Over the flowering plains! Oh, there is something soul-stirring in a free, furious, prolonged gallop2, where obstructions3 are few, where the land is almost level, and Nature reigns5 unfettered by the influence of man! No fences, no ditches, no ploughed lands, no enclosed estates, nothing to check even for a moment the grand onward6 sweep through illimitable space save the capacity of endurance in steed and rider.
Of course it has its drawbacks, but we will not pause to meditate7 on these. Life has its drawbacks everywhere, and if we were to attempt an enumeration8 of them our tale would become unreasonably9 long, and also somewhat unprofitable.
Perhaps it adds to the zest10 of life the fact that many of its incidents are of such a nature that we find it difficult to say whether they are drawbacks or advantages. For instance, the jovial11 garrulity12 of Quashy was a drawback at times. At other times it was a decided13 advantage, and his friends and companions held such interchangeable opinions on the point that they could not readily have expressed them if called on to do so at a moment’s notice.
A runaway14 tendency in a horse is considered by most people a disadvantage. Yet there are some people whose nerves and spirits are so constituted that they have a sneaking15 fondness for a horse of this disposition16.
Strange though it may seem, Manuela belonged to this class. It is said that men whose characters form a contrast are more likely to draw towards each other than those whose characters are similar. May the same principle not operate between man and the lower animals? Was it not the gentleness, tenderness, womanliness, softness of Manuela which caused her to dote upon and delight in her steed, though it was a huge, high stepping, arch-necked, rearing, plunging17 animal—something between an Irish hunter and a Mexican warhorse?
The steed in question had been purchased for her by her father from the Gauchos19, who assured him that the animal was a remarkably20 good one to go. They told the simple truth, but not the whole truth, for sometimes it would “go” with its hind-legs doing double service in the way of kicking, and, at other times, it balanced that feat21 by giving its fore-legs a prodigious22 flourish while in the act of rearing. To do the creature justice, however, it could and did go ahead of its companions on the journey, and retained that position without fatigue23, as was evinced by the flashing eye, distended25 nostril26, pawing and snorting with which it received every proposal to halt.
Being a splendid rider, Manuela managed this spanking27 charger with infinite grace and ease, all the more that it happened to have a tender mouth, and only succeeded in getting beyond her control when it chanced to get the bit between its teeth. At first her father and the others were alarmed, and offered to change her steed for another; but she refused to change, and when they saw how fearlessly she rode, they became reconciled—all except Lawrence.
“It is the fearlessness of innocence28 combined with ignorance,” he muttered to himself one afternoon, as Manuela’s horse, without apparent provocation29, presented first its tail and then its nose to the sky. The Inca princess patted the playful creature approvingly, and induced it to adopt a bounding, indiarubber-like pace. In a few minutes this was reduced to a springy walk.
Lawrence could not resist the temptation to ride forward and offer his own horse, although Colonel Marchbanks rode alongside of his daughter like an inflexible30 guardian31.
“You will find my horse much easier to manage, Miss Marchbanks,” he said, “and quite as strong and fleet as your own.”
The colonel frowned, and his daughter said, “No, t’ank you, senhor,” with a little bow and a brilliant smile.
It was one of Manuela’s little fancies to revert32 sometimes to the broken English peculiar33 to her colour and costume. This was not at all relished34 by Lawrence. It seemed to argue a want of earnestness, which was not at all in harmony with the tremendous depth of his love for her! He drew rein35 immediately and fell behind, but at that moment Manuela’s horse put its foot in a biscacho-hole and stumbled. Evidently it had received a violent surprise, for, after having a second time presented its tail and nose alternately to the skies, it gave vent36 to an indignant snort, performed what seemed to be a pirouette on one leg, took the bit in its teeth, and bolted.
Of course the colonel put spurs to his steed, and gave chase. Instantly Lawrence did the same. As a consequence Quashy followed, and, not wishing to be left behind, the whole cavalcade37 went after them at full speed. The thunder of numerous hoofs38 acted as a sharp spur to the wild runaway. At once it became a fair race, in which each gradually took his place according to ability. The course was clear—from the Andes to the Atlantic, almost, and horses and riders were fresh!
In a remarkably short time the party straggled, and the line extended. Soon it became evident that the colonel, Lawrence, Pedro, and Quashy were the best mounted of the troop, for these four drew far ahead of all the others; yet the runaway kept its advantage, despite the utmost efforts of Manuela’s fair little arms to check it. Gradually Pedro and the colonel were left behind. Despite the utmost application of voice and spur, Quashy also dropped to the rear, and the race lay at last between our hero and the Inca princess!
Mile after mile was passed as they flew like the wind over the rolling plains, scarcely impeded39 at all by the Pampas grass, which was not long at that season, but at last they came to a ridge40 on which there was a line of low bushes. By that time, by dint41 of hard spurring, Lawrence had managed to get up almost alongside of the girl, whose look of gleeful excitement was now changed to one of wild anxiety.
“Try to pull just a little harder!” cried Lawrence, “your horse won’t be able to jump it.”
Manuela tried, but she had already put forth42 all her strength, and if that had been twice what it was, the effect on the powerful creature would probably have been just the same.
As the danger drew nearer, Lawrence made desperate efforts to increase his speed. He was so far successful that when they finally came to the line of bushes, the horses were almost abreast43 of each other. Horses of the Pampas are not usually jumpers, but Manuela’s horse must have had a touch of the hunter in him, for he rose to the leap, and went up like a rocket. Lawrence, on the other hand, went crashing through the obstruction4 like the shot of an eighty-ton gun! The leap evidently took more time than the crash, which was fortunate, for it enabled Lawrence to get well alongside at the moment the fore-feet of Manuela’s horse touched the ground, and just as the poor girl herself, unused to leaping, fairly lost her balance as well as her presence of mind and fell backward half fainting. She would have fallen to the ground if Lawrence had not caught her round the waist, and dragged her to the pommel of his own saddle. It was one of those cases of rescue which men are apt—perhaps justifiably44 so—to style providential, for no planning or judgment45 or energy on the part of Lawrence could have arranged that Manuela should have been at the apex46 of her leap when her powers failed, so that she should fall from that height, as it were, almost into his arms!
A few bounds more and they were safe. As if it had understood this, and felt that further effort was needless, the runaway steed stopped abruptly47, and, after looking round in unreasonable48 surprise, began quietly to crop the herbage at its feet.
One by one the rest of the party came up, full of congratulations.
“You dood dat well, massa,” said Quashy, who was the first to arrive, grinning all over; “and dat was a bu’ster,” he added, surveying the gap in the bush through which Lawrence had crashed.
“Please set me down before the others come up!” whispered Manuela, who, having, as we have said, half fainted, had allowed her head to fall on her rescuer’s shoulder.
Lawrence wished that circumstances might have admitted of his continuing the journey as they were then situated49, but propriety50 required him to say—
“Here, Quash,—lend a hand.”
The negro vaulted51 to the ground, and received Manuela into his arms just as Pedro and the colonel galloped52 up.
“Thank you, Senhor Armstrong, thank you heartily,” said the latter, as he dismounted, and, sitting down on a mound53, drew his child to his side.
“I’m not hurt, not a bit,” sighed Manuela, with a slight attempt at a smile.
“Thank God for that, but you are shaken a little,” returned the old soldier with an anxious look. “Here Pedro, Quashy, fetch me the flask54 from my saddle.”
By the time a cup of the flask’s contents was administered to Manuela, Mariquita and Susan were kneeling beside her, and the rest were standing55 round.
“A splendid leap!—aw—couldn’t have been much better done if—aw—it had been an English hunter,” remarked the sportsman in an undertone to his friend. “But, I say, don’t it strike you that the colonel is uncommonly—aw—sweet on that little Indian girl.”
“She’s no more an Indian girl than you are,” replied his friend, with a laugh.
“Let us go,” said Manuela, rising; “I am much better, only a little shaken by such a leap. But—but I should like another—”
“Yes, to be sure, another horse,” interrupted the colonel; “who will exchange?—a quiet one, of course.”
“Here you is, kurnel,” said Quashy, with a beaming countenance58, as he led forward his horse. “Quiet as a lamb, ’cept when you aggrawates him. Nebber goes no faster dan you wants him to,—sometimes not so fast! an’ wouldn’t run away even if you was to ax him on your knees.”
“After such recommendation,” said the colonel, turning to Manuela, “I suppose you will accept of this steed.”
The Inca princess accepted it with a beam of gratitude59 to Quashy, who thereupon mounted the runaway horse, and in a few minutes the whole cavalcade was sweeping60 over the plain as swiftly as ever.
Afternoon brought them to a solitary61 Gaucho18 hut. They came first upon the corral rather suddenly, for it was concealed62 in a hollow. It was an enclosure of strong rough posts stuck into the ground, on many of which were perched a number of gorged63 vultures and hawks64.
The ground around it was covered with bones, bullocks’ horns, wool, carcasses of horses, and other refuse, which induced the travellers to keep carefully to windward of it. On a slight rising ground, close at hand, stood the mud hut of the family to which it belonged.
Although living in a state little short of savagery65, this family, being descended67 from one of the best old families of Spain—at least, so they believed—maintained much of the dignity, good manners, and ceremony that characterised the old Spaniards. It comprised several generations, of whom a great-great-grandfather, blind, deaf, and benignant, formed the head, and a baby, fat, wide awake, and uproarious, formed the tail. Between these there was a band of men, women, girls, and boys, whom we will not even attempt to describe, further than to say that they were all black-eyed, sunburnt, and more or less pretty and handsome.
The travellers rode up to the door of the mud mansion68, and, according to Pampas etiquette69, awaited permission to dismount. This was quickly given with much urbanity by a handsome middle-aged70 man, who was the active head of the household.
The intention of Colonel Marchbanks was to take a hasty meal here, and push on as far as possible before night. Finding that the Gauchos were engaged at that time in breaking in some young horses, he ordered his party to off-saddle, and went with Pedro, Lawrence, and some others towards the corral while food was being prepared.
Quashy—ever mindful of the welfare of others, and ever thoughtful in regard to what he esteemed71 the most important things of life—hung behind to advise a daughter of the house to prepare a specially72 tender fowl73 for Susan, Manuela, and Mariquita. He even remained a few minutes to receive from the damsel a lesson in cookery.
This daughter of the Pampas whispered something to a very small brother beside her, who was remarkable74 chiefly for the size of his gorgeous eyes and the scantiness75 of his costume. With ready obedience76 the urchin77 unhooked a miniature lasso from the wall, and lassoed a large hen. How the brother and sister executed that hen was not obvious.
It was, however, quickly and effectively done between them. Then the sister took the bird to a pot of water, which chanced to be boiling at the time, and put it therein, feathers and all. To civilised people this might have seemed rather a savage66 process, but it was not so. The object was merely to simplify the plucking. After scalding, the feathers came off with wonderful facility, and also stuck to the girl’s wet hands with equally wonderful tenacity79. Washing her hands, she next cut off the wings and legs of the fowl, and then separated the breast from the back. These portions she put into a small pot with some suet and water, and threw the rest away.
“Das bery good,” remarked Quashy, nodding his head in approval, after which he advised the girl to treat another fowl or two in a similar manner, and then followed his master to the corral.
Here a very animated80 scene was being enacted81. Half a dozen young horses were about to be mounted for the first time and broken in. What modern horse-trainers of the tender school would have said to the process we cannot tell. Having had no experience in such matters, one way or another, we hazard no opinion. We merely state the facts of the case.
The father of the family, mounted on a strong and steady horse, commenced the business by riding into the corral, and throwing his lasso over the head of a young horse, which he dragged forcibly to the gate. Every step of the process was forcible. There was nothing equivalent to solicitation82 or inducement from beginning to end. Opposition83, dogged and dire84, was assumed as a matter of course, and was met by compulsion more dogged and more dire!
At the gate of the corral the end of the lasso was received by the eldest85 son of the family, a tall, strapping86, and exceedingly handsome youth, of about twenty-three, who had been named Pizarro,—no doubt after the conqueror87 of Peru. He certainly resembled his namesake in courage, vigour88, and perseverance89, if in nothing else. The young horse displayed great unwillingness90 at first to quit its companions,—shaking its magnificent mane, and flourishing its voluminous tail in wild disdain91 as it was dragged out.
But the moment it found itself outside the corral, its first idea was to gallop away. A jerk of the lasso checked him effectually. Another member of the household then deftly92 threw his lasso in such a manner that the prancing93 steed put its feet in it, and was caught just above the fetlocks. With a powerful twitch94 of this second lasso its legs were pulled from under it, and it fell with tremendous violence on its side. Before it could rise the young Gaucho forced its head to the ground and held it there, then drew his long knife, and therewith, in a few seconds, cut off its mane. Another Gaucho performed the same operation on the hair of its tail—both acts being done, as they explained, to indicate that the horse had been once mounted.
Meanwhile Pizarro quickly put a strong hide halter on the animal’s head, and a piece of hide in his mouth to serve as a bit. He also girthed a saddle on him, and, when all was ready, ordered the men who held him to let go. At the same moment he sprang into the saddle and held on.
Holding on was the point on which Pizarro had to concentrate all his attention and power during the next few minutes, for the way in which that outraged95 and intensely fierce creature strove to unseat him is alike beyond the power of description and conception. Jumping, plunging, kicking, rearing, bounding, and pirouetting are all sufficiently96 expressive97 terms in their way, but they are mild words with which to describe the proceedings of that creature of the Pampas while under the influence of temporary insanity98. With ears flat on its neck, nostrils99 distended, and eyes emitting something almost like flames, the young horse absolutely screamed in its fury; but all was in vain. As well might it have tried to shake off its own tail as Pizarro!
Suddenly it changed its plan, and stretched out its sinewy100 length to its longest stride. Pizarro fell in with the idea, encouraged it with his long sharp spurs and heavy lash24, and away they went over the mighty101 plain like a streak102 of personified lightning.
It is useful sometimes to let wilful103 people not only have their way, but compel them to continue it. John Gilpin’s spirit, when he said—
“’Twas for your pleasure you came here;
You shall go back for mine.”
is not unknown on the Pampas and the prairie:
After sailing away over the plain, like a ship going out to sea, until it was a mere78 speck104 on the horizon, Pizarro’s horse thought it time to reduce its pace; but here Pizarro did not agree with it. He applied105 whip and spur until his steed was quite exhausted106. Then he turned homewards, and galloped back to the corral, into which he turned the animal in a very broken and humble107 state of mind. There it found several young friends who had just been subdued108 in a similar manner, and it is not altogether improbable that they spent the remainder of that evening in comparing notes!
“A roughish method, but—aw—effective,” remarked the sportsman to his friend.
This was true. Perhaps Quashy’s remark to Lawrence was equally true:—
“Dat dood it pritty slick, massa; but I’ve seed it as well dood, p’r’aps better, by kindness.”
There is this, at all events, to be said in regard to the rough system, that no man but an athlete could endure the fatigue of the process, while any man—or even woman—has physical strength sufficient to conquer by love, if only he, or she, possess the requisite109 patience and milk of human kindness.
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