active to meet their contrivements

Maybe they would learn to raiſe the picke. / I am for 'um. They are very modeſt; tis a fine preludium.[…]

They called him caballero for all his sixteen years and he sat with his hat pushed back and his boots crossed before him and ate beans and napolitos and a machaca made from dried goatmeat that was rank and black and stringy and dusted with dry red pepper for traveling.

Nickname: the Granite City