. The land of the Dons. is when Giierrita and Fuentes, inresponse to the clamorous petition of the spectators,consent to bandcrillear the fifth bull, for each of thesefamous matadores is also the beau ideal of a bandc-rillcro. Guerrita, who takes the first pair, in spiteof his verging upon forty years is as active as aspringbuck, and glories, before actually planting thepalos, in making believe that he is going to plantthem; in playing, as it were, with his enemy, inexhibiting a series of salidas en /also, or feints, elec-trifying the aficionados by these masterly and classicaladornos. But bet
. The land of the Dons. is when Giierrita and Fuentes, inresponse to the clamorous petition of the spectators,consent to bandcrillear the fifth bull, for each of thesefamous matadores is also the beau ideal of a bandc-rillcro. Guerrita, who takes the first pair, in spiteof his verging upon forty years is as active as aspringbuck, and glories, before actually planting thepalos, in making believe that he is going to plantthem; in playing, as it were, with his enemy, inexhibiting a series of salidas en /also, or feints, elec-trifying the aficionados by these masterly and classicaladornos. But between Rafael and Fuentes there islittle if anything to choose. If one has his darlingmethod, so has the other, and when Guerrita hasclavado his par as magistralmente as is his wont, theother advances towards the bull, pulls out hishandkerchief, lays it on the ground, plants bothfeet upon it, and then, by dint of calling andalegrando him for quite a while, induces him tocharge. As he does so, and without stirring a hairs. 00 o -J>-) o CO Q a: oz a;O OS wa. t/3 ixl THE BULLFIGHT. 195 breadth from the handkerchief, but merely swayinghis body to one side, Fuentes drives in the bandcrillasto perfection, while the bull, sweeping impetuouslyonwards, grazes his very taleguilla. / Vaya un par qucbrando ! says my neighbour;and you may be sure that Fuentes goes down inhis good books. But the cloudless afternoon is ripening intosundown, shadows fall deeply over all the plaza,and before Fuentes has despatched the sixth andlast bicho, the concourse begins to melt away. Myfriend the revistcro eagerly gathers up his hastilyscrawled cuartiilas, and bidding me adieu, a student of human, as well as of animal nature, Iprefer, for my own part, to wait until the very end, andeven later; till the acomodadores have gathered up theleather cushions from the tendidos, and the tag-ragand bob-tail who vaulted feverishly into the anillowhen the last blow was struck and faurus reluctantlygave u
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