The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-13
With a MerrNso.round in Greaser'and
Ink FaIlons Adventures With the Mxcan Army. The Com
mandant's Daughter. the Ora ting Colombian
end Chilean Competitor

.The States for mine obosrvod Tu1';
O'Fallon, mainly OF New YORK ana tho
Atlantic seaboard, but known oi wli'o men
pretty we'll in Toxic, TanCor. TruN'l"
and other far corners TO which tho resties
ones drift. -pve got weakne's for the
trial by jury thing. habeas corpus no
copflscation, and such Ike. Ike not the
warm, glowing and lassisu!inob lands OF
the Greaser.
Mr.. O'Fallon was narratiIg his expert
ences Of few years ago while conducting
a one mule power merry-go-round on inc
vest coast OF Mexico and / Central and
South America. =,
.They climbed mo all right he said.
sand I was glad to got hnck to San Fran
oisoo with what teeth I'd left there with.
I started at Acapulco, Mexico. to take ad-
yanta &c Of. the autumn maneuvers there
Il had it figured out that the Greaser SOL
der. would want to ride. Well, the sawed
OF. barehoofed Greaser soldiers fell for
the whizzer from the Jump In 'platoons
and battalions, and from the minute gave
the mule the first gee-ap had business.
Il didn't collect in advance. but had 1t
rugged 30 that they'd have to produce to
me as they passed out Of the exit, small
gate. was at the gate, ready for the nick
els, when my first batch Of military riders
started out. But there wasn't cough In
them.
.They all shook their heads. There wasn't
a skentavo In the layout. was there some
with the Greaser jabber, and I asked EN-
what they'd meant by riding when they
knew they didn't have the price.
afa fNYu r
and told mo he thought the matter could
' ranged. Pay day, he said, was
off, / could take the names Of my
e.. .ier customers. debit them with all
the rides they took on the merry-go-round,
and on pay day collect the sum total In
bunch from the paymaster.
Plausible boy, that sergeant. He
gathered me in, all right I started the
system of bookkeeping then and there
When I'd finished putting the names down
they concluded to 60 back and take an
other ride or 80 to celebrate our little credit
pact.
II rode EN-. During the next week l
rode the whole Mexican army In Acapulco
assembled, until had list OF names about
the size Of the muster roll OF the Rebellion,
with tallies of the rides taken after each
name
.When pay day came around my bill
against the soldiery of Mexico was about
a hundred and quarter American, and it
looked pretty soft 10 me. Odd how a man
can plug around the world for quarter
Of a century or so and be such zap at the
end OF it, isn't 1t?
Il gave the mule morning of and shut
down the plant and went over to the Office
OF the paymaster on pay day forenoon.
He was a young fellow Of about nineteen,
with about seventeen pounds Of gold lace
on his tunic, and he was there with the
naughty junk from the minute that stepped
into his room.
Il had little account against the men
Of the com nand, toll him. and started in
TO unooil my list, which looked like Pc
tition signed by the population OF two or
three towns.
THE naughty payraster boy recon-
mended mo to be on my way al nd not to
linger any. This caused me to get some
lumpy. I told him l was there for duff
that belonged to me, and that I'd make
q start when I saw the color of it,
sHe rose up to his full foot 8, his
snickersnee clanking between his legs as he
did 30. He remarked that his time was
too valuable to permit of his listening to the
rawlings Of a detestable Gringo faker.
This put knots in me that could only
unite with the aid of speech. l told him,
for his information, that he was eighteen