COLOMBIA: Stormy Serenade

Casimiro Velandia of Bogotá owned a strain of the most belligerent fighting cocks in all Colombia; he was also the proud father of three pretty daughters. Last week these joys of Casimiro's life were sadly entangled.

On the eve of a championship cockfight some young bloods showed up to serenade the Señoritas Velandia. Flushed with tender sentiment and wine, they arrived at Casimiro's home with a band. Father Velandia beamed. But it went on & on, without regard for the fighting cocks roosting in a nearby tree. Casimiro grew nervous, then irritated, then thoroughly alarmed over the disturbed rest of his...

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