The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
RRAvEsT OF THEM ALL.
Story Told by War Hero to His
Steady"

story Told by War Hero to His
Steady"
One of the veteans of the late war
with Spain took his best girl out to
Chevy Chase the other evening, and
behind him on the car sat a skilled
stenographer, who, being interested in
the conversation of this brave soldier,
took down the following story verba-
tim:
We laid in der trenches for a long
time, and 1 was getting mighty tired of
it. I went to der colonel, cause 1
never spoke to any other officer in der
regiment and l says: Say, colonel,
wants to fight Says he, I knew you
was brave man when you enlisted,
says he, but you will have to wait a
while 1 says, Damned if L do
went to the commissary and got 27
more rounds of ammunition and waited
my chance. After a while L seed a
whole batch of Spaniards away off on
the hill, and just makes up my mind
to capture dem all. So lays in wait
and steals away from the trenches, and
starts after dem 'Dagoes.' Before
gets away from der camp the colonel
sees me and he says, Come back here,
you are de best man In my regi-
ment, and know you will do dem up,
but don't want you to run any risks.
| says, Colonel, l am going to take that
crowd He says, Go ahead, them So,
as I says, started after them yellow
Dagoes,' and gets within a short dis
tance, when they seen me, and 1 start
ed on der dead run for dem. Just as
soon as dey sees me coming for dem dey
fnfn to til
for them, and headed dem off, and dey
turns to fight. My damned old gun
snapped fire four times, but on the
fifth 1t went all right, and killed sew
enteen of them before dey got up to
me-"
"oh, charlesl"
Il looked around and saw General
Shafter and Colonel Corbin standing on
der hill looking at me, and just made
up my mind to show dem some fight
ing. So l throws away my gun, and
pulled out my knife and started to close
quarters. There was ten left in dat
crowd, and, to tell you der truth, it was
picnic for me. Dey seemed to walk
up one at a time, and all I had to do
was to stab 'em. After l had done the
whole crowd up and gone back to the
hill l met Colonel Corbin, and he says,
Would you mind me shaking your
hand" l says, Certainly not, if you
wants to-. SO der old duffer grips me
by the hand and he says, You are the
bravest man 1 ever seen. By the way,
General Shafter says when it is con-
venience for you he would like to Sc
you at his headquarters. ,"
Did you go right away?"
well, I guess not. After monkeying
around about forty eight hours I went
to see what the old man wanted, and he
said, l am awful glad to see you,
Charlie; sit down and have some lunch.
So / sat down and we had grub to-
gether After dinner General Shafte1
says, Charlie, you deserve a promotion
and ! am going to see that you get
command of a corpse But [ didn't
want. that, you know, so says, No, ]
| come down to fight and that is all !
want"
You refused command of a-a-a-
what did you say it was, Charles?"
"a corpse
What is that?"
"A crowd of fellows who go out tc
see where the Spaniards is.
"And didn't you get anything fol
killing all those men?"
mo; 1 tell you l didn't want any
| thing, but every time any fighting was
to be done der old man always saw that
I was in the 'front.' Washington Star.
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