In this instance they set up the poor criminals at long range, like so many targets, and practiced on them--kept them hopping about and dodging bullets for half an hour before they managed to drive the center.
When a man steals cattle, they cut off his right hand and left leg and nail them up in the marketplace as a warning to everybody.

Their surgery is not artistic.

They slice around the bone a little, then break off the limb.

Sometimes the patient gets well; but, as a general thing, he don't.

However, the Moorish heart is stout.