Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 20, 2025
Prisons, barracks and other buildings were scattered about. Beyond the walls was a small group of wretched jacals or huts in which some Mexicans lived. Water from the San Antonio flowed in ditches through the mission.
On the bank of a resaca -a former bed of the Rio Grande stood the house, an adobe structure, square, white, and unprotected from the sun by shrub or tree. Behind it were some brush corrals and a few scattered mud jacals, in which lived the help. Ricardo had just risen from a siesta when his two visitors rode up, and he made them welcome with the best he had.
Their own batteries resumed the cannonade, while their sheltered riflemen sent in the bullets faster and faster. Crockett tapped the barrel of Betsy significantly. "The work has got to be done with this old lady an' others like her," he said. "We must get rid of them jacals." "How?" asked Ned. "You come along with me an' I'll show you," said Crockett.
The following morning, a Sunday, after much good advice, the kindly Captain bade us a reluctant farewell, and led his troops down-river toward home, while our little party of six headed westward up-river. Near noon we sighted the Seminole village, and shortly entered it, a close cluster of low jacals built of poles and mud.
If it had been just one time, these Mexicans can't tell good money from bad; but this little yaller rascal belongs to a gang of counterfeiters, I know. This is the first time I've been able to catch him doing the trick. He's got a girl down there in them Mexican jacals on the river bank. I seen her one day when I was watching him. She's as pretty as a red heifer in a flower bed."
This was anything but pleasant, and they had to pick their way with great care in the darkness, and even then their steeds often refused to budge, so prickly were the plants. It was almost morning when they arrived in sight of the jacals, or huts, which dotted the outskirts of the city.
"I shot him," said the district attorney, "with Exhibit A of your counterfeiting case. Lucky thing for me and somebody else that it was as bad money as it was! It sliced up into slugs very nicely. Say, Kil, can't you go down to the jacals and find where that Mexican girl lives? Miss Derwent wants to know." At 8 A. M. it lay on Giuseppi's news-stand, still damp from the presses.
The Mexican contingent were not forgotten by master or mistress, and the ranch supplies in the warehouse were drawn upon, delicacies as well as staples, not only for the jacals about headquarters but also for the outlying ranchitas.
The drawer stuck, and he yanked at it savagely as a man will. It came out of the bureau, and bruised both his shins as a drawer will. An old, folded yellow letter without an envelope fell from somewhere probably from where it had lodged in one of the upper drawers. Ranse took it to the lamp and read it curiously. Then he took his hat and walked to one of the Mexican /jacals/.
In twenty minutes they heard the clatter of the horses' hoofs: in five minutes more the grey plugs dashed out of the thicket, whickering for oats and drawing the light wagon behind them like a toy. From the jacals came a cry of: "El Amo! El Amo! " Four Mexican youths raced to unharness the greys. The cowpunchers gave a yell of greeting and delight.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking