Bill had been in the habit of calling all Spaniards "greasers," just as the average Spaniard spoke of all Americans as "gringos," or heathenish foreigners.

"You didn't hire me to chase greasers, Donovan.

Tige ain't got no likin' fer greasers sence then.

Farther on, whilst passing through a plantain-patch, we saw the greasers some way off in our rear, watching us, running to and fro, and seemingly exercised with preparation for attacking.

They held their rifles in the hand cocked, and, as they advanced, threw their eyes sharply into the bushes on either side the road,having received orders to shoot the first greaser that showed himself, without awaiting the word.

It was the occasion of much bitter cursing that there should be delay until this was accomplished, and of one man's protesting seriously that it was, and had been, General Walker's endeavor, not to whip the greasers, but to get as many Americans killed in Nicaragua as possible,he nourishing secret and implacable hatred against them for some cause.

Then we went to look at the man in the road; he wur a greaser too.