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Updated: June 11, 2025
It thus came about that the Spanish colonists on the pampas declined from the state of an agricultural people to that of an exclusively pastoral and hunting one; and later, when the Spanish yoke, as it was called, was shaken off, the incessant throat-cutting wars of the various factions, which were like the wars of "crows and pies," except that knives were used instead of beaks, confirmed and sunk them deeper in their wild and barbarous manner of life.
It should be said in justice that the present Shah has done all he can to stop the torture system, and confine the death-sentence to one of two methods painless and instantaneous throat-cutting and blowing from a gun.
Even the Major was out of spirits, and told Mrs Major that he would after all a great deal rather be at home, than out in such a treacherous, krising, throat-cutting place as Parang. "And a very nice thing to say too," said Mrs Major Sandars, "just too as we are going to bed.
If there is to be any throat-cutting as you seem to hint mine will be there, too, I promise you, and. . . ." He stretched his arms out, glanced at them, shook them a little. "And this pair of arms to take care of it," he added, in his old, careless drawl.
But more closely regarded, it is seen to be no such thing. Your contemporaries, with their mutual throat-cutting, knew very well what they were at. The producers of the nineteenth century were not, like ours, working together for the maintenance of the community, but each solely for his own maintenance at the expense of the community.
He was shut up in the legations, you know, and all the women there were down on him because he wouldn't make the sentries salute them when the men were dead tired with watching. They are charging him with cowardice. There'll never be an end of this backbiting. It's almost as sickening as the throat-cutting and stabbing. I confess I'm getting sick of it all.
I wish these were so many bullets that might beat the prison down about our ears, and then I might die like Sampson. It was near a month before he was called up to receive sentence, after which he made no scruple of saying that since they had found him guilty of throat-cutting, they should not lie, he would verify their judgment by cutting his own throat.
Presently, as neither could understand the other's speech, Noll and the Moro fell to "conversing" by means of signs. Yet, in this line, they could go little beyond the weather. Noll presently made a hit with the real brown man by shaking his fist in the direction of the American camp, then drawing his hand across his throat with an eloquent gesture of throat-cutting.
It would if it were loosed within smell of water.... He must die fairly and squarely of hunger and thirst no blowing out of brains or throat-cutting, no trace of suicide; just lost, poor chap, and no more to be said.... Death of thirst in that awful desert again No!
"The plan was invented, you know, by a group of artists who imagined putting up a large composite dwelling in a street where the cost of land was not absolutely throat-cutting, and finishing it with tasteful plainness in painted pine and the like, but equipping it with every modern convenience in the interest of easier housekeeping.
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