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rider mounts again. If not, if the beast cannot be urged to rise, a short sharp knife inserted in the brain ends the brief minutes of torture, which are perhaps less cruel than the long years of ill-treatment and overwork which would have been allotted to the horse had it not been bought by the contractor who supplies equine victims to make these Spanish holidays. You may ask indignantly, "And do the Spanish really love these sights?" Not so; they seldom see them; their eyes are following the enraged bull, the clever agile fighters. The horse, once gored, is instantly forgotten. The chulos lead away the mangled animal unnoticed. It is only the unaccustomed Anglo-Saxon eye that dwells on its suffering and death, and thus misses the marvelous feats of dexterity and skill performed by the toreros in transferring the scene of the combat to another quarter. Often, however, these very animals, after external traces of their
 * imal has still sufficient life, the saddle is re-adjusted, and the