The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-08


and he owned up. He'd lost Dinny 10 the
Fourth Cavalry at the cooking main.
. Immediately the gang took up a Ool1ec-
ton and got our outfit. We had to come
across with their price and Dinny was
brought back to our works. He hadn't
DOsn let down. though, before he trekked
10 find Jim Bolster, and when he found Jim
he refused 81 be separated from him, Rather
ungrateful, we considered IL, the way he
snubbed VIZ all for Jim after the trouble
and EXPENSE we'd been TO In order to get
him out of hook.
Three days later Jim hooked Dinny
again to the Fourth Cavalry. Again va
had 10 come through for the amount 10 re-
deem DinnY.
mot a week later Jim came back, Dir
shevclled and sad, from n cooking main,
and Once more he was without Dinny.
Fourth Cavalry had Dinny once again.
Then we had a meeting. with Jim under
h gun.
sThis thing Of getting Dinny out Of the
spout every few lays was keeping the
battery broke. The meeting decided that
Jim should no longer be- the custodian Of
Dinny-that that bond must be severed.
no matter how tough the wrench. Reso-
luton adopted.
COMMITTEE went and got Dinny out Of
rock again, and Dinny was tied up for a
few days, with the idea that he'd forget
Jim and perhaps choose another pal when
turned loose. Nothing doing. The minute
Dinny was u%nhobbled he beat it to where
jim was humping post and trOtted post
with Jim the rest of the guard tour.
October pay day swung along and
Jim went Oft on a vino souse. D'nny fol-
lowed him. Jim picked a a keener
gambler thar Jim sober. ard so he stased
Dinny once a~Eain-the last time-on the
outcome Of "A scrap between a couple OF
chickens.
-That settled IL. II looked like the
Fourth Cavalry d have all OF the Aston
Battery's money. In the shape Of redemp-
ton change fer Dinny. II the thing went
on. Anyhow. Jim was on a prOtracted
srIdsup, and when he got hack he was
clinked and got a month and a month
a mont in the guard house. that ia to say.
and the loss Of a months pay.
"Dirny. when we got him away from
the Fourth Cavalry the last time, couldn't
be put into the mil! with jim. and he was
disConsolate. lost flesh. whimpered over
the separation every time he thought of
begone zig either side the equator.
Moreover, Thanksgiving was approach
ing. Grub wasn't any too plentiful. The
proposition was only limited az at first.
Then il took "A kind ~ shape. Nobody
cared to come right ont with i in words
bct ~ the day Of hanks approached the
understanding sort 1T telcpathed itself
around The outfit that Gnny was going
TO be the piece de resistance OF the battery's
Thanksgiving day feed.
Hated 10 do II. and al like that. but
DinCy was costing us most OF our rum
money. paying principal and interest on
kJn-those Fourth CavalTymen worked
u usIriOus bulge ~ us every time they
RATED Dinny on a bet-and Dinny's natural
fricrd and protector was tied no in the
niu and Dfnny was making an awtui row
over that, n the grub outlook, excepting
we useI Dinny, looked pretty punk for
Thanksgiving Day. and-and so 1t was
silently decided.
"Dinny. done to a final degree Of artistry
in the blending brown tones. was served up
FOR the Thanksgiving Day blowout. But
serving ninny UP as n main victual piece
for a proclaimed holiday and getting any of
the outfit to eat Dinny were two wholly
'~iTerent things.
I'VE looked at Dinny as he came in on the
big platter. and then we looked at zach
cut of the tail of the eye. We felt
mean. slinky, contemplate.
And it was made worse by the con
duct Of Jim Bolster. Jim. a prisoner in the
cliuk, waited on the Battery mess table that
Thanksgiving Day. He was the gloomiest
one time lawyer and then buck
l ever saw when. Dinny being
chopped up, nc started TO pass h hunks
as his Job required him to.
viii ye have a piece Of DiDny?" he asked
man after man. showing the plate heaped
'iD WIN Dllny \ TlDb IN iTODL OF edCn man.
"Jim's question was hoarse. husky, raspy.
from "A chOSed and aching throat. Each
Of us looked at Jim as he asked the ques-
ton, and each Of Ma shook his head.
No. VIC didn't want any of Dinny. Not
what had been. Not the way the
question was asked. Not with Jim serving
Not any way at all. Nixy Dinny
FOR the men of the Astor Pattery.
n o n mouthful of Dinny was masti-
rated at the feed. We all addressed our
to the spuds and the friiOles and the
embellishments Of the feast. but every man
lac< of the outfit sent the fragments Of
'hnny On their way untouched.
Did the camp dogs get Dinnyl Not
much. Jim Bolster assembled all of the
portions Of Dinny together. put the
remains in a neat box an q nailed the box up.
that night he got permission from the
officer OF the guard to give Dinny proper
sepuiture. | think none Of us who saw it
viii soon forget the picture that the poor
Jld chap mad in the enfulgent moonlight
NJ that night when he was consigning the
rOass pork that had been Dinny to the tomb
which he scraped out beneath the shelter
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