvida, she don' rope those boy like you rope it, señorita." And with the license of an old and trusted servant, the sage of Palomar favored her with a knowing wink. "He knows he knows!" the girl thought. "What must he think of me! Oh, dear, oh, dear! if he mentions the subject to me I shall die."