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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Sammie goin' to have a 'mato store," he said when the two Blake children had sold all their things, and were moving their empty boxes and door into the barn. "Me goin' to sell 'matoes." "I wonder what he will do?" said Mab. "Maybe he'll take a lot of things from his father's garden," suggested Hal. "We better tell him not to." "Well, Mr.
He had clothed Mato, the bear, in one of his father's suits as a great medicine-man. Waho, the wolf, was painted up as a brave; and the young buffalo calf was attired in one of his mother's gowns. The boy acted as chief and master of ceremonies. The savage mother watched him with undisguised pride, mingled with sorrow.
Every Indian was alive to the possibilities of the occasion, for it is well known that Mato, or grizzly bear, alone among animals is given the rank of a warrior, so that whoever conquers him may wear an eagle feather. "Woo! woo!" the warriors shouted, as they maneuvered to draw him into the open plain. He answered with hoarse growls, threatening a rider who had ventured too near.
But on his arrival, Spendio and Mato, to extinguish any hope these mutineers might have had of making peace with Carthage, and so leave them no alternative but war, persuaded them that their best course was to put Hasdrubal, with all the other Carthaginian citizens whom they had taken prisoners, to death.
The slave hunters in fact belonged to the dregs of society, and we shall not be far wrong in assuming that the man with the cryptogram was a fitting comrade for his fellow "capitaes do mato." Torres for that was his name unlike the majority of his companions, was neither half-breed, Indian, nor negro.
The grizzly came on with teeth exposed, and the doe-mother in her flight came between him and the tree, giving a series of indignant snorts as she ran, and so distracted Mato from his object of attack; but only for a few seconds then on he came! "Desist, O brave Mato! It does not become a great medicine-man to attack a helpless woman with a burden upon her back!"
They were large, ripe ones, and he must have picked them from his father's vines, since he could not get through the fence into the Blake gardens. "Oh, Sammie!" cried Mab, running out to him, "What are you doing with those tomatoes?" "Sammie goin' have a 'mato store an' sell 'em like you an' Hal. You want come my 'mato store?" he asked, looking up and smiling.
But arrows were many and well-aimed, and in a few minutes the great and warlike Mato lay dead at the foot of the tree. The men ran forward and counted their coups on him, just as when an enemy is fallen. Then they looked at one another and placed their hands over their mouths as the young girl descended the-tree with a fawn bound upon her back. "So that was the bait!" they cried.
But the robbery did not profit the guilty man in the long run, for, a little time afterward, he was robbed by those whom he had helped to commit the crime. Penniless, and unable to enter Tijuco again, Ortega fled away to the provinces in the north of Brazil, to those districts of the Upper Amazon where the capitaes da mato are to be found.
<*the secretary of the treasury of the goddess Neith, or Athena as Herodotus calls her: ho grammatiste:s to:n hiro:n xre:mato:n te:s Athe:naie:s> treasury at Sais, in Egypt.
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