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The learned gentleman no one had noticed how he got there stood with them on the steps of an altar, on which lay the dead body of the black bull. All the rest of the courtyard was thick with people, seemingly of all classes, and all were shouting, 'The sea the sea! 'Be calm, said the most kingly of the Kings, he who had lassoed the bull.
In a few seconds the others appeared at the top of the hill, storming the trenches and killing the Federals by the thousand. With his rope, Demetrio lassoed the machine guns and carried them off, like a bull herd throwing a steer. Yet his success could not last much longer, for the Federals were far stronger in numbers and could easily have destroyed Demetrio and his men.
Then the Mexicans charged forward, lassoed the horses, captured one of the guns and turned it on the Americans. From some cause or other it could not be discharged. Finally, the Americans took refuge among the rocks, where they were surrounded by three or four times their number, seemingly with the choice of two courses before them to surrender or starve to death.
Only the year before at branding, when an infuriated bull had driven every vaquero out of the corrals, did not Enrique mount his horse, and, after baiting the bull out into the open, play with him like a kitten with a mouse? And when the bull, tiring, attempted to make his escape, who but Enrique had lassoed the animal by the fore feet, breaking his neck in the throw?
As the two men walked home, the friend threatened to reveal the lover's secret his tonsure which would be fatal to his hopes. They quarrelled, parted, and the ex-priest lassoed his friend. The motive, I think, is an original one, and not likely to occur to the first comer. The inventor is open to offers. The next novel, based on a dream, was called "In Search of Qrart." What is Qrart?
The Capm he lassoed me, an' choked me some; an' now you're on it." "When things habben to officers, they must pe looked into," replied Meyer. "I dunno how in thunder the lariat got busted," repeated Texas. "An' if I should go for to guess, I mought guess wrong." "All right, Schmidt; I pelieve you. If there is no more drubble, you will not pe called up again."
He ran a short distance away from us, circling our cavalcade. His foe was nearly up to him again. He stopped an instant with uplifted foot, then turned and made directly for us. Three loaded guns hung at our saddles, but no hand went towards them. Not thirty feet away from our motionless horses the buck dropped, exhausted. We could easily have lassoed him.
"He told me afterward that he had made a dash round to the stable, where he had found seven or eight Mexicans looking after the horses; that he had knocked down one or two who were in his way, had leaped upon the nearest animal, and had made off at the top of his speed, but that a dozen others were after him in an instant; and seeing that he would be lassoed and thrown from his horse, he had stopped and thrown up his arms in token of surrender.
The redskins came from every direction, and, within half an hour from the time Sut Simpson was lassoed, there must have been nearly a hundred Apaches gathered around him. These all continued their frantic rejoicings, while, as before, the prisoner remained silent.
A Man Running for Office was overtaken by Lightning. "You see," said the Lightning, as it crept past him inch by inch, "I can travel considerably faster than you." "Yes," the Man Running for Office replied, "but think how much longer I keep going!" The Lassoed Bear
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