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The Twins and their mother were not the only busy people about, however, for there were two hundred other peons beside Pancho who worked on the hacienda, and each one had a little cabin where he lived with his family. There were other vaqueros besides Pancho.
The silence was broken by the sound of voices talking the jargon of peons, I thought and I remembered that I was alone, and driving across a lonely part of the city. The voices seemed to be approaching down Powell Street, even now perhaps under the very convent walls. They sounded loud and jovial. "Can't you turn into the sand-lot, and make a cross-cut to Mason Street?" I whispered to the driver.
The produce of Mount Pleasant was so valued at both Rosario and Buenos Ayres that the demand, at most remunerative prices, far exceeded the supply. Additions had been made to the number of peons, and the farm presented quite an animated appearance. The two years which had elapsed since the Hardys left England had effected a considerable change in their appearance.
And we've given them steady jobs and a hundred and fifty centavos a a day, and here they are yelling for our blood." "Only the half breeds," Davies corrected. "You know what I mean," Wemple replied. "The only peons we've lost are those that have been run off or shot." The attack on the door ceasing, they returned upstairs.
Jumping over the bales of silk, he swung over his head a matchlock he had seized from one of his peons, and brought it down with a horizontal sweep. Two of the Bengalis among the crowd of lathiwallahs, who were hanging back out of reach of the boatmen's pikes, were swept off the cart.
Before ten o'clock the adobe wall of the patio was warm enough to permit lingering vacqueros and idle peons to lean against it, and the exposed annexe was filled with sharp, resinous odors from the oozing sap of unseasoned "redwood" boards, warped and drying in the hot sunshine.
Both Bucky and his friend were familiar with the manners of the country, so that they felt at home among the narrow adobe streets, the lounging, good-natured peons, and the imitation Moorish architecture. They found rooms at a quiet, inconspicuous hotel, and began making their plans for an immediate departure in the event that they succeeded in their object.
My only idea was to get hold. He did not exist for me. The leather-covered bottle was the only real thing in the world. I was completely insane. I heard a faint detonation, and Manuel got up quickly from the sill. The flask was out of my reach. There were more popping sounds of shots fired, away on the plain. The peons were attacking an outpost of the Lugareños.
"The racial impulses which I observed cropping out in my father first Irish, then Spanish and a similar observance of the raised impulses of the peons of this country, all of whom are Indian, with a faint admixture of Spanish blood always interested me. I agree with Pope that 'the proper study of mankind is man. I find it most interesting." "For instance?" Parker queried.
Then he turned to the engineer, who was standing beside the truck, surrounded by excited peons. "How did it happen?" "I had my hand on the throttle when I got the order to go ahead, and let her make a stroke or two, reckoning the guard-rail would snub up the car. I heard the wheels clip and slammed the link-gear over, because it looked as if she wasn't going to stop.
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