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"Our job is to ride to the Ortez rancho and get that outfit movin' up this way." "Goin' to turn the cattle over to 'em?" queried Pete. "Yes and that quick they won't know they got 'em. It's a big deal, if she goes through. If she don't, it's like to be the finish of the Olla." "Meanin' if the T-Bar-T and the Concho gits busy, there's like to be some smoke blowin' down this way?" "The same.
Headed south again, he had just passed a clump of chaparral when up from the draw came a tall, muscular cowboy, riding a big horse and a fast one, thought Pete. "Evenin'," drawled the cowboy a slow-speaking Texan, who was evidently waiting for Pete to explain his presence. "How! Is this here the Olla ranch?" "One end of her." "I'm lookin' for the foreman." "What name did you say?" "I didn't say."
There is nothing in the world less nourishing than an olla podrida; to canons, or rectors of colleges, or peasants' weddings with your ollas podridas, but let us have none of them on the tables of governors, where everything that is present should be delicate and refined; and the reason is, that always, everywhere and by everybody, simple medicines are more esteemed than compound ones, for we cannot go wrong in those that are simple, while in the compound we may, by merely altering the quantity of the things composing them.
"I have been listening to the cooks quarrelling over the olla, Roberto. But what can my poor Manuel say when your Irishwoman attacks him. Listen to her! 'Take your dirty stew aff the fire then! Shure it isn't fit for a Christian to ate at all!" "I hope it is, Maria, for we have a visitor to-night." "Who, then, my love?" "Mr. Houston." "Sam Houston? Holy Virgin of Guadalupe preserve us!
Such alternations made our voyage a charming olla. We had the placid glide, the fleet dash, the wild career, the pause, the landing, the agreeable interlude of a portage, and the unburdened stampede along-shore. Thus we won our way, or our way wooed us on, until, in early afternoon, a lovely lakelet opened before us.
"Ah!" exclaimed the old woman crossly; "it seems as if I were never to have an hour's quiet, just as all that roaring, greedy lot, with their Mother Morena here and Mother Morena there, and their grumbling at the olla, and their curses and their quarrels, are off, and I think I am going to have a quiet afternoon, then you come in with your twelve hungry wolves."
Craney brought him a cool and dripping canteen and some acetic acid, the best he could do, and had proffered bottled beer, cooled in the big olla and retailed at fifty cents, but Willett sought information rather than sleep, and indirectly inquired as to Case's antecedents.
"While this exchange of names was going on, an old woman came from the house, and delivered some message to Olla, which from the repetition of the words `poe, poe, I conjectured to be a summons to dinner. Mowno leading the way, we now proceeded towards the dwelling.
The sun had almost touched the western sky-line when a solitary rider spurred out from the great gate of the Olla and up to Ortez, who recognized in him one of the young vaqueros that had escaped from Arguilla's guards the preceding night. "Here's our tally." Pete handed Ortez a slip of paper. "Two hundred and three head.
"I," said Don Quixote, "have some little smattering of Italian, and I plume myself on singing some of Ariosto's stanzas; but tell me, senor I do not say this to test your ability, but merely out of curiosity have you ever met with the word pignatta in your book?" "Yes, often," said the author. "And how do you render that in Spanish?" "How should I render it," returned the author, "but by olla?"
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