Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-29
"Git outr says he. wild a foine look O

off a ripe tomato? Yer ignorance is due
to your limited opportunities in the ar
thillery. Come down to the post says
he, AN we'll give you dhrink'
'Sure, captain, Oh was as dhry as a
last years goord, an seein the humor av
it | tuck Jacks arm, wild me flown
skirts clutched up in me hand, an we
paraded down to the videttes Its sora
more Oi know av what tuck place till Oh
landed in camp, except that thin hay
thins had foraged jugful av applejack
Oh reminder the blackgards was maxim
love to me, wild PHASE, dear, have an
ither sip,' and Down wild it, me old girl;
it's dhrinkin yer health we are.'
''The next Oh knowed, captain, was
when Oh woke up wild the police squad
sousin me in the crick.
"An now Ohm towld its rollin lush Oh
was when Oh arrived, an it's sorry Oh
am, captain, for Oh intinded to come
loike soldier escaped from the inemy,
an proud av the thrick Oh am. Shure
Ord have come in in man clothes, as Oh
ought, av thin murtherin cavalrymen
hadn't injuced me to drink"
1t is better to omit the remarks perti-
nent and impertinent with which the
story had been greeted, and now as Ted
dy rested the hillside rang with jeers
and laughter from the shoulder strapped
audience seated on the wall.
well, Greggan," said the captain
when the talk and the laughter had sub
sided into an evident state of expecta-
tion for more, "you commenced your
story in the middle"
"The divil Oh did, yer honor. Oh COM
minced it at the ind, loike fox when he
digs his hole widout lawn ony dhirt out
side. Thankee for the limonade, but seein
the state Oh was in last night, an akin yer
pardon fer that same, yell see shmall
dram wud ase me troat. Me inards is
burnin after the lush"
So Teddy smacked his lips over the
dram, regarding his audience with far
away look, half unconscious for the
moment of the fusillade of questions as
to where he had been, what he had seen,
how he escaped and how he was captured.
"Where have Oh been," began Teddy,
disregarding an invitation to sit down,
"where have Oh beeup Begorra, Ord
loike to know myself where Olive been.
1t was two days march to the SOUTHWEST
they tuck me, an when we got there it
was nowhere in particular, Dim thinkin.
Wherever it was, there was shmall
river an dhirty canal alongside it. Oi
was that lame all the last afternoon Oh
cud hardly walk at all, or else | played
it that way on the long legged lad from
Varginny what was dethailed to bring
me along in the rear. What wild tellin
sthories and stain cherries an the loike
we got sumat friendly by the time we
sthruck the canal. Let's take a bit
shwim, says Oh to the lad. Dim thinkin
the river water nd cool the blishters on
me fate,' says Oh.
"'All right says me innocent guard,
for the hate was bazin the two av us.
They all won't be campin far ahead.
You uns' clothes is you uns' parole, says
he.
$50 we tuck our clothes off on the
roadside. threw mine over the limb of
tree, an the lad laid his togs ON the top
of the wall Afther wadin through the
black ditch av canal we crossed the
towpath to the river an jumped into the
cool wather. We might have been
shwimmin about in the shade an lyin
under the bank for the matther av half
an hour as happy as pair O thwins
whin we agreed we'd shwim across the
sthream an back an afther that go on
about our business. Oh was the first to
git onto the far bank, an lookin across to
the bit O. road where we had lift our
things there was spotted calf wild his
fore feet on the wall chewin Johnnie's
suspendhers, loike a boa constructor
maxim ready to swally the whole uni
form. Will ye luck O. thatT says Oh.
He'll be aiten yer gun next Wild that
we both slid down the wet clay bank, an
Oh lay laughin in the brink av the river
to see the lad shwimmin for his life in
the dhirection av the wild animal
"'Come on said he as he scrambled
over the towpath.
"'All right, says Oh. Dim afther yez.
An then for the first time Oh sized up me
chances. The threes was thick above
stream, an foine sandy beach lay along
side the wather Lapin to me feet, ran
like red deer until l was aisy out av
his sight, and thin l climbed over the
bank an tuck into the shwamp.
"Says l, Teddy, me boy, yen fetch
up in Batthery Q in somethin thicker'n
the skin av ye.' 1t was the afternoon
av the first day Ohm spalin av, an Dim
towld the divil was let loose hereabouts,
but it was that still in the shwamp ye
cud hear bullfrog plump into the
wather half mile off An be that same
token Oh must have been twinty miles
away Its Pennsylvany Dim in,' thinks
Oh, IAN Oil be maten up wild some wan
as I'll give me clothes to cover me naked
ness. Wild that | TUX heart an began
fallen me way through the shwamp.
Says Oh, talliin to mesilf loike: Oil
sthay hidin in the shwamp by day an
foragin in the fields by night in me skin
until the divils rethreat Prisons is fur
the infantry, says Oh, IAN the ARTILLERY
in the person O. Teddy Greggan ull kape
out of it. Shure me innocent tame nd
blush to see me- thinks Oh, but it's bad
luck av Oh don't stale horse blanket