. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. memory of the vanished hand. The trees are musical with birds; one at leastseems distinctly a mocking bird, singing away asthough his heart were bursting with joy. The windsighs and soughs in the pines and eucalypts and thesun is bright and warm when one is out of the go outdoors to get warm. AN ESTANCIA BUTCHER. In the yard a man is busily dressing fine fatewes that are to make mutton for the house of themanager, and the table of the peons as well. Verydeftly the brown man removes the skins from theplump fat b
. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. memory of the vanished hand. The trees are musical with birds; one at leastseems distinctly a mocking bird, singing away asthough his heart were bursting with joy. The windsighs and soughs in the pines and eucalypts and thesun is bright and warm when one is out of the go outdoors to get warm. AN ESTANCIA BUTCHER. In the yard a man is busily dressing fine fatewes that are to make mutton for the house of themanager, and the table of the peons as well. Verydeftly the brown man removes the skins from theplump fat bodies. Seated expectantly in a circlearound him are thirty cats of various sizes and col-ors, awaiting their chance at bits of meat. The catsare the police force that keeps rats away from theplace. 334 IN FOREIGN FIELDS Out in the pastures, cool, dewy and green, grazethe Lincoln sheep. The rains came, after the wearymonths of drouth, and at once the good black earthresponded, shooting up a wealth of grasses and clo-vers. Already the sheep are nearly all fat, everything A GAUCHO TYPE, OR NATIVE COWBOY. is rejoicing and the past is no more. Plant, animaland man put serene faith in the morrow, because ofthe happiness of today. Out in the field, down inthat square pit, the size of a large room, the peo-ple are taking out a curious brown substance which TRAVEL SKETCHES BY JOS. E. WING 335 looks for all the world like American plug is silage, made from green oats and alfalfa. Itis simply put into these pits green, tramped in withhorses, then covered with earth. Thus treated, itkeeps perfectly. When feed is wanted, the earthis removed, the silage cut with an axe, taken outand fed to bulls in the paddock. Our host is E. 0. Runnacles, until recently man-ager of Los Inglesitos. Senor Eunnacles is of En-glish birth. He is a successful stockman; he hasLos Inglesitos in capital order. The place is oneof the Gibson estancias. The Gibsons came to Ar-gentina eighty-five years ag
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