It's a devilish shame that a dozen tolerably well-armed men should be so helpless.

It's enough to justify the old woman's contempt for our sex." Coronado rode from wagon to wagon, delivering his reproofs, threats, and instructions in the plainest kind of Spanish.

At the signal to march, the drivers must file off two abreast, commencing on the right, and move at the fastest trot of the mules toward the canon.

If any scoundrel skulked, quitted his post, or failed to fight, he would be pistolled instanter by him, Coronado _sangre de Dios_, etc.! While he was addressing Aunt Maria's coachman, that level-headed lady called out, "Mr.Coronado, your very voice is cheering." "Mrs.Stanley, you are an example of heroism to our sex," replied the Mexican, with an ironical grin.
"What a brave, noble, intelligent man ?" thought Aunt Maria.

"If they were only all like him!" This business took up five minutes.