He realized that the first word of warning to Brent would mean his own doom and the death of his men in the battle which would follow, for he knew the Gringo cowboys would fight to the last man.
Never would she have further to do with the Gringo who spoke such words.
Even this Gringo he despised, and him had he found the whitest Gringoof them all.
And Urcisino Castillo told him to his face that he was a dog of a Gringo and other things.
He disliked all Gringos, but this Gringo he hated with an immediacy that was unusual even in him.
On my desk lies a requisition from your gringo border police, demanding your bodies.
It is that honest Mexicans are robbed by gringothieves while thou art lost in a siesta!
That is what I have always told my chief--'these hombres bother only the gringo pigs.
If the horses are taken from a gringo rancho in Valles's country, my chiefs will be the better pleased.
In central Chihuahua there are many horse-ranchos, gringoranches with fine blooded stock.
With a covert grin at the safe insult, he continued, "But a gringo is a gringo, whether here or in your United States.
When we interviewed him yesterday that's exactly the crack Valles made about 'gringo correspondents' and 'long-distance reporting.
At Los Arboles there were to be women, a score at least, young and pretty; also a gringo girl with golden hair and a skin of milk?
At current exchange, one gringo for seven Mex, we orter account for fifty-six.
Even we, the Icarzas, and dozens of others who are now living on your side of the border, all of us who would have so much to gain and nothing to lose by a gringo occupation, would turn against you.
Twenty of us, see you, mashed by the engine the gringo loosed upon us; si, mashed to a pulp.
What if the gringo ranchers had caught you last night?
But Diaz, who liked a bad gringo better than a good greaser, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.
The twogringo senoritas at the Lovell rancho, where were they?
After this revolutionary currency that's run off by the million on a newspaper press, these greasers are crazy forgringo bills.
Early in the night a company of fifty dropped off here and are gone, mad with hate, to loot the gringo haciendas.
The police down there said somebody, some gringo tourist fly-fishing way down on the Usumacinta River, near where the Rio Tigre comes in from Guatemala, snagged this floating in a plastic bag.
Pablo, grinning from ear to ear; and he drew his machete and went through an expressive pantomime which, if carried out, would certainly have left very little ofGringo or any one else.
A Gringo wants to see the general," he shouted to a barefoot trooper crouched in the shade of an adobe house.
And afterward, while Gabriel makes love to the muchacha, the Gringo Yeager will learn what it means to displease the Liberator," promised the brown man with a twinkle of cruel little eyes.
He is dead--shot by a Gringo who has gone to hell already.
Yet our friend the Gringo rides away in safety and laughs at you both.
He is in touch with the play-actor Lennox and hopes soon to get the Gringo Yeager.
As for these Gringo women"--He whispered a bit of slander that brought the blood to the face of Steve.
The Gringo dog escaped and killed my dear friend Ramon, but by good luck I shot him before he made his getaway.
Boys who would have run their legs off to obey a whim of Harrison spat contemptuously upon the face of the "Gringo cabrone.
Take the Gringoback to his prison," ordered Culvera.
And another Gringo will be shot when the sun falls below the hills, and perhaps another to-morrow.
The general wants the Gringoto cut out his heart and liver.
Come down and bury thisGringo dog's body," he ordered.
This Harrison promised the general to bring back with him the Gringo Yeager.
Personally this Gringo was a devil, of course, but Pasquale was a prince of devils whose business it was to keep all lesser ones in order.
Gringo whiskey--better far than mescal," he cried softly as he handed the treasure to one of the guards.
He can be of great service to us, for he is very friendly with the Germans--yet he looks like a gringo and could pass for one.
The chances are scarcely even that two gringo hoboes would last the week out afoot and broke in Viva Mexico; but it has been many years since I followed the dictates of wisdom.
His pony must be rested by now, and a few miles to the north the gringo whose capture meant a thousand dollars to Bridge was on the road to liberty.
Far to his rear Rozales plodded sullenly up the steep trail through the mountains, revolving in his mind various exquisite tortures he should be delighted to inflict upon the next gringo who came into his power.
He speaks the language of the gringo less well even than I.
Since the gringo had returned from Cuivaca with the loot of the bank and turned the last penny of it over to him the outlaw had looked upon his new captain as something just short of superhuman.
The Mexican made no reply, but the black scowl that clouded his face boded ill for the next gringo who should be so unfortunate as to fall into his hands.
I'll tell Trinidad how you asked the Gringo in to breakfast, and he'll have you shot!
Are you the Gringo who ran so many miles with the colorados after you shooting?
Most of them had never heard of reporters, and one hazarded the opinion darkly that I was a Gringo and a Porfirista, and ought to be shot.
At four o'clock, when somebody started the report that a Gringo Huertista spy was among us, I decided to go to bed.
At the same time the telegrapher had heard a message from Argumedo, in command at Mapimi, saying that the entire north of Mexico was coming down on Torreon, together with the Gringo army!
Here's the Gringo we were telling you about who danced the jota in La Zarca!
The dealer made a megaphone out of his hands and shouted through the din; the man on the table turned up a livid face, insisting shrilly that it was an outrage for Gringo rules to spoil a perfectly good Mexican game like stud poker.
I heard there was a Gringo in this hotel and I have come to kill you.
Experience had accustomed the ancient trader to despots, but in this cheery youngster of a Gringo the regal title was not clear, which simply made tyranny the more irksome.
The new element in the court martial was Tiburcio, and Tiburcio had in mind one golden goose to save and one meddling Gringo to lose.
Don Tiburcio waited with keen appreciation, as he always did when the unexpectedness of this Gringo was unfolding.
Did the Señor Gringo laugh so much at Mexican justice, since instead of escaping while he had the chance, he came back, coolly demanding his property?
In his arroyo again, he proposed to make the Gringo as a sieve.
He was officer of the guard, and had a curiosity as to how a Gringo about to be shot would act.
Rodrigo and Murguía wanted the Gringoshot to help the rebel cause.
Coming from Jefferson Davis, theGringo with his mission could mean nothing else.
It was Riego's especial work to peddle their vegetables at the khaki tents of the gringo soldiers a few miles away, and this was very entertaining and exciting in itself, for the soldiers were jolly and kind and said nice things to one.
We will attack the gringo camp to-night--just before dawn," a smothered voice was saying.
So Teresita was mightily offended at what she considered a slight from the only gringo woman she had ever known; and she was also bitterly disappointed over the abandonment of the new coiffure.
Instead, entered the gringo whom Don Andres had foolishly chosen for majordomo, and stood in the middle of the corral, quietly waiting while the vaqueros with their horses and riatas dragged away the carcasses of the bull and the bear.
No gringo can come among us Californians and flap the wings and crow upon the tule thatch for naught.
When I, a don, must give the road to a gringo lower than the peons whom I flog for less impertinence, it is time we ceased taking them by the hand as though they were our equals!
Since you are travelling, you had best go and tell the padres to make ready the sacrament for your gringo friend, that blue-eyed one; for truly his time on earth is short!
The gringo would doubtless go to the rodeo, and he would meet him there without the spectacular flavor of a formal challenge.
There were whispers also of a quarrel between the señorita and her gringo lover, and it was said that the young señorita prayed last night that José would win.
Teresita heard, bit her lips cruelly at failing to bring that stubborn gringo to his feet--and to hers!
There will be one gringo the less when those two meet," he muttered, staring at the tiny glow of his cigarette; and afterward folded his arms tightly over a chest that heaved with the impatience within.
Amarilla,” I said, “I missed you and Gringo more than any other of the dogs.
Left alone with me, for Gringo and Walter Scott with exquisite dog propriety had followed their owners, master gave me the whole story.
He was just going to take a long pull out of it, when old Gringo pretended to see a mouse in the earth, gave chase, and stumbled in front of the self-indulgent young man.
Now, being so taken up with myself, and listening to the animated barks behind me, for every dog was remonstrating with Gringo for his severity toward me, I did not notice properly the way I was going.
I made an exclamation of pity, and Gringo said, “My heart was sore for them too.
Gringo thought I would get a prize, but when I looked round the show, I said, “Some of these fellows here will ride rough-shod over me.
Gringo told me afterward it was as good as a play to see the cop’s face when impie ran her thin young arm in between his rat-trap jaws.
You see,” said Gringo to me, “he wanted to have it in some place easy to get at in this storm, and where he could have some good excuse for calling on it.
Gringo went under the sofa with me, and Walter Scott lay by the fire.
The noble baronet is laying out the land for next spring, when he’s coming back to see us all,” Gringo continued.
Gringo hesitated, then he shuffled over to the hearth-rug.
The Mexicans were convinced that a large force of Gringo Diablos were at hand, and they feared for their lives.
Those border rovers of Mexico who have crossed the path of the boys once and have escaped with their lives, evince no disposition to renew hostilities with the "gringo devils," as they affectionately call the American outlaws.
Some of them even tore at the walls as if they imagined they could demolish them and get at the gringo gold.
I happen to know that one of the first things that General Madero intends to do is to move upon the mines of the robber Americanos, and get some of their gringo gold.
Very strange she did not forget a Gringo and marry with a caballero," said one of the girls, scornfully.
There Nan, through Sansome, who talked Spanish, was able to communicate with her kindly hosts; andGringo met his honoured but rather snappy mother.
About midnight Gringo pricked up his ears and barked sharply.
They rescued Gringo from Sam's care, and drove up to the house.
Nobody but Gringo knew that anything had happened; and he only realized that the universe had suffered an upheaval, so that now mistresses might kick their poor defenceless dogs in the stomach.
If he could have heard Mrs. Morrell's indictment, he would have been both grieved and surprised: Gringo never prowled anywhere.
The iniquities of Gringo and the eccentricities of Wing Sam Nan detailed at length, and also her experiences with the natives.
Gringo added somewhat to the complications in life.
Gringo slept by the fire dreaming of rabbits and things, his hind legs twitching as he triumphantly ran them down.
Gringo stopped panting, and drew in his tongue, but otherwise did not shift his posture.
He taught Gringo not to "jump up"; he found out what was the matter with the Gold of Ophir cutting; he discovered and took her to see just the shade of hangings she had long sought for the blue room.
Keith gave it as his opinion that Gringo would stop short of suicide, commended Gringo's taciturnity and evident perseverance, and departed for the hotel.
Gringo rose deliberately and retired with dignity to the coldest, darkest, most cheerless corner he could find, where he sat and looked dejected.
Distant sounds carried clearly, as the barking of a dog-- it might have been Gringo shut up at home--or the crowing of a distant cock.
Gringo at times was very naughty, and very much in the way.
I'd no idea--" Gringo was at the moment ingratiating himself with Wing Sam in re one soup bone of no use to anybody but dogs.
From far out on the waste, he cried: "Bah, Gringo dogs!
They had no heart to stand up before a lad who could shoot with the skill of a Gringo cowboy, and did not seem at all excited when attacked by twenty men.
Her gringo friends are enemies of the Governor, and those who help them also are his enemies.
Before noon we will be on the heels of the gringo dogs and our scouts will find their camp in the night.
Sanchez in his babbling had mentioned the caravan, a gringo name, and the urgent need for a warning to be carried.
Tomorrow we will be well rid of many of the gringodogs and we will attend to these strange Indians when this present business has been taken care of.
There is a gringo woman missing from Santa Fe and we are seeking her.
And so I have decided that these Gringo engineers shall perish, anyway, as soon as they have served my purpose.
More, I have not pretended to understand thisGringo pair.
They have sampled your power," "Yet why do you object, Carlos, to having the Gringo pair put out of the way?
Even if this Gringo pair appear honestly to aid me in making the sale--and even if I do make the sale and receive the money--this Gringo pair must die.
That taller Gringo taunted me with the claim that he was not armed at all," grinned Gato, ferociously.
He was trying to lead us on, that we might walk into their Gringo trap.
Don Luis, though you have spent many years in the United States, I fear you do not at all understand some traits of the Gringo character," warned Dr.
They stared curiously at this stalwart-looking, bronzed young Gringo who walked toward them with alert step.
Then what do you think of the Gringo pair, my good Carlos?
The Doc made judicious answer: "Well, son, Jed Hawkins' specifications of the gringo he fought with atop the crap table in the Palacio tallies pretty closely with the young man as I saw him in my office earlier in the day.
The gringo goes in chain gang for Hermosillo, but my cousin Jesus Ruiz 'e says that gringo mos' like never arrive.
Quelele, whom Urgo instantly recognized, accepted the implied hint to halt; in the seat beside him was a strange white man--a gringo by his looks.
Find the knife in the room of the woundedgringo senor,' he commands.
But with all the deadly spleen compacted into his wispy body the little man hated the gringo Grant Hickman.
Here was no boor but a wise gringo with a chuckle behind every word.
The rurales will visit your house and it is for me to say whether they take you as well as the gringo convict.
Urgo stiffly bowed and waited for the gringo to speak.
Urgo would have liked to detain this impudent gringo for a lesson in manners did not more pressing pleasure lie ahead.
If you would only believe in me and trust me, my beautiful gringo flower!
Even with the gringo dead, my triumph would not be complete if she escaped me.
He knew that this was the Bear of Baxter's canon, this was the Gringo Bear, but he did not know that this was also his old-time Grizzly Jack.
The beef went down, but Gringo had to follow up the blow, then raged and tore in anger for his wounded paw.
If Gringo had been able to think clearly, he might have said: "This surely is a new kind of man.
Then Gringorushed around, sniffed the wind for the foe, and Faco fired again.
I tell you he ees Gringo devil--he ees devil Bear.
The silvery hide was never touched by man, and when the semblance of his mate was gone, Gringo quit the place.
The hunter believed that here he would meet not, only the Gringo Bear that he was after, but would also stand a chance of finding others, for the place had escaped the fire.
So Gringo Jack followed fast and far, for the place was a mile away, and reaching the curious log cavern, he halted and sniffed.
He raged up the cliff, but Faco climbed a tree, and Gringo went back to his mate.
Whether it was chance or choice can never be known, but when Faco fired once more, Gringo Jack was between, and the ball struck him.
Vaqueros, spurred with jangling silver-mounted harness, toward Francisco Sanchez' stronghold in the Santa Clara hills to battle with the "gringo tyrants.
And now a gringo sloop-of-war was in the bay, some said with orders to reduce the port.
A gringo engineer named Fremont with a rabble of adventurers had overthrown the valiant Vallejo at Sonora and declared a California Republic.
We started on the day which is a gringo fete because it is the natal anniversary of the great George Washington," Benito's chronicle concluded.
Many other rancheros, now that the ice was broken, brought their wives and daughters for an introduction to the gringo commandante, and Montgomery, his good humor restored, kissed many a fair hand in response to a languishing smile.
