The vaquero said, "There is a post on the wharf, the bull will go one side and I will go the other and round him up.
The bull got a little the better of the man and went up the wharf full tilt with the vaquero in tow.
So after getting permission we started for it with the bull at one end of the rope and the vaquero at the other.
About this time I bought out Loring & Mason who were in the retail grocery business on the corner of Taylor and Clay streets.
His vaquero boots, embroidered with pretty designs in red thread, were fastened to his legs by silk and gold garters, from one of which emerged the admirably carved hilt of a long knife.
Without taking the time to pull off his vaquero boots or unbuckle his heavy spurs, Jose Parades hurried to his master.
At the gate, the vaquero and Winston, drawing their reins over their ponies' heads, dropped them on the ground.
At the same time, from one of the adobes, they saw a vaquero emerge.
It was here that a wandering vaquero chanced upon him.
Within a few months after my locating on the Rio San Juan, Enrique Lopez, a trusted vaquero from Las Palomas, came to the hacienda, apparently seeking employment.
Within a month after his employment I noticed the new vaquero casting shy glances at Juana, but until the cow hunt on the Frio I did not recognize the fine handwriting of the old matchmaker.
And then we'll be busy branding on the home range for a month, and I can't spare a vaquero a day to carry a letter to Santa Maria.
But several vaqueros, who understood some English, advised Enrique of what the old matchmaker proposed to do, when the vaquero threw his hands in the air and began sputtering Spanish in terrified disapproval.
A half hour before dawn, he made a final effort to escape, charging out between Gallup and the vaquero following up on the same side.
Not daring to follow the one with the gun for fear of ambuscade, the Indians gave chase to the vaqueroon horseback, whom they easily captured.
Then before the dazed animal could rise, with the agility of a panther the vaquero sprang astride his loins, and as he floundered, others leaped from their horses.
Responding to the summons, I was rewarded by finding a letter awaiting me from Frances Vaux, left by a vaquero passing from the Frio to Santa Maria.
A vaquero was dispatched to the Mission to summon the padre, carrying both a letter and the compliments of the ranch.
But in the choice of a vaquero to be dispatched on this mission, a spirited rivalry sprang up.
Calling Enrique to one side, he made the vaquero confess that he had been playing for the favor of the señorita at Santa Maria.
The vaquero was unable to make out their business, but was satisfied they were not there for pleasure, so my employer and I made an early start the next morning to see who the campers were.
Everything seemed perfectly satisfactory to all parties concerned, and after remaining in camp over an hour, Deweese and the vaquero saddled fresh horses and rode away.
A fourth spoke up, a leather-faced vaquero with hard eyes of jade.
Ever since he could swing himself to a saddle he had been a vaquero in the cow country.
Without deigning to notice it, she caught a wink and a nod from one vaquero to another.
A Mexican vaquero was driving some horses into a corral.
Next week a vaquero galloped home to the Twin Star ranch with a bullet through his leg.
On the far side, otherwise deserted, the sore indignant beasts scampered as fast as their legs could carry them whithersoever their vaquero chose to drive.
I have ridden like the wind, and coliared a bull with the best vaquero in the Californias, but I am afraid my mind has had fifteen years of siesta.
The vaqueros, the brander, and his assistants seemed impervious to fatigue; the cattle, shifting uneasily in their bands, leaped eagerly from the lines at the first signal from the vaquero bearing down on them like a fury from the corral.
IV The vaqueroguided the boys rapidly through the canon.
At a signal from Don Emilio a vaquero opened the gate cautiously and drove in a large bull, who had been carefully irritated since sunrise.
A vaquero will go with you for a distance and advise you.
As the boys approached, a vaquero sprang upon a mustang and rode toward them rapidly.
The young vaquero had eaten, and had food with him.
Here is a vaquerowho thinks himself a salteador de camino, a bandolero like the poor dead Pernales or that new man, Jacinto Quesada!
A huge long-barrelled revolver in the hand of the vaquero was nuzzling his umbilicus.
Prodding his belly persistently, the vaquero followed him back, step by step.
Evidently the strangevaquero had met with fortune.
To say that he was especially useful in his new calling as vaquerowould not be to put it so mildly.
The vaquero Corlees he afraid of not even the bear, I think, Señorita.
Sundown, forgetful of his pose as a vaquero of long standing (unintentional), assumed rather the attitude of one absorbing information on such topics than disseminating it.
The creases at the corners of his eyes deepened as he recognized in the rider the vaquero who had set the Concho dog upon his sheep some months before.
He had a score to settle with that vaquerofor having shot at him.
Meanwhile the vaquero of the Concho was to rest and perhaps enjoy his cigarette?
Perhaps the patron shall not know that the vaquero Corlees was here this morning.
Sundown felt that his status as a vaquerowas in question.
The vaquero raised his shoulders, half in disappointed expectation of some other command.
While the vaquero was talking the invaders came into view, riding fast.
Every vaquero that pretends to take care of his apparatus will bury his riata and stretch it every six or eight months.
No," answered Mr. Ohnimus, "the vaqueronever carries his noose long.
Our vaquerois trotting along with his rope hanging at his saddle bow or fastened behind him.
You see, the vaquero might be on a side hill, and a bull or steer he wishes to catch be on a trail below him, and the ground between them to be too steep to admit of his riding down to it.
No vaquero who understands his trade ties his rope to his saddle.
Your vaquero arrived yesterday, and I instructed him to put your baggage in the custom-house.
He sent a vaquero ahead with his evening clothes, and an hour or two later started for Fort Ross, spurring his horse with a lighter heart over the cliffs.
On his side, Leon, captivated by the frank advances which the Vaquero had made him, had gradually come to feel for him a sincere affection, which was evidenced by a deep and unbounded devotion.
Diego," he asked the Vaquero in his turn, "before answering you, let me ask you one question?
The Vaquero was all ears, and examined the general with a distrust which the latter did not notice, or feigned not to notice.
Vaquero be compelled to employ violence in carrying out his promise of bringing him into the presence of the novice?
Evidently not; since at the hour when the Vaquero left Leon, the young lady arrived under the safeguard of one of her father's servants.
Vaquero eagerly interrupted, on whose features a strange gleam of satisfaction had appeared.
The vaquero eyed him curiously and half doubtfully.
Arriving here, the vaquero winds the lasso round the legs of the doomed beast, and throws him to the ground, where he lies perfectly helpless and motionless.
The vaquero was barely in time to escape those terrible hoofs.
Now and then a Mexican vaquerocracked his long whip, and every report made Ned start and redden with anger.
This much I contrived to understand; but when I handed thevaquero a fine Principe cigar, and he took a few whiffs and became eloquent, I entirely lost the train of his observations.
By his uncouth manner and forbidding appearance I judged him to be the vaquero in charge of the place, in which I was not mistaken.
In about an hour my friend thevaquero came back, mounted on a broncho or wild horse, leading after him my mule, with the pack unchanged.
With the bark of a coyote the vaquero of the South leans forward over Vitriolo's neck.
Suddenly El Rayo's vaquero raised his hand, and down came the maddening quirto, first on one side, then on the other.
The vaquero sent word to Doña Brígida that the horses he had brought in to sell to the officers had escaped and that he was hastening down the coast in pursuit.
The vaquero dug his spurs into the shining flanks, the mustang reared, shook his small head and silver mane, and bounded through the doors.
A stranger stood by the gates, giving orders to a vaquero but looking hard at her from beneath his low-dropped sombrero.
But you can take her far away where no one knows--" "Where is this vaquero to be found?
The vaquero of Vitriolo sat like an image, using neither whip nor spur, his teeth set, his eyes rolling from the goal ahead to the rider at his side.
The rope strains terribly, but the vaquero watches his chances, and takes in the rope every time it slackens.
Now the vaquero stands up in his saddle, and the lasso swings round and round in a circle over his head.
The vaquero puts a Spanish saddle on a tame horse, and starts out to see what he can find.
Also I called in at the jacal of Miguel, the vaquero of San Angel, where I found Maria, his woman, just returned.
This hut belongs to a vaquero of San Angel, and this is an order, left in his absence, to drive the bulls into the hacienda.
For the first half of this distance the vaquero shambled along right speedily, but as he drew nearer to the animals he proceeded slower and with more caution.
But there was no danger of Guapo's friend the vaquerocommitting this blunder.
Leon was delighted with the excursion, as the vaquero showed him how to set the snares, and told him a great many curious stories of Puna life and habits.
The vaquero crawled back into the hut, and in a few minutes returned, but so metamorphosed, that had the party not seen him come out of the doorway they would have mistaken him for a llama!
Having placed his snares, thevaquero set out to return with his youthful companion.
All hands, even the saturnine Guapo, laughed loudly at the counterfeit, and the vaquero himself was heard to chuckle through the long wool upon the breast.
The vaquero not only promised secrecy, but bound himself to put any party of pursuers completely off the trail.
The vaquero was aware of all this, and therefore did not leave his hiding-place until he had firmly knotted one end of the long cord around the shank of the bird--then slipping out at one side, he ran off to some distance before stopping.
This was granted both by Don Pablo and the vaquero himself.
The vaquero laid hold of a long rope, and lifting the bull's hide upon his shoulders, asked Guapo to follow him with the two horses.
Concha, with a black riding skirt over her flounces, was now mounted on a handsome pinto mustang glittering with silver trappings, accompanied by a vaquero in a velvet jacket, Mr. Hoover bringing up the rear.
Chinese cook, and a Biddy, and a Mexican vaquero to look after his horse--but he won't have no mother to housekeep!
Five of them began to shoot dice on a saddle blanket in a decent, gentlemanly manner--two of the cowboys, the Chinese cook, a Yaqui vaquero and a Mexican horse thief from the Cuitaca valley.
Some time afterward he killed a Mexican vaquero in a dispute over a bridle, and fled south.
The vaquero was often absent from home--his business with his cattle carrying him to a great distance into the woods.
