Libro Argentine Textiles

‘The gaucho knows how to make his bed On the open plain withthe sky o´erhead. When some grassy spot by the trail he´s found, He spreads his saddle-gear on the ground, The leather’carona’ first; then next, The ‘lomillo’ for his pillows fixed, And the woolly pelt of the saddle-seat, Covers all, like a mattress soft and sweet. Then wrapped in his ‘poncho’ against the dew, He sleeps safeand sound the whole night through.