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It is dead, impaled upon the sharp spikes of the plant, as it came there by falling from above. A smile curls upon her lips as she sits regarding it. "So, yegua!" she says, bringing the mare to a stand, and half-turning her. "I've been losing my time and you your labour. The abominable birds it's only one of themselves that has dropped dead, and they're holding a velorio over it."
You have behaved well, yegua yeguita!" she adds, patting the mare upon the neck; "you shall have the promised pinons a whole cuartilla of them." Once more stepping to the front, she strikes off among the trees, along a path which still inclines downward, though now in gentler slope. Hamersley's brain is in a whirl.
Ay, and you shall have a half peck of pinon nuts for your supper, I promise you. You have done well to-day, but don't let us get belated. At night, as you know, we might be lost on the Llano, and the wicked wolves eat us both up. That would be a sad thing, mia yegua. We must not let them have a chance to dispose of us in that manner. Adelante!"
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