Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1880-12-27
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picador who had dared to defend his horse
was put in prison.
And how does the matador kill the bull !?
All! it is then that the spectacle becomes
dull, long and tiresome indeed The espada
waits until the bull chooses to offer himself
to him under good conditions. But, unfor-
tunately. the breathless animal does not al
ways lend himself to these whims. Why
should he, inasmuch as he does not know
exactly what is wanted of hin.
There is a sudden lightning of steel; the
torero has sprung forward. There is a tenn
pest of misses. He has missed his aim
Good he tries again. This time the sword
has entered up to the hilt But the bull does
not fall. On the contrary, he seems to have
made up his mind to take a walk leisurely
around the arena. Ten minutes pass. The
animal is still firm upon his legs. The pub
Lie become tired and roar out:
'Otra espada !''-(another sword
They bring the other sword, and the mata-
dor plunges his second weapon up to the hilt
beside the first.
At Azpeita 1 saw bull which had three
swords buried in him, one after the other,
and which still continued to walk about For
whole half hour he refused to fall, and you
can imagine how much the people were
amused during that half hour
At Bilboa I saw another bull which had a
sword plunged halfway into his neck, and
remained standing for twenty-seven minutes,
w-A;le the baalderilleros forced him to keep
turning his head, first to the right and then
to the left, in order that the blade of the
sword should sink in further at each move
ment. And when this was over, and the hilt
was touching the animals skin, he persisted
in refusing to die. and they had to knock
him on the head to finish him
And finally saw Lagartijo, that espada
held to be the last representative of the old
classic school of matadors, pierce bull six
times with his sword before he could make
him fall
The most astonishing characters in all this
bloody farce are the two men in red caps who
rake the sand of the arena and keep it smooth
They remain there the whole time as tranquil
as Baptiste, calmly raking away without SO
much as turning their heads and paying as
little attention to the bull as if he never ex-
isted
And while the banderilleros go and come,
and shout and almost jump out of their bod
les in order to make US think it is frigttfully
dangerous, the rakers go raking without
looking to right or left. The bull pays no
attention to them, and they pay none to the
bull
And when expressed my astonishment at
this spectacle to Spaniard, and said to him;
'sWhy, there is no danger at all ~ the good
man seemed embarrassed, and being of frank
character, finally answered
''It is true. 1t was very clumsy to have
allowed those rakers to remain there"
What the Spaniards really seek in these di-
versions is the sight of blood pouring out and
certain horrors which refrain from mention
ing at all.
And the proof of what say is that after
each exhibition the male and female specta-
tors go to the charnelhouse, in which are
heaped in pool of blood and torn entrails
the fifteen or twenty dead horses, with their
gaping wounds, their eyes staring from their
orbits, and their tongues protruding between
their long teeth.
The beautiful women in mantillas go there
and smile and play with their fans, and chat,
and look upon those hideous sights without
shudder!