" "I had a reason," declared Racey Dawson, threading a new rawhide string through one of the silver conchas on his split-ear bridle.

[Footnote 2: conchas = 'shells.'

Tenemos una caja de conchas.

En los arrecifes yacen hermosas plantas marinas y conchas.

Until quite recently, when American organized capital secured control of many of the leading factories in Cuba, it was possible to identify a cigar, in size and shape, by some commonly employed name, such as perfectos, conchas, panetelas, imperiales, londres, etc.

Concepcion, or Concha, as she was affectionately called by her parents, was only fifteen years old when our story beginsa tall, slender girl with masses of fine black hair and the fair Castilian skin, inherited from her mother.

"A few hours later, Concha, on the qui vive with excitement, saw her brother approaching with a little company of men, among whom was a tall well-built Russian officer, whose keen eyes seemed to take in every detail of the little settlement.

With a chain of missions and ranchos extending from San Diego to San Francisco, there was much interchange of hospitality, and Concha was a favorite guest at all fiestas.

Concha must be sent away.

"But Concha was no longer the docile girl of a month ago.

In the end the pleading of Concha and the arguments of Rezánov won.

The sweet grey eyes of Luis' young wife were closed in death and Concha's heart and hands went out in sympathetic love and deeds to the stricken family, all the while trying to still in her own breast the fear that a like fate had overtaken her loved one.

SEE Espina de Serna, Concha.

DE SERNA, CONCHA ESPINA.

SEE Espina de Serna, Concha.

ESPINA DE SERNA, CONCHA.

SEE Espina de Sern Concha.

SERNA, CONCHA ESPINA DE.

SEE Espina de Serna, Concha.

SEE Espina, Concha.

DE SERNA, CONCHA ESPINA.

SEE Espina de Serna, Concha.

Persæpe velut qui Junonis sacra ferret: Habebat sæpe ducentos, Sæpe decem servos: Modò reges atque tetrarchas, Omnia magna loquens: Modò sit mihi mensa tripes, et Concha salis puri, et toga, quæ defendere frigus, Quamvis crassa, queat.

Aside from pride in his work, he took special pride in his equipment, keeping his bits and conchas polished and his leather gear oiled.

But the sun is getting high; Petites Coquilles has been passed and left astern, the eastern end of Las Conchas is on the after-larboard-quarter, the briny waters of Lake Borgne flash far and wide their dazzling white and blue, and, as the little boat issues from the deep channel of the Rigolets, the white-armed waves catch her and toss her like a merry babe.