24 OBSERVATIONS OF A RANCHWOMAN 



busy ranchero for the most part learns to 

 content himself for a year or two. 



A simple receipt for acquiring the lingo in 

 connected phrases seems to be as follows : 

 Sit down hard somewhere near the tail-end 

 of every other word, and bawl. Or, as was 

 once somewhat pithily remarked, shout in 

 scallops, and don't forget to swallow the 

 lowest point of each scallop. 



The interminable pow-wow of the Mexican 

 who wanders to the American's ranch to 

 trade or buy is an unmitigated nuisance. 

 The object of the former is, of course, to 

 satisfy his desires at less than cost. The 

 moment arrives when the exasperated 

 ranchera is driven to muster her best 

 Mexican for the purpose of observing, with 

 more vim, perhaps, than courtesy : 



4 If you have time to say the same thing 

 over twenty times, / have not. I must work. 

 Adios, senor !' 



4 Trabajo ?' this with smiling disbelief. 

 ' Ah, no, no !' 



Then the argument sets in eta capo. 

 Meantime an annoyed guard-dog is striving 

 to escape the restraining hand. 



