. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . cquire a know-ledge of this Jerga (La Germania), with its idiomatic piquancyand raciness, is the aim of the fancy young men, the Flamencos ofSouthern Spain. To be in the circle of the popular bull-fighters, with itsperilous female entourage, is considered ch ic by certain gilded appears to find its beau ideal in the borderland whichlies between the bizarre existence of the torero and the Gitano orgypsy. {See chapter on the Spanish Gypsy of to-day.) F 2 68 WILD SPAIN. the corrida, e
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . cquire a know-ledge of this Jerga (La Germania), with its idiomatic piquancyand raciness, is the aim of the fancy young men, the Flamencos ofSouthern Spain. To be in the circle of the popular bull-fighters, with itsperilous female entourage, is considered ch ic by certain gilded appears to find its beau ideal in the borderland whichlies between the bizarre existence of the torero and the Gitano orgypsy. {See chapter on the Spanish Gypsy of to-day.) F 2 68 WILD SPAIN. the corrida, even should he delegate the presidential chairto some one of higher authority. He is required toexamine the bulls before the fight: that is, to see that theybear the Ijrand of the herd advertised, and have no visibledefect ; then he must inspect the horses ; even the bande-rillas and the garrochas, the points of which latter mustbe shortened as autumn approaches. Till the alcaldeappears in his tribune, the fight may not commence, andduring the spectacle he orders the incoming of each bull,. AN ESPADA. OR MATADOR. the time which the picadors shall occupy with their lances :he directs the trumpets of his attendant heralds to soundthe changes in the fight, when banderilleros succeedpicadors, and for the final scene, when the matador stepsalone upon the arena, with scarlet cloak and gleamingsword. It will thus be seen that the presidential function involvesa fairly deep knowledge of all the arts and etiquette oftauromachian science. Under intelligent direction, acci- TAUROMACHIA, THE FIGHTING BULL OF SPAIN. 69 dents in the ring and tumults amongst dissatisfied multi-tudes are avoided—\Yitliout it, the reverse. We have now traced in brief outline the life-history ofour gallant bull; we have brought him face to face withFrascuelo and his Toledan blade ; there we must leavehim. But, in concluding this chapter, may we beg thegenerous reader, should he ever enter the historic circle of
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