In Patagonia...

"You´re not looking for a job, I suppose?" Milton Evans asked. It was lunchtime and he presented me with a slab of meat on the end of a small sword.
"Not particularly."
"Funny, you remind me of Bobby Dawes. Young Englishman, same as yourself, wandering around Patagonia. One day he walks up to an estancia and says to the owner: ´If you give me work, you´re a saint, and you´re wife´s a saint, and your children are angels, and that dog´s the best dog in the world.´But the owner syas, ´There is no work.´´In which case´ Bobby says, ýou´re the son of a whore, your wife is a whore, your children are both monkeys, and if i catch that dog, I´ll kick it´s arse till its nose bleeds.´"

Thanks to Bobby Bowley for the tipping me off about Bruce Chatwins excellent book - In Patagonia. Its a fine read even if you´ve no intentions of heading to this amazing land... For me it´s made me laugh a fair bit and added a lot of colour and history to some of the unexpected elements of Argentina (e.g. Welsh people, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Bobby Dawes).