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balcony looking out to see if I'd be bringing him back. He went inside when he saw me and came downstairs disgusted.

"Well, after all," I said, "he's just an ignorant Mexican savage."

"Yes," Maera said, "and who will kill his bulls after he gets cogida?"

"We, I suppose," I said.

"Yes, we," said Maera. "We kill the savage's bulls, and the drunkard's bulls, and the riau-riau dancer's bulls. Yes. We kill them. We kill them all right. Yes. Yes. Yes."