"You drunken Greaser swab!" snarled Handy Solomon.

"I'll kill you sure, you Greaser, as soon as my hands are free!"

"You can kiss the Book on it, you ain't," went on Handy Solomon easily, "nor me, nor Pulz, nor the Greaser, nor the Nigger, nor none of us all together.

"Darrin is no greaser.

We've got to fight the backfire of our American commercialism, and the prejudice which is as real on the Texas side of the river as it is on the other; for if the Mexican thinks in terms of 'gringo,' the American of the Southwest is just as likely to think in terms of 'greaser.'

On the top of the mountain, in ordinary years a sure sign of a coming storm, floated a veil of opaline sea mist ... I found Pap and a greaser skinning a dead heifer.

"You've noted," he said, "that a greaser jest naterally hates ter handle mares.

And, Jack, are you going to stand by and see robbery done by the meanest, most worthless greaser in the valleyand a good Indian the victim?"

On the outskirts of Eldara there was a little shack owned by a MexicanJosé, he was called, and nothing else, "Greaser" José.

It was the house of Greaser José.

All through the work of fire-fighting Greaser José was everywhere about the house, flinging buckets of water through the windows into the red furnace within; his wife and the two children stood stupidly, staring, dumb.

The greaser trail.

The greaser trail, by Peter Henry Morland, pseud.

The greaser trail.

The greaser trail, by Peter Henry Morland, pseud.

They had him hung, in their own minds, before the greaser quit kicking.

It's for daring to say, last night in my place, that the Committee is rotten to the core, and that they murdered Sandy McTavish in cold blood when they took him out and hung him for killing that greaser in self-defense.

"Last week," he went on hotly, "an evil gringo with the clay of his burrowings still upon his garments cursed me and called me greaser because I did not give him all the road for his burro.

Briefly, he had long had in mind a trip down to the Picardo ranch, just to see the boys and the country and have a talk over the stirring events of the past month; and, he added, he wanted to bring Jack his pistols himself, because it was not reasonable to expect any greaser to withstand the temptation of keeping them, once he got them in his hands.

I didn't send it all down; didn't like the looks of thater" He checked himself on the point of saying greaser.

" "Don't miss the ball given by Joe the Greaser, and Sam Rosenstock, at Odd Fellows' Hall, January 29th.

What chiefly infuriated him was that the insult should come from one whom he considered a "greaser," a man of inferior race.

Yes, I am a greaser.

But from Coronado, whose life he had saved and whose evil work he had undertaken to dofrom this man, "greaser" as he was, he did expect a sally.

Since the splendid decapitation which Coronado had performed, Texas respected him as he had never heretofore hoped to respect a "greaser.