The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales

I looked in the direction indicated. The skins of several species of animals, among which I recognised those of the painter, 'possum, and 'coon, along with a haunch or two of re...

"My mouth war applied to the other eend, an' oh, golly! Thar warn't no mint julep ever sucked through a straw, as tasted like the flooid that kim gurglin' up through that ere ca...

I shall never forget the appearance of the Texan Rangers as they pulled up in the Plazza--I could not call the movement a halt. If I live, I shall make an attempt to describe it...

The same deteriorating influence had been at work upon _their_ moral principles for a like period of time; and the intermittent glimpses they had got of a republic, had been too...

The gun is used, as with other game-birds; and when it is a fowling-piece, buck-shot--the swan-shot of European countries--is the kind necessarily required to kill such a large,...

After cresting the ridge above mentioned, and commencing the descent on its opposite side, I could command a better view of those in front; and then it was that the individual,...

There was a natural reason for this, though I did not think of it at the moment. The first mile of the chase had been _down_ hill--so much the worse for Moro. He was a true Arab...

Fortunately, neither was armed--except with the weapons which nature had provided--and a short game of "fisticuffs"--in which Casey had decidedly the advantage--served as a 'sca...

With a heart brimful of anxiety, I ran across the glade. I say brimful of anxiety: for something, I could not tell what, had excited my sympathy for Calros Vergara.

There was nothing to surprise me in this. The young lawyer was no doubt there to receive his morning correspondence, like any other man of business. I should not have given a th...

"_Carrambo_! nothing of the sort, _nor deconocio_! I am here by conscription; and I've been shot down by conscription. No matter now. _We_ have no liberty left in Mexico--at lea...

The routed regiments of Santa Anna--saving some four thousand men captured upon the ground--had sought safety in flight, the greater body taking the main road to Jalapa, pursued...

It proved a long, hard ride; and, I need scarcely add, that it was not a merry one. It required all my efforts to cheer my companion, who sometimes sank into the most profound m...

Alas! it did not. As the boat was warped in, broadside to the wharf, I scanned the crowd with keen glances: not a group--scarcely an individual--escaped my observation. There we...

I was astonished by this circumstance, and mentally endeavoured to account for it. Perhaps the report of my pistol had awed them into silence, under the belief that the "strippe...

Detectives were set upon the search for Despard, but of course only as spies--since as yet we could allege nothing stronger than suspicion against him. The _espionage_, however,...

I must confess, however, that this hope was a very faint one. If the fellow had impressed me with an idea of his vulgarity, he had said or done nothing that could lead me to que...

It was the double detonation of their rifles that had first given the surprise to the salteadores--at the same time, as had been preconcerted, it acted as a signal to the ranger...

She stood a while, looking out upon the street, scanning the strange uniforms that were grouped before her. At length her eye fell upon us; and as she perceived that my comrade...

"I see no objection to his going up the road," said the surgeon, after having spent some little time in considering, "It is very kind on your part, cavallero," added he--"a stra...

"Oh, I am dreaming!" thought I. "I am still between old Jose's comfortable sheets. It's the Teneriffe has done it all, and the _cuenta chiquitita_ is only a joke after all. Ha,...

It was not likely it would long continue in this unconscious condition, and as the log on which it lay was carried by the current in the same direction as ourselves, and at the...