Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-12-18
ROCKVILLE MARYLAND FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 49, 1903
PRIVATE JONES'
CHEATING *
BY LEO era NE
Copyright, 1905, bs n. O. McCurs

e slung a shovel on the bloomin' tramp
Koolah until his mouth got him inter
serious trouble affairs by recklessly
slippin' lurid names toward the chief
engineer o. course we men knew o
didn't mean anythink outer the way by
the iangwidge, but the chief engineer
was vicious man. an e allowed his
turr'ble anger to become uncontrolled.
$50 we men laid Jones away in the
free ward O. leetle horspital that half
hid itself shylike behind row O. scrag-
gy palms. Then we men went of on a
boot, eight o. US. Seven got back to the
ship In time to sail with her. The
eighth man. g was left on the wharf
deserted amid multichude O coolies.
HI was that man.
AN, being as Hi wouldn't shift car
go fer a llvin' wage, Hi presented me-
self, body an soul, to recruitln' off,
Ger who was out after one devil called
Juan Torres This same Juan Torres
was up country some'res hidin', an o
didn't have no idear o. bein, ketehed;
hence 1t needed men, an Hi was man.
Now, on the mornin' afore we
marched away who In all the worH a
rascals should heave In sight but Jones.
ID had rag about his head, an o
wanted to list. Now, Hi had never ex-
pected to see Jones again In this worr
an, bein' pious inclined, didn't want to
meet him In the next HI always
watched my terbacker when e was
about. Sam Rawlins had toll me o.
that, an Sam Rawlins had lost ter
hacker.
well, they needed men, an Jones
was one, so e went along. 10 toll me
that the doctors at the leetle horspital
had been very confident that e would
die. but In spite o 1t q fooled 'em.
Anyway. up country we goes after
Juan Torres, an the first beastly town
we gets inter down goes Jones with the
fever. The doctor o. the regiment said
. would die certain, but Jones didn't.
&c scraped through. s'elp me II % didn't.
Two weeks after e began to creep
about the camp mule kicks him a req
lar smasher in the side, an away to the
leetle horspital they carries him to
mend up.
"Hi didn't see Jones no more for near
a half year; neither did HI see Juan
Torres. One day when we thought we
had 'em spotted at last inter camp e
walks, smilln' grimly. ID goes to the
colonel an says, 'HPll show ye Just
where they are says q. An In ten
minutes out we marches, Jones leadin'
the way.
allow have we beenT asks the colo
mel, leggin' 1t 'lOngside o. Jones.
"'Wery WELL says Jones back to him,
pleasant-llke. HI amt been outer the
horspital more n ten days
"'Gunsp cries the colonel. Did 1t
take 'em all that time to patch up
three broken ribsT
mo- explains Jones. They fired
up them ribs In six weeks. but after Hi
got discharged from that spell Hi went
inter town on leetle smooth arouns,
ye know. an some William knifes me.
In fact, e knitted me two or three times
afore . was satisfied with his contract,
an so they bustles me back to the lee
tie horspitai without any great loss o.
time That were four month job, but
they did II, an nary a grumble. oh,
this gettln' well IL my long suit says
Jones, proud-llke. What troubles me
most says Jones solemnly, is that
maybe when the blow comes again
Hill be too far up country an won't
reach the horspital In time, but HI
hopes not
"'Why. you must like bein SICK says
the colonel, sprlsed.
at amt the bein' SICK, says Jones;
that's nasty. But the soup-my, the
soupl Dellciousp says Jones, smackin'
his lips g II e could taste It. Hive
been in forty-two hospitals In my
time an have been discharged cured
nigh on to slxty-seven times, so HI
know
"'Slxty-seven times echoed the colo
mel.
"'Return visits explained Jones
quickly. But HI don't despair o. bet
term that record, cause Hi knows my
vitality an what HI can stand
"On we men went silently. The re-
ports IL tel ye now we cornered them
rats III the center tnick rorest, put
the reports won't tell ye how one Jones
carriea nre an sworn INTO the hapita-
tloh Juan Torres
ut stood In clearin'. Jones beat US
10 tne ihciosure ny good twenty ieeI
an Jones was hrst 10 snow MS reg over
inc Top. Some naive Keller punched
phyohet through the car H. out that
hatiVe feiier troubled no other man.
him I'm The snoLe y, ho,tIe
"Late I'm the day. when the strueele
had ceosed an, the smell n, rapk now.
der was beolnnin, IN deve away
through the forest VIC started IN hunt
M our men. We found Tones Twin
acrost a nile a. severely used natives
over again a secluded norton o. the
atockade. There he had cornered sig
desperate men an the sight q his