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Show Spanish Love of Bloodshed. In the midst of all the distress and misory I could not help noticing how 1 bloodthirsty tho race is. A mother and 1 daughter were Btanding by mo when 1 tho last cow was killed. The butcher I very skillfully stood by the side of the 1 animal, reached to his spine and plunged 1 a knife into it, withdrew it and plunged I it in again, and repeated the oporation 1 a third time, when tho poor beast fell 1 over dead. I instinctively turned away 1 from tho sight, and was Horrified to note 1 tho intense interest tho women were 1 taking in it and how their eyes glistoned 1 with pleasure as they murmured their I approbation of tho butcher'a skill. I 1 may, of courso, hayo judged them I wrongfully; it may have been tho de- light with which they wore anticipating tho coming meal, but I don't think there could bo any mistake tho ex-H ex-H pression of their faces ciearly showed H how they enjoyed tho spectacle of blood-I blood-I shed and slaughter, James II. IIiuo in Collier's Weekly. |