The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-06-29

with wheelbarrow to cart away the
bloody sand after the death. Men and
horses and mules are gaudily tricked
out, the men wearing silk stockings,
knee breeches, a ruffled shirt, short
jacket and a round cap. There is an-
other blare of the trumpet and the bull
PUSHES into the ring from q side gate.
with rosette Of bright colored paper
pinned to his left shoulder. Six Of the
bull fighters, capeadores, with their
red cloaks, and the two horsemen.
picadores are In the ring to meet him.
A rule of the ring is that the bull can.
not be struck unless he first attacks.
The picadores have the first turn and
they try to get him to attack their
poor old spawned, blind.folded horses.
(The horses that are used for this noble
sport are worth s. apiece.) He
is generally not slow to do this
and when he makes the
attack they try to ward him off with
prod, such as is used by cattle men
in getting stock onto cars. The bull
rarely pays any attention to this prod,
and the horse and rider 60 down before
his charge. The capcadores rush up
with their cloaks and the bull attacks
these new foes who nimbly avoid his
assault. If the horse is still able to
bear his rider, he is jerked to his feet
and again spurred round the ring, no
matter how badly he may be gored.
If he is too badly hurt he is hurried
out of the arena, to die outside. When
this part of the game has proceeded
long enough-it usually lasts until a
horse is killed-the trumpets sound
again and the pickadorcs retire and
the banderilleros take their turn.
Each of these carries in each hand q
banderillO, stick about an inch
thick, 2 feet long, with steel barb in
the end, and gaily ornamental with
paper and tinsel. They get the bull
to attack them, and as he rushes Al
them with head down they thrust
their bandcrillos into either shoulder
and spring out of the way. The trich
requires good nerves and great agility
but the men are skilful and rarely fail
Each of the banderiiteros plants his
barbs in this way until or pairs o
the gaudy sticks are dangling from
the crimsoned shoulders of the tortured
bull. When the banderillos are all
planted the trumpet again sounds, ant
the naatalor, the star performer whose
business it is to kill the bull, stepl
jauntily into the ring, bows low to thu
managers and to the applauding spec
tators, and advances toward the bull
with a red cloak in his LETT hand and a
long, straight sword in the right. He
plays with the bull awhile, taunting il
with the cloak, and avoiding its en-
ragged charge. Finally as it rushes at
him he thrusts the sword just in front
of the right shoulder, the blade passing
under the shoulder blade and into the
vitals. The poor beast bellows with
pain, he staggers to his knees and the
crimson blood gushes from his mouth
and nOstrils. But he has great vitality
and it is several minutes before he
gives over the fight and falls, to
receive the finishing stroke at the base
of the brain from the short knife of
the butcher and he dragged away by
the team of mules. Repeat the pro-
ceedings have endeavored to describe
until six bulls are killed and you have
a Mexican bull-fight.
Wv
When you first begin to look at the
combat, you are afraid the men may
get killed. It is soon evident, h oweyer
that there is little danger of this for
they can leap over the fence or run be-
hind the board screens when too hard
pressed, and your sympathies
go out to the poor horses
who are compelled to receive
an Alta ok from an enemy they cannot
see. And you sympathize with the
bull, too. These bulls are magnificent
animals. Bred for the purpose, red,
rather small, medium length dropping
horns, trim limbs. Nearly all of them
land when they kill a horse or
give a man particularly close call the
people applaud and cry Bravo torro"
however, one is brought in
not fight, and thepeople hiss
and cry out "a la lecherie" :'Take
him to the daryl" Thus indirectly
that he is an old COW any,
way. 1t is blood-thirsty crowd, this
audience. 1t especially delights to
zee horses gored. and denounces the
as stingy and penurious
unless the picadores are kept in the
ing till this happens. And it never
to express its sentiments as
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