The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-09-07
OLD flARENER SCOTS
At SeIENTHFEe WARFARE


hisself alongside Carlo an p'inted to
wards tn camp.
What in demnition dye mean by
this2' says Carlo. gettin' Wild an talk
in mostly with is hands. What dye
mean by arrestin' us here on tn high
road2 We haven't done nothin'. an
in tn name O. tn president o. tn
United States. you've got TO let us
pass on But tn officer Jus smiled
politely an said. Yes sir, thang you
bein'. as | learned afterwards, all the
English he knowed-
Mebbe we was ridin' Eastern the
law allows said Hawkins. but any
how. let's make run for it.
We ali turned our horses and made
a dash for tn road. but them pesky
soldiers was too quick for US an head
ed US OF politely.
I'VE was all three som'at put out
about it, but Carlo was the most can
tankerous. He was rayin' mad. He
fairly tore is hair an swore in pigeon
English an Eyetalian that tn United
States would send a feet down an
blow tn country tell for this. TIL
rusty little Chilano officer JUS smiled
an said, Yessir. thang you.' JUS as il
tn cuss was a dom US favor.
We'll, they was nothin for il but
TO submit to arrest, an we was escort
ed over TO the camp. They must ha'
been all o. three thousand soldiers in
camp, an they was about as NANCY a
lookin' crowd as ever / see
It's a case o. hangin'.' remarked
Hawkins
But what struck US most was tn
politeness o. tn devils. They was a
big guard o soldiers lined up as we
went into camp, an they all come to
attention an presented arms as we
passed in. Then a big man with a
sword an a lot o. service medals an
gingerbread work on is chest came
out. an takin' off his chapeau, bowed
an shook hands with Carlo an Haw-
kins as if he was mighty glad to see
EN-. He didn't s much as look at me,
which took as sign that they might
turn me loose, but | seen that Carlo
an Hawkins was wanted pretty bad.
Il soon sees as how my calculations
was correct, for hadn't morn dis
mounted when a rusty lookin' man
with couple O. corpora1's stripes on
takes me into tent an begins film
me up on aguardience an tortillas.
TIL darned cusses is sufferin'
from guilty conscience on account o.
having arrested innocent man. says
to mysel. AN they're tryin' to square
the'selves'
well, | stayed in that ar tent for
ur'ards of a half hour. drinkin' an
a takin' food an smilin' at them cusses
not bein able to converse with EN-, an
then begins to wonder what has be-
come o. Carlo an Hawkins. I thought
like as not they was under guard
somewheres. an I wanted to take
EN- drink. We passed on down one
O. tn company streets till we comes
near what I takes to be tn generals
tent. an what does see but them two
galoots inside drinkin' wine an eat
in cakes an things TO beat tn band.
an around them was a big bunch O.
generals an colonels, an. tn like,
a-clinkin, glasses an a-carryin' on at
a tremenjus rate.
Il was for goin' right In to 'em.
but orderly stops me. an then I
realizes for tn fust time that these
Chilano idiots had mistook Carlo for
the admiral of the fleet an Hawkins,
for is chief o. staff They thought
was tn orderly O. that damned band
master. l thought things had been
comm pretty easy for me out there in
III corporal's tent. but it made me
bilin mad to think o. how I'd been
stuffin' myself out there on measIv
tortillas an guzzlin' cheap aguardi-
ante. an these two shipmates a sittin'
here hobnobbin' with generals an
such like. an. partakin' o. tn best in
h land without ever singin' out to
me.
Il hailed EN- now, an told 'em to
:all of this blamed sentry, an let me
get to EN- An what does that i'm
Dossin' dago Bandmaster Carlo do but
wave me off an go on drinkin' an
maxim signs to them ar poor deluded
officers same as IL he didn't want to
le bothered by no common sailor. Me
he cap'n o. tn foretop, too, mind
rou.
Alter spell tn bugles sounded an
IN liar il tn whole camp wasn't
allied out on p'rade. Then Carlo an
Hawkins. in tn midst o. bunch o.
an such like. was escorted
Town tn lines on a inspection tour It
vas movin' sight to see them ar two
saloots struttin' about there a re-
-urnin saloots an carryin' on like a
couple o. major generals Carlo spe-
cially was pust full enough o. Chilano
liquor TO make i'm awful iignified an
overbearin' like. an thought I'd bust
when tn band all of student struck
no a tune. 70 see him jump. That was
lust IN is line. you see.
Well. alter it was all over they
brought our HOSES around an we
rode out o camp with the band a
nurderin tn Star Spangfed Banner
an all them fool officers a-salootin
IN a salaamin. an still thinkin they'd
been entertaining III admiral.
Mebhe they never did know tn
difference. but anyhow n was one o.
III queer experiences o. seafarin'. That
same army fought like hIazes an
won IN Valparaiso a few weeks alter
hat but basin my argument on our
experience with 'em. claim that ther
1idnf know much except fightins.
They wasn't any other 1ne p'infs
about EN-. as mebhe vnu'3 aerea a-tov