A LONG WAIT FOR REVENGE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1519, 29 March 1887, Page 3

A LONG WAIT FOR REVENGE.

A striking example of constancy ia an Implaoabto yearning for vengeance is furnished by the case of the Spaniard Poriggros, who, sentenced to death for murder, was respited at tho last moment, not wit hatanding his entreaty that the capital sentence might be carried out. When quite a child, Perigqros, one day returning frone>BohooJ, climbed over the wall cf a garden filled with peach and S3 trees, his objeot being to fill his pockets with the tempting fruit. He did so fill his pockets, but, ju«t as ha wat making iff with his booty, the owner of the garden caught sight of him and soundly ib/ashta him for his larceny, Tho boy, smarting under the oaitigation he hrd received, awore to himself that later on, when he beoame a man, he would take his revenge. The ohild grew up ; years passed ; he aotvad his time as a soldier, after which fie returned to the locaity where the garden eoene bad been enacted Lapse of time had not abated one jot of his revengeful feeling towards the man who had corrected him with, perhaps, excessive harshness for a childish fault. He flung abuut tho viilago watching an op* portunity to gratify his animosity, and at length met with the person ha was seeking for, Pariggros oarried a hatchet m bis hand when the two met, and, before jhU victim oould otter a cry, he was felled to the ground, never to rUe again. The •■saeain was atretted, tried, and concletaafid to death, and bad prepared him•elf to meet his fate with marked indifference, when, against his will, he found tils sentence ohanged for one of bard labor for life, ____