Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-20

around above us, for all the world
like swarm of hornets, whin Henry
shtuck his head up bit to see what
he could see. Whist--a bullet went
| right along by the side O. his face. It
didn't touch him quite, but it burned
like redhot blister on the side o. his
phiz.
Now, bad cess to the son of gun
of a Spaniard that foired that, sez ZEE;
if Oh ketch sight o. him Oi'll pump
knocked i'm into next week!' Thin
wuz the first words he'd spoke since
the night afore. Well, he stood up,
loike idJit, a-loadin' his gun. just
then we see Spaniard pop his head
up, an whist!-a bullet cut through
Henry's hat.
He near got yez that time,
bunky, sez Oh.
The mkt tonne the wicked Span
ish beggar shows his head, sez zee,
'Oi'll fix i'm, sez zee.
"'Oi'll bet yez Oh hit him first sez
'What'll you bet?' sez zee, savage
loike.
"'Oh, anything yez plase, sez OF.
'Half the months pay, sel Oi.
'Oi'll take yez up, sez zee.
$50 we shtood there a-waitin', the
bot of us, for that Spaniard to show
his head agin. Our guns wuz sighted
on the place we thought he'd appear,
you know, and our fingers wuz on the
triggers. We waited in that same
though it seemed like half an hour.
Finally, all suddint, we see head.
The very same moment | tired, and
the son of a gun of Spaniard dropped
down, picked sure enough that tonne.
'Begorra, bunky,' sez Oi, 'yez
owe me half the months pay sez Oh.
"'The mischief, Oh do, sez zee.
'Oi shot the son of gun, mesel.'
"'That you did not, 'sez Oh. Didn't
Oh foire the very minute he showed
hisself, and didn't he fall down of
hape?'
"What's yez talkin' about sez
zee. Didn't Oh foire the instant see
him?' sez zee.
"'Mayhap yez foired. sez Oh, but
twas me that kilt i'm, anyhow sez
Oh.
"'Ye loie, ye read-headed son of
an Oirishman,' sez zee.
What's that,ye dirty blackguard,
seZ Oh. 'Oi don't take the loie from
amy wan, sez Oh. Come out O. this
ditch and we'll see who's lyin',' sez
Oh.
''Wit' that the bot on us climb
out'n the trench, t'rew down our guns
and squared Off We had it hot for a
few minutes, the bullets a-hyin'
around, but niver touching wan of us.
Finally, Henry landed wan alongs de
of me face. 1t made me billing mad,
it did. and Oh forgot me tactics and
wint for him. Oh slugged him wan
on the tip O the jaw and he went
down of hape.
'Git up, sez OF, foldin' me arms,
'and we'll see who hit the Spaniard
first
Henry jumped up and we went at
it agin. Begad, we drew more blood
out'n wan anither in them few minu-
tes thin the S aniards did in the
whole war, but we didn't decoide the
matther, for prisintly big sarjint come
along.
What do you mane,' seq zee TO
be afther foighting ache ither. Brake
away there sez zee, knockin' about
wit his gun b'twane us. Git down
in the bitches there, and shoot the
Spaniards, sez zee.
"We picked up our guns, shapish
loike, and jumped down into the
trench. The sariint stood moment
watchin' us, and thin he said:
" If I catch you two mugs He
niver said anything further than that,
for just then mauser ball hit him in
the stomach and he were down in the
grass a-groanin' and clutchin, and bit
in.
"Well, sir, we niver said anything
more about the dead Spaniard the rest
O. the day. The enemy KEEP us pretty
busy till toward night, when we wuz
drawn from the firm line, and
whin we got to our quarters we didn't
give rap for nothin', but to get some
shape. It's me private opinion, sir,
that we bot kilt that Spaniard, but
we've niver cared particular about
arguing the matther out"
"Begorra, Henry, that's foine fish
yez have there. Eighteen cints?
Begad, it's dear, but it's worth the
price to git taste O. say food. Olive
just been telling the gentleman about
our scrap down in Cuba"
81 warrant you made yourself out
regular Fitzsimmons, said Henry.
Sometime. sir, when he amt around
you shall hear my side of the affair."
Walter Strong Edwards, in New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The GlOwwOrm's Rays.