The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-28

bandilleros tbarbed arrows with ribbons at
tached) thrust through his skin, as he dashed
out to enrage him. The performers dance about
with flying colored cloths to confuse the ball.
some men on poor horses blindfolded (brutallyl
with spears. are ranged around the ring; the
maddened bull rushes at performer, he runs
behind his fence: the bull turns head down.
rushes at man OIL horseback who thrusts bis
pikeend into the beasts shoulder to keep him
off, but the beast dsregards it, raises horse and
all and thrusts his horn TO the hilt in the poor
horse which is soon carried out dying or dead,
and the bull attracted by the red cloaks shaken
at him, dashes in vain at the mer
who hide, while another bandilero
thrusts dexterousy two moro darts into
his shoulders taready bloody, and
confused by waving cloths, running men and
norses, shouts and shaken coats and handker-
chiefs OF the circliug crowd of gesticulsting men,
knows not which way to turn or dash; and the
actors grow more daring as the bull gets tired
and confused, but he makes dash, and man
narrowly escapes by the help Of other cloths
distracting the bull, when the furious animal
turns again, dashes his horns through another
horse whose rider rolls the dust under the horse
and hmps away as the bull turns away, and they
haul out the dead horse. And now the noise Is
fearful. Bottles, oranges hats, silver money by
handfuls, rs thrown into the ring lin blame or
praise), and the matador, seeing that the bull is
tired enough, gives a signal advances alone
with sword and red cloth, dasheS the latter
before the half blinded animal, leaps aside he
makes a dash at the cloth, and as the bull
dashes by thrusts, more or less skiAfully, the
sword at the neck of the animal Tin this case.
skillfully). and the sword goes to the hit in the
creatures chest, cutting the great arteries
Of the heart They bleed gush nru;ly
rushes at his enemy again, thus Fastening his
exhaustion, then he dashes again at the shaken
cloth, another stab of the sword the bull pants.
trembles. stands still-wavers, falls, men rush
out. one stabs him at the nape through the
spinal cord-the crowd yells, roars. surges--four
gaily caparisoned horses enter abreast are
hitched to the dead bulls horns. and, as the
band plays. they hurry the victim out to the
kitchen. If the fight has been good one." the
actors skiful, or fortunate, the bull plucky, the
crowd is pleased, and applauds; If the bull is
cowardly or tame or the actors awkward, the
crowd makes Kisses, throws oranges, pulque bot
ties, and yells itself hoarse in derision. Again,
and again, for four times are bulls brought In
and the same process gone through, with vary
ing accidents. One bull could not be killed, but
cleared the ring and intmidated the matador.
and the crowd was derisively wild. until the bull
was lassoed. and thrown, and despatched.
Another bull killed two horses, and l think
broke a mans leg. and the amphitheater
was pleased. Another bull dashed him
self blind against the refuge fences
in vain pursuit of his teasers, and was stabbed,
and so the brutal riot went on. At last the
fourth bull was dead, the ring cleared; crowd
OF ambitious youths-not in uniform, with
cloaks and cloths-poure6 into the ring; the bull
door opened, bull entered whose horns had
been sawed off half way and large balls put on
the blunt ends The youths leased him, and
escaped, until, suddenly, he made dash; this
time not at the rag but at the youth, tossed him,
threw him to the ground, and dashed at him
with his blunted horns, and before the hundred
other youths could distract the bulls attention
with their cries and cloths, the bull severely in
jured him with his blunt horns, and dashed
around after the others of Ii: his tormentors. And
.r.n..s went On until the bull was lassoed hauled
out to serve another time as training for the
youths; and the crowd was fast thinning, the
locomotives blowing their departure signals, the
Americans sneaking away, all with expressions
of disgust on their faces. declaring the exhibition
brutal, that they never wanted TO see a--other,
and that they only came to see what the Mexi-
cans called amusement, SO they could tell it to
their friends at home, etc. But the next bull
fight not one of them was to be found in the city
till night. ID. W.