Rambles in sunny Spain . now and then shot,and instanta neously disap-peared ? It wanted not this, how-ever, to tell me that I was lookingat the endless vcta negra, thescorned, abused black vein,which throbbed, miles and milesaway into the earth, with virginsilver enough to supply theworld for worlds to come. Ha, ha, ha! roared thevoice; the old leaden, uselessvein! Where is the man thatcan eat all this silvers worthof fiijolitos ? Bring him here!bring him here ! And forth-with a thousand little sparklingfigures jumped out of the scin-tillating rock, and springing tothe ground, ringing like ne
Rambles in sunny Spain . now and then shot,and instanta neously disap-peared ? It wanted not this, how-ever, to tell me that I was lookingat the endless vcta negra, thescorned, abused black vein,which throbbed, miles and milesaway into the earth, with virginsilver enough to supply theworld for worlds to come. Ha, ha, ha! roared thevoice; the old leaden, uselessvein! Where is the man thatcan eat all this silvers worthof fiijolitos ? Bring him here!bring him here ! And forth-with a thousand little sparklingfigures jumped out of the scin-tillating rock, and springing tothe ground, ringing like new-coined pesos, they seized upon the body of Pepito,which I had not till now observed, who lay, blue with fear, in a corner of thegallery, and lifting him on their shoulders, brought him in front of the silvervein. The brightness of the metal scorched his eyes, which still could not, evenin his fear, resist feasting on the richness of the glittering lode. Bonanza, una bonanza! shouted the enraptured miner, forgetting his. ON MULEBACK. ABOUT PA LOS, COLUMBUS, AND TARSHISH. 221 situation and the presence he was in; for the figure (if figure it can be calledwhich was like a mist of silver fire) of the padre mina (the mine-king) was nowseen sitting in state on the top of the vein. Bonanza! shouted the same voice derisively; bonanza from an oldleaden, useless vein ! repeating the terms which Pepito had used in abusingit. Where s the man can eat this silvers worth of frijolitos ? What does hedeserve who has thus slighted the silver king? Turn him to lead, lead, lead ! answered the voice. Away with him, then. The thousand sparkling silverines seized the struggling miner. Not lead,,not lead, he shouted; anything but lead! But they held him fast by thelegs, and bore him opposite the lode. The rock sparkled up into a thousandtimes more brilliant coruscation than before, and for an instant I thought myeyes would have burned with looking at the silver vein, so heavenly bright itshone. An i
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