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Updated: June 8, 2025
Then my grandfather might be seen stretching far over the front of his box, his eyes staring on the prostrate picador, and his hands clenched above his head, while he shouted, "By the Lord, sir, he'll be killed!"
The man was brave enough; there's no denying his courage, which was like that of ten men like that of a fierce bull; but I I was superb, magnificent! The man bellowed, he roared, he grunted; he charged me, flinging the earth high with his heels, but I was banderillero, picador, and matador in one. I was here, I was there, I was everywhere; so swiftly did I move that no eye could follow me."
One of two things: we must either have the money, or, as he is a good horseman, we can enroll him in our band. "'I wish, I replied, 'neither his money nor his person, and I forbid you to speak to him. "'Take care, she said; 'when anyone dares me to do a thing it is soon done. "Luckily the picador left for Malaga, and I set about my smuggling.
Barely were they down when he was upon them and with a single twitch of his mighty neck, had ripped open the horse's barrel and half amputated one of the rider's legs. Then, diverted by the capadores, he whirled upon the second picador and in another ten seconds had left his horse dead and the rider badly trampled.
Sometimes the bull flinches at this sharp and sudden punishment, and the picador, by a sudden turn to the left, gets away unhurt. Then there is applause for the torero and hisses for the bull. Some indignant amateurs go so far as to call him cow, and to inform him that he is the son of his mother.
Sometimes the bull comes upon the dead body of a horse he has killed. The smell of blood and the unmoving helplessness of the victim excite him to the highest pitch. He gores and tramples the carcass, and tosses it in the air with evident enjoyment, until diverted by some living tormentor. You will occasionally see a picador nervous and anxious about his personal safety.
I had learned the metaphor, which stands for Andalusia, from my friend Francisco Sevilla, a well-known picador. "Pshaw! The people here say there is no place in Paradise for us!" "Then perhaps you are of Moorish blood or " I stopped, not venturing to add "a Jewess." "Oh come! You must see I'm a gipsy! Wouldn't you like me to tell you la baji?* Did you never hear tell of Carmencita?
The channel of the stream, which but a minute before I could have leaped across, was the next instant filled, and utterly impassable. "You can't possibly move," said Don Picador; "you can neither go on nor retreat; you must stay until the river subsides."
"'Beware! she retorted. 'If any one defies me to do a thing, it's very quickly done. "Luckily the picador departed to Malaga, and I set about passing in the Jew's cotton stuffs. This expedition gave me a great deal to do, and Carmen as well. I forgot Lucas, and perhaps she forgot him too for the moment, at all events.
I have heard Wellington calumniated in this proud scene of his triumphs, but never by the old soldiers of Aragon and the Asturias, who assisted to vanquish the French at Salamanca and the Pyrenees. I have heard the manner of riding of an English jockey criticized, but it was by the idiotic heir of Medina Celi, and not by a picador of the Madrilenian bull ring.
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