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I took the jewels and miniature from his neck, as he led the way with the firm step of a hero, in ascending the long gibbet. The halters were adjusted, when he stepped towards the side I was on, as far as the rope would let him, "Dexa me verla dexa me verla, una vez mas!" I held up the miniature. He looked he glared intensely at it.
Una virgin por Dios soy I am young," and seizing a boiled fowl from the dish, she let fly at her husband's head, but missed him, fortunately; whereupon she made a regular grab at him with her paw, but he slid under the table, in all haste, roaring out, "Ave Maria, que es esso manda por el Padre Send for the priest, y trae una puerco, en donde echar el demonio, manda, manda send for a priest, and a pig, into which the demon may be cast, send " "Dexa me, dexa me baylar" continued the old dame "tu no vale, Bobo viejo, you are of no use, you old blockhead you are a forked radish, and not a man let me catch you, let me catch you," and here she made a second attempt, and got hold of his queue, by which she forcibly dragged him from beneath the table, until fortunately, the ribbon that tied it slid off in her hand, and the little Senor instantly ran back to this burrow, with the speed of a rabbit, while his wife sung out, "tu gastas calzones, eh? para que, damelos damelos, yo los quitare?" and if she had caught the worthy man, I believe she would really have shaken him out of his garments, peeled him on the spot, and appropriated them to herself as her threat ran.
Here she threw herself into a chair, being completely blown; but after a gasp or two, she started to her legs again, dancing and singing and snapping her fingers, as if she had held castanets between them, "Venga Venga dexa me baylar Dankee, Dankee la Dankee, Dankee la mi guitarra mi guitarra Dankee, Dankee la ha, ha, ha," and away she trundled down stairs again, where she met the priest who had been sent for, in the lower hall, who happened to be very handsome young man.
Presently in danced our landlady, in propria persona, jumping and screaming and laughing, and snapping her fingers, and spinning round like a Turkish dervish, "mira el fandango, mira el fandangodexa me baylar, dexa me baylar See my fandango, see my fandangolet me dance let me dance ha, ha, ha."
He was told to compose himself, and that his boy would be taken care of. "Dexa me verlo entonces, oh Dios, dexa me verlo" and he crawled, grovelling on his chest, like a crushed worm, across the deck, until he got his head over the port sill, and looked down into the boat.
We were both of us so intent on our own match, that we lost sight of the Spaniard altogether, and the Captain and the first Lieutenant were bobbing in the stern sheets of their respective gigs like a couple of souple Tams, as intent on the game as if all our lives had depended on it, when in an instant the long black dirty prow of the canoe was thrust in between us, the old Don singing out, "Dexa mi lugar, paysanos, dexa mi lugar, mis hijos."
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