| Show Ilrilllant TJcsrJotloa of a Hull light Klghl buils had been announced U > np > ear and It wa < I believe the lastauuday of the icison The Kpettaelo was a brilliant one the Klug the Queen and the Infanta were all in their places There were music and sunshine wild cries tamping of the fett and hisses liandkerchlefs were waived hats throun In thealr The spectacle is a unique one of overpowering grandeur gran-deur I begin after time to enter Into the spirit of the thing and to take an Interest in what was going on though I had gone there against my inclinations and with a sliuj der of disgust In full I view of this butchery carried on with the utmost ut-most refinement of cruelty I was aMo to maintain a tranquil air sustained sus-tained i by my pride rai did not once turn my eyes away One leaves ties scene slightly intoxicated with jlootl so to say and feeling a doiro to thrust a lance into the neck ot every chance > ersou one meets stuck my knife into the melon I was cutting at Liblc as if It were a iandcnlla I were planting in the side of n bull riul the pulp seemed like the palnitatlni Ihsi of the wounded animal The tight is one that makes the knees tremble and the head throb It Is a leon in murder Yet these men are elegant ind graceful and notwithstanding I their extreme agility their movements I move-ments are dignllled 111 < noble Home jieople regard this duel be necn man and brute in which the I alter sxxuis to have so much the advantage ad-vantage both In size and strength over the former as a noble specIe cle but can it with truth be railed a duel I whenoneknows from the first i W which I of tho combatants it Is that must succumb I will confess it1I I n i that there is something to cat Irate the imagination iu the sight of the mutailr with his brilliant costume that dLplay tho graceful contours of his tlgure lie places himself after thrice saint lug Cite spectators jut In front of Die animal and stands calm and clfpo < cssed his cloak on his arm his sword In his hanJ And this i I I the best art of the performance for E far there is scarcely any blood sited As for the sufferings of the horse the Spaniards themselves do I not like that I art of IL Slave I become be-come reconciled then to tills barbarous bar-barous amuscuient I do not ny that but it i has its grand almost I hiroic side In this amphitheatre with its fourteen or fifteen thousand spectators we seem to catch a fllmpseof antiquity that antiquity I I so much admire Hut on the other hand it has also its sanguinary sanguin-ary its horrible its ignoble side I I the men who engage in it were less skilful I they were more often to receive a serious wound or two I should fay nothing Slut what revolts me III I I this exhibition exhibi-tion of human cowardice Yet h I said the profession at a matador requires the courage of a lion I do not think so These men know very well how to avoid the attacks of the brute terrible I I true but attacks I which they themselves have provoked and which they are prepared pre-pared for Tho real danger I In I the I case of the iMndcrilcro here the man invites the attack of the ani mil and jut as tho latter U about 11 J I to transfix him with 1 ol his horns anticipates an-ticipates him by planting his ban dcntlas between the shoulders of the brute For this exceptional courage and skill are required from the Journal of Jarie liadJirlrj U tellii Company Aeic JTrZ |
