The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-09-18
All in the Days Work
TOLD BY THE CORPORAL

Der ~ their wounded Ne knew that u
must have been heavy As you know
that SORT Of hehfins doesn't make for
miidness. and as 10 went on our chaps
grew savage and bitter-nof the least
like what they been In ordinary war.
when YOU can knock down OF be- knock
ed down one minute and shake hands
with your enemy the nrS. A. for Gull
gulias. they were treacherous savages
from the first. and as the fighting be-
gan 90 go AGAINST them they turned
devils outright. leaving pluck about the
only virtue they had among them. They
took 70 poisoning the animals. setting
fire 10 the jungle round Us whenever IL
was dry enough 20 burn and irving TO
cop detached scouts Two 90 oar lads
were nailed That way. and when We
found the bodies afferWard and saw
how they had been tortured go death
tell YOU d. made for straight shooting
whenever q GliEuiia came In sight
was one OF them as thought that the
scouts must have been nahbed through
being careless and kept on thinking
that until one fine dag I got nabhed
myself
The narrator stopped. staring into
the fire with knitted brnws. u was APP
parent thar the humiliation NJ thl. by
gone Mlshap had NOT lost Us power 10
sting Then be reused up and went
on,
Yes. was COPIED. and not more
han 500 Yards from where the column
had halted The country though
broken and hiilOCky. was clear Of jun
ele-if h hadn't been I wouldn't have
gone so far out-sO that 20 this day !
can't make out where those SIX Gull
gulias came from. less they'd sprung
up out 81 the earth. ANYWAY ] gO-
"a clOut on The head that knocked me
senseless and when I came 20 myself
I was tied hand and foot. and had
dirty rag stuffed in my mouth The
crowd round me were about as ugly
as nature and sin could make them.
and as / looked at their demon faces
I made up ms mind that my soldier
ing was about over
When they'd divided my arms.
most 81 ms clothes. and some other
odds and ends. such as money. watch.
pipe and the like. among them. they
hid the lor among some bushes a liz
lie way OF laid down their rifles be
side the bushes and came back C.
where ! wav lying AZ first I thought
they meant murder right Of. but when
they began 20 clear ont 4 sort 81 IT,
cess under a rock shelf. / BEGAN tC
understand They had something mr.
gent 20 DO. or where waiting for some
thing and meantime I was 70 be made
as secure as possible till I tell
yon. boys. I went cold AZ the thought
Of If. and no man yet has ever called
me coward
Well. when they'd got the recess
cleared. they rolled me- into IT, and
started building up loose stones in
front They'd about finished this job
when a voice ike trumpet quite
near yelled out something
The whole six jumped ike cats.
and could hear them gasp as they
faced round managed 20 get my
eve 20 chink between two stones
and then I saw Jim Darrell for the
first time.
He was standing on a little mound
about fifty yards away-rife az the
ready. finger on trigger. and with a
face on him like IL had been carved
out 81 a white stone I may tel you
that Jim isn't big chap. but just
then he seemed somehow 10 fill the
whole place. giving sou the feeling
that he had death for dozen behind
him Then he began speaking again.
but rather slowly. and making every
word ring like a hammer striking iron
II was the Gulgu.la hat he vas using
and couldn't understand a word %
81. bur ! guessed that what h. vas cay
ing was not the sort % talk you hear
in a SUNDAY school
They'd nearly passed him. when
one-the lasf-Eheeled like lightning
20 make fo- the rifles hy the bushes
But he hadnr taken three steps before
the l.ee-Mctfnrd cracked and d. came
down. hit clean through the head.
That settled the rest. as far as fighting
went and in about a minute they were
out Of sight. Jim following them ND.
Well. as yOu NAV guess. I wasn't
long a prisoner. for when Jim had
landed his iot ar the main guard he
came back with dozen more 10 get
the prisoners rifles. and. Of course.
found and released me.
That's the story so far. but before
sou can weigh IL up you've got 10 r.
member one OF two things The first
j. that when Jim tackled those six he
lid not know that there was a white
man anywhere near him. the second
Is that he tackled the GulEulias 81 his
own accord-he needn't have been
seen hy them unless he'd chosen to-
and that though he'd a magazine rife
he'd only one round In 1.-THE one b.
fired
Get OUT -Oh. draw it mild. cor
poral
IT'S gospel truth He'd had a fai
among some rocks. and the block ac
ton ~ the ie had got iammed The
magazine action wouldn't work. an,
The cartridge in the chamh wouldn't
come ont. 50 that once II was fired no.
rife was useless And set kuowinl
that. he tackled those six and carried
II OF srough pure cheek How did
that stand Tor a biur7
Before answer could be made =
rapid step was heard in The darkness
and one ~ the A. n a. came into the
light 81 the fire
; Corporal Carfn
p Corporal Carfn
Here AMI the speaker rose 10 his
feet
You're wanted AZ the hospital tent
! one ~ the senfries down by ths
5 djheei was shot an hour ago. He va,
unconscious TIN just before he died