AN INGENIOUS THEFT.
The native races along the southern coast of South America are described as professional wreckers and thieves. Their practices are thus mentioned by the author of “The Cruise of the Falcon,’ ‘One sailor is sitting, half-asleep, on his sea-chest. A guacho quietly comes up, and taps him on the back, ‘ Bueno, Johnny; bueno, J ohnny. ’ ‘lf you are not off, I’ll send a bullet into you,’ says Ja:k, ‘ Bueno, Johnny ; bueno ; till to-morrow and off skulks the guacho to his horse, which he mounts. With a sardonic smile lie takes off his hat to Jack, bids him farewell, and digging his spurs into the flanks of his wiry little horse, leans over his neck, and is off at full gallop over the short grass of the sandy plains. At the first stride of the horse, to Jack’s intense surprise, his box is wrenched violently from under him. He jumps up, rubs his eyes, and, before he can recover his senses, he sees his property roll in g and bumping away over the sandhills, at the heeis of the gaucho’s steed ; for this clever gentleman had managed to make one end of his lassoo fast to the handle of Jack’s box while engaged in conversa’ion with him.
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 170, 4 November 1892, Page 7
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209AN INGENIOUS THEFT. Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 170, 4 November 1892, Page 7
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