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"Hyar, my little muchacha! vamos, vamos, ter dance! Mucho bueno! Mucho bueno? Will ye?" This is from a great rough fellow of six feet and over, addressed to a trim little poblana. "Mucho bueno, Senor Americano!" replies the lady. "Hooraw for you! Come along! Let's licker fust! You're the gal for my beaver. What'll yer drink? Agwardent or vino?" "Copitita de vino, senor."
"Ish!" cautions the other voice; "if he be still asleep, we must not wake him. Don Prospero said that. Step lightly, muchacha!" Hamersley is awake, with eyes wide open, and consciousness quite restored. But at this moment something an instinct of dissembling causes him to counterfeit sleep; and he lies still, with shut eyelids.
Yes, Diego; I had but to stretch out my hand thus, and that foolish fire-brand of a heretic muchacha would have vanished from Todos Santos forever. I could have left you in your fool's paradise, and one morning you would have found her gone. I should have condoled with you, and consoled you, and you would have forgotten her as you did the other.
In many instances they allowed gross brutalities, perpetrated by the rich on the poor, or by the strong on the weak, to go unpunished. The following case furnished me by an American teacher is typical of what has occurred only too often: "On another occasion, I met the brother of my house muchacha, a boy about eight.
"I'm a pretty looking old rhinoceros to be gettin' stuck on a kid, ain't I, 'Tonia?" said he. "Not verree good thing," agreed Antonia, sagely, "for too much old man to likee /muchacha/." "You bet it ain't," said Dry Valley, grimly. "It's dum foolishness; and, besides, it hurts."
"I say, my little darlint," said he, winking, and touching her lightly under the ribs with his outstretched palm, "my little moochacha that's what they call thim isn't it, Raowl?" "Muchacha? oh yes!" "Well, thin, my purty little moochacha, cudn't yez? ye know what I mane cudn't yez? Och! ye know well enough only a little jist a mouthful to take the cowld taste aff the wather."
"Barbara," said he, "this is not conversation calculated to interest the strange cavaliers; hold your peace, or go aside with the muchacha." In the morning he refused any remuneration for his hospitality. "I am a caballero," said he, "even as yourselves. It is not my custom to admit people into my house for the sake of lucre. I received you because you were benighted and the posada distant."
You and Jim, that darned innocent old cuss, robbing mails and cattle ranches. It is a real scoop up for me, you bet. I'd heern of bush-ranging in Australia, but I never reckoned on their bein' men like you and Jim. So the muchacha went back on yer snakes alive! I kinder expected it. I reckon you're bound to git. 'Yes, Bill, sharp's the word.
It seems he was not a vacquero, a companion of the padrone on lands that had been his own before the Americanos robbed him of it, but a servant, a lackey of muchachas, an attendant on children to amuse them, or why not? an appendage to his daughter's state! Ah, Jesus Maria! such a state! such a muchacha!
She returned their visit at Los Gatos, and there made the formal acquaintance of Don José's grandmother, a lady who still regarded the decrepit Concha as a giddy muchacha, and who herself glittered as with the phosphorescence of refined decay.
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