BUENOS AYRES. 



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and she is made to believe that the minister 

 and his gentlemen are the only pupils to whom 

 he gives lessons at the quinta. Her suspicions 

 have lately been manifested by an ugly-looking 

 black mark round one of the little man's eyes. 

 He admitted that the day he got that mark was 

 a mal dia for him ; leaving us to infer " furens 

 quid foemina possit" — what the lady was capa- 

 ble of in a real fit of jealousy. 



The North American squadron which was 

 stationed here, has just left Buenos Ayres on a 

 cruise. The Yankee officers as some of them 

 C€ guessed," " harmonized considerably" with 

 those of the North Star. One who lately joined 

 me accidentally in my ride, used pretty freely 

 the privilege of those travellers, who have sailed 

 round Cape Horn, of spinning a yarn to asto- 

 nish the inexperienced part of mankind. Talk- 

 ing of great distances performed by the gauchos 



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