Identifier: ramblesinsunnysp00ober (find matches)
Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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two or three horses ; and it is this feature of thespectacle that is the most revolting, for the poor horses are stood updefenceless to be slaughtered, and they are not always immediatelykilled, but are most shockingly lacerated. Sometimes, if they survivea fight, they are taken out, their gaping wounds sewn up, and usedagain. Like the bulls, they must be eventually killed. Six or eightbulls and from fifteen to twenty horses are slain in the average bull-fight. Each scene with each bull is but a repetition of that described,with slight variations. Just as soon as the bull is killed, a team ofgayly-decorated mules is driven in, the bull drawn out by his hornsand the horses by their necks, the gates again closed, sand swept overthe pools of gore, and another bull driven in to share the fate of hiscompanions. The second bull was not so game as the first, andwounded but two horses ; the third was a large brindled bull, whichwounded three ; the fourth was a coward, which was played with by
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SIGHT-SEEING IN SEVILLE. 185 a lasso-thrower (after the Mexican style); the fifth was tailed, —thrown to the ground by a sharp jerk of his tail; the sixth killedone horse and wounded another, and the crowd clamoring for hisdeath and the espada failing to kill him, the butcher was called in,who stuck him with a short sharp knife behind the horns; theseventh was very game, and would not die, though stuck by theswordsman three times, but fell at the hands of the butcher. Thenthe crowd called the espada a buzzard, and other opprobrious names,and hurled oranges at him instead of cigars, as at the successful ones.This bull was finally lassoed and killed, and the eighth and last waslet in. He had his horns padded, so that he could not gore anybody,and a crowd of beggars were let loose, who tormented him to theirhearts content. When the sport ended, the sun had droppedbehind the western hills, and everybody was weary. We were dis-gusted and ashamed, but had sat through it all, and our Histo

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