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Updated: May 17, 2025
School-teachers from abroad have tried before now at Las Uvas to have school begin on the first of September, but got nothing else to stir in the heads of the little Castros, Garcias, and Romeros but feasts and cock-fights until after the Sixteenth. Perhaps you need to be told that this is the anniversary of the Republic, when liberty awoke and cried in the provinces of Old Mexico.
To these accrued much of the Spanish California float swept out of the southwest by eastern enterprise. They slacked away again when the price of silver went down, and the ore dwindled in La Golondrina. All the hot eddy of mining life swept away from that corner of the hills, but there were always those too idle, too poor to move, or too easily content with El Pueblo de Las Uvas.
It is absurd, of course, that El Pueblo de Las Uvas should have an Irish priest, but Black Rock, Minton, Jimville, and all that country round do not find it so.
There's no question of surrender and standing trial; understand that. He'd be lynched, probably, if they ever got him in Las Uvas. A trial, even, would be just lynching under another name. They don't want to capture him anyway they want a chance to kill him." "I wouldn't want the job," said Pringle. "Hush!" said Stella. "I hear them coming. Talk about something else the war in Europe."
It's one of the best little things I do waiting. And I came to protect Foy, not to capture him. I came to keep right at his side, in case he surrendered without a fight for fear he might be killed ... escaping ... on the way back. It's a way that we have in Las Uvas!" Lisner threw a look of hate at his deputy.
"I'd like it fine and dandy," said Pringle. "But I got a little visit to make to-morrow. Maybe I'll join you later. I like Las Uvas," stated John Wesley, beaming. "Nice, lively little place! I think I'll settle down here after a bit. Some of the young fellows are shy on good manners. But I can teach 'em.
Why, if it was me, do you s'pose I'd leave another man no matter how old and safe he was to tell such a story as that his own way and hog all the credit for himself? That Las Uvas push is a four-flush he needn't stir a peg for them. No, sir! I'd have stayed right there till you got ready to come and every time I'd narrate that tale about the scrap it would get scarier and scarier."
If you once get away bring the Bar Cross boys and they'll take Foy out of here in broad day." "Very pretty but there's four men in Las Uvas that know me and three of them are police. Maybe they'll stay in the city though being police?" "No, they won't," said the Major gloomily. "They'll be along deputized, of course. Maybe they won't be in the first batch though.
Below him Las Uvas, chief town of the valley, lay basking in the sun, tiny square and street bordered with greenery: its domino houses white-walled in the sun, with larger splashes of red from courthouse or church or school. Far on the westering desert, beyond the valley, Pringle saw a white feather of smoke from a toiling train; beyond that a twisting gap in the blue of the westmost range.
He was fairly well read, and he could have told you, when the stage crossed the South Yuba, that "Uvas" is Spanish for "grapes," and that the name "Yuba" is a curious English abbreviation of "Rio Las Uvas."
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