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praising the bulls who could make such or such a rent, and thus consoling themselves for having missed the fight itself.

A TOWER Photograph by Harlow D. Higinbotham

To-day there are no fewer than seventeen dead horses as a result of the Corrida. On another occasion I saw twenty-three perish in the ring. "What do they do with all these bodies?" we ask. A boy, noting our expressions of disgust, replies in Spanish, "Oh, they make sausages and ship them to America!" And now one word about the fate of Espartero, who shared that day the honors with