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A thing not so easily determined; for in the chase after it, the ostrich had made more than one double; and, although tolerably familiar with the topography of that plain, the gaucho is for the time no little confused as to his whereabouts.— Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
This a tree, a grand vegetable giant of the species called ombu_, known to every gaucho--beloved, almost held sacred by him, as affording shade to his sun-exposed and solitary dwelling.— Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
Then the gaucho is witness to an exhibition of grief and rage, both wild as ever agitated the breast of a boy CHAPTER SIXTEEN DEAD Once more the sun is going down over the pampa, but still nothing seen upon it to cheer the eyes of the Senora Halberger, neither those first missing, nor they who went after.— Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
With like speed and dexterity, they join them together, in a rough but firm stitching done by the nimble fingers of the gaucho--his thread a strip of thong, and for needle the sharp terminal spine of the pita plant--one of which he finds growing near by.— Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
For the gaucho, having a stronger stomach, and consequently a quicker digestion than the others, feels some incipient sensations of hunger I only wish," he says, "we could get hold of one of the brutes that battered us so in the stream.— Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco

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