For drinking, a large earthenware jug of water served the whole party.

Yet this man was the owner of several square miles of land, of which nearly every acre would produce corn, and, with a little trouble, all the common vegetables.

The evening was spent in smoking, with a little impromptu singing, accompanied by the guitar.

The signoritas all sat together in one corner of the room, and did not sup with the men.
(PLATE 16.

RECADO OR SURCINGLE OF GAUCHO.) So many works have been written about these countries, that it is almost superfluous to describe either the lazo or the bolas.