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- 0:00Chapter No. Fifteen. I heard the drums coming down the street, and
- 0:05then the fife and the pipes, and then they came around the corner,
- 0:09all dancing. The street full of them. Mayera saw him, and then
- 0:13I saw him. When they stopped the music for the crouch, he hunched
- 0:17down in the street with them all, and when they started again he jumped
- 0:21up and went dancing down the street with them. He was drunk. All
- 0:24right, You go down after him, said Mayaierra. He hates me.
- 0:29So I went down and caught up with him and grabbed him while he was
- 0:32crouching down waiting for the music to break loose and said, come on,
- 0:36Louise, for Christ's sake, you've got bulls this afternoon. He didn't listen
- 0:41to me, he was listening so hard for the music to start. I
- 0:44said, don't be a damned fool, Louise, come on back to the
- 0:48hotel. Then the music started up again, and he jumped up and twisted
- 0:52away from me and started dancing. I grabbed his arm, and he pulled
- 0:56loose and said, oh, leave me alone, you're not My father went
- 1:00back to the hotel, and my arrow was on the balcony looking out to
- 1:03see if I'd be bringing him back. He went inside when he saw me
- 1:07and came downstairs disgusted. Well, I said, after all, he's just
- 1:11an ignorant Mexican savage, yes, Mara said, and who will kill his
- 1:17bulls after he gets a coheda? We I suppose, I said, Yes,
- 1:22we said Mayera. We killed the savages bulls, and the drunkard's bulls
- 1:26and the rial rial dancers bulls. Yes, we kill them. We kill
- 1:30them all right, yes, yes, yes, end of chapter fifteen