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Show I TERVIB": Pedro Carranza Page 9 father which I grieved more. In that time when Argumedo was there, was when we returned. ·One day as I was going to tmvn t buy a half a load of wood for three cents, one of the Argumedistas who were still in possession of the town there, grabbed me and put me on his horse and took me with him. He was a lieutenant colonel. He took me where his wife was cooking and he said to me, from now on you are my errand boy and my assistant and you are to polish my boots and have everything ready for me, etc., etc. You are to take care of my woman with your life. He gave me a pistol and a carbine, and I could not handle the carbine, they were heavier in those times, so big! But in no way, and then trembling and whitever it be, even though I had been raised in the country since I was small with my grandfather at the age of five and ~lways having been enclosed in a monastary or a small parish, one lost all that which one had before gained: the liberty, and also that of courage. And that is why with fear and trembling, I did not return home, with no way to escape. I was with them for six months in the surrounding area , from San Luis Potosi of Aguas Calientes as far as Fresnio, and as far as Real Del Pino. I became acquainted with many towns that I had never known before in the surrounding |
