True, I have enough occupation, as you may have by this time discovered, in looking after our neighbours, the _Indios bravos_, who, knowing the skeleton of a regiment I've got, are growing saucier every day.

I only wish I had a score or two of your stalwart trappers, who now and then pay a visit to Albuquerque.

Well, my sister will soon be here, and she, brave girl, has plenty of life in her, though she be but young.

What a joyous creature she is, wild as a mustang filly fresh caught.

I wish, Don Francisco, you could have stayed to make her acquaintance.