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Do you not know who was Ijurra? Well, it's weird! Don Manuel Fuentes
Ijurra was for the year 1790 the richest boy in Peru, as it held in the Cerro de Pasco a silver mine, who for fifteen years he produced 1200 frames per box. This was to cut chisel.
Ijurra was a waxen ugly, ugliness had more than a single Christian meets and falls, embossed with his unkempt in dress. However, he was pompous and spender, provided that their field to give largesse that he spoke. So when in front of witnesses, especially if they were males who dress over her head, calling him a penny of charity, riot Ijurra pocket and gave a few ounces of gold, saying: "Assist, brother, and forgive the small size." By contrast, if a widow or other needed embarrassing happened to him in secret, asking a charity, Ijurra answered: "I do not I feed or idle hussy: work the Bausan, which has good backs, or go to the digger tambo and portals. "
not want to talk about sexual conquests made Ijurra, thanks to its flow, because this issue could take away. As he swiped the girl no less than the ruler Valladares subject to whom I had the displeasure to meet personally, but for which long I have news for today left at the bottom of the inkwell.
Visto is, therefore, that it had seized Ijurra devil vanity and that he was always a dead letter evangelical precept "do not let your left as you give your right." The luxury of your home, car wheels in silver and the splendor of their banquets formed time.
In those times that were not in vogue marble tubs and the plumbing system to bring water to the rooms, wealthy people used to moisturize the skin in wooden vats. The streets of Lima were not channeled like today, but crossed by canals repugnant to the sight and smell. Neighbors to prevent the boards dry out and shed its shell, did put the tubs in the ditch for a couple of hours. For
Mr. Ijurra vain extravagance had to soak in a tub ditch solid silver. Accounts
that one day he sent twenty-five lashes applied to a English employee at the mine. The hit put the outcry and criminal charges filed against Ijurra. The process lasted two years, presenting to the insolent looks bad Creole. He realized that despite his millions in danger of going to jail, and to avoid sought advice from the pillow, which incidentally, is better than the state advisor.
Presentósele the next day the clerk to notify a court order, and after signing the measure, pretending to mistake the saving Ijurra, poured on the process the huge silver bucket that served as a fountain. The clerk, seeing the sudden flood of ink, held his head in his hands, crying:
- Jesus help me! I'm lost!
"Do not be alarmed," interrupted Ijurra-blur that size, I use this sand.
And taking a sack stuffed with gold ounces over the process began, magical resource that was enough to soothe the spirit the cartulary, who do not know how he wrote to the judge. Go
if the poet was right who wrote this quatrain
"The sign of the clerk, says an astrologer
English
the sign of Cancer is
eats it all Christian."
The good news is that the whipping, seeing that he had two years of litigation and it was a matter of starting over again fondled waste paper, agreed to a compromise and keep the plush pelucones change.
"not without foundation," says a friend of mine, that all is metallic, from the grip least heartbeat. "
II
In Still Life Street was an Italian watchmaker, which bore a curious on the counter table clock. It was a clock towers, bells, puppets, singing bird and who knows what other dolls automatic. For those times was a real curiosity, which the owner asked three thousand duret, but the clock there was months and months without finding a buyer.
Bodegones The store was a place of gathering for contemporary dandies bailiff Viceroy Gil y Lemos, several of which said one afternoon the watch:
- Per Bacco! Much of that Peru is rich and lavish the Peruleros, and we Sorrento Santa Madonna! land that is filthy and cominera people. In Europe it would have sold the Travelling clock in a twinkling of an eye, and in Lima, no man who has to buy pants.
Ijurra news came to the sad notion that the Italian had the children of Peru, and without further investigation took cape and hat, and followed by three black men charged with as many bags of a thousand, came into the watch saying very angrily: "Listen
not Fifirriche, and learn parenting stingy for not calling to give him bread to eat. Mine is the clock, and now see very shameful if the Peruvians make money.
Ijurra went out the door of the shop threw the clock to the ground, smashed with the heel of the boot, and the boys who at the time spent stretched out on the shattered fragments.
One of the parishioners of the watch did not have to look good this outburst of vanity, or nationalism, because the miner walked away shouted
- Ijurra! Ijurra! No need to rush the ass! -Words that significant fall that after the fortune could turn his back, as so aimlessly squandered his gifts.
The truth is that these words were to Ijurra as gypsy curse, for a few days later I got horses buster Lima on mine manager with the fatal news that it had been flooded.
How true is that the misfortunes fall together, as the dog with sticks, and that evil enters and exits strokes thumbs!
Ijurra spent the good fortune that was left in to drain the mine, firms that neither he nor his grandchildren, who still live in the Cerro de Pasco, were performed. And this failure and lost heavily in the game so completely ruined it, who died in a cave in the hospital of San Andres.
This is the case with the saying that "World, scene, born in the palace and end in tavern."
Since then stayed for sentence Lima popular saying to people who squander their wealth without taking care of tomorrow:
- Ijurra! No need to rush the ass!
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