The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-10
Company Z
In Brazil

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Company l. and the Razidazios, or
| fighting the. Brazilerenos OF Brazil is
the title OF the following truthful
narratives, written by a member of
the local military company from
whose pen has appeared before the
strange adventures of the company in
Mexico and Africa:
4 One cold morning when the Their
mometer was registering forty-seven
degrees below, we received a hurry
call to Brazil to which we responded
like the flashes of lightning. The
aeroplane squad getting everything in
/ shape, we assembled to the clouds, and
came within sight of Brazil in Just
4 thirty-seven seconds. Then to look
for the Brazilerenos, out came the
glasses and with the orders Easy on
the whip, Phil, it's hired horse,'' we
gazed to the ground below and saw
the Brazilerenos in large numbers
awaiting u.s.
Corporal Powell then said to Private
Rritton, IF lettuce wits in the winter,
would a carrot?" Britton responded
! by slipping one of the huge bombs
we always carry with us. and say, fell
low citizens. it certainly blew forty
to fifty thousand Brazilerenos to
smithereneos, and SO Infatuated were
the survivors that they kept hollering,
Up with the napkins, boys, here
comes the SOUP and started firing at
US, but as we were far in the air the
!. bullets no more than reached us, the
Belts brothers amusing themselves by
catching million or SO with their
bare hands.
The next great difficulty was to-
find place to alight. We argued
about this as we flew and we must
have flown several thousand miles be-
fore we came to a decision, finally
deciding to land on the worlds ia
nous pneumatic mountain. This
mountain was chosen for it's terrible
height and its elasticity, we having
worked out scheme of escape if the
Brazilerenos should charge up the
mountain, but that didn't bother us
now.
/ You have no doubt read where Com
pany l. We're going to give the new
air torpedo a trial and as We had new
err used this before, we thought it
/ might be we'll to try one or two, SO
Chief Electrician Hartel had the deli
cate endinges running smoothly, and
having set the different dials in the
1 downward direction, we let her sit
there for some ten minutes, which
time was used in careful adjusting.
FINALLY she was pronounced ready and
all hands gathered around to see lust
how it would work Sergeant Hartel
let it go and sailing down the noun
tain side like Fat Westerhoof on the
slippery drill floor, the Brazilerenos
not realizing what was about to hap
pen, stood with their mouths open and
waited in silence. Nearer and nearer
came the terrible missile of destruc.
ton, until it finally grazed one OF
4 their tallest buildings and still kept
descending slowly Until it hit with
awful compact against the hard stone
pavement of the Brazilian Main
street. Fellow citizens you ought to
have been there to have witnessed the
terrible catastrophy. That little air
torpedo blew the buildings and killed
thousands of Brazilerenos. This we
knew would start something and we
could see by our glasses they were
preparing to climb the mountain and
kill us all, but nay, nay, Pauline. no
such luck, for fooling Company L boys
I Is worse than fooling old Opie him
self
! Captain LeBron with the smartness
fof smartweed beloved out Tell
muh Rachel is honey good for the
hives the captain then started to
have the grappIes put in good condi-
ton and no more had we finished this
task than the Brazilerenos started
scaling the mountains at least a mil
lion strong. We Of course prepared
/ for action and fastening the immense
! grapples firmly to the mountain, we
got aboard our good ship just in time
4 to hear Stonewall Nichols chirp in
! that beautiful voice of his '''If Grim
minis could tell real diamond, could
Hump Griffey telephone We start
ed flying idly at first just as if we
We're anchored We waited in this
position until they had nearly reach
ed the top, when the order was given
Back to the mines boys, there's no /
strike today" Then the power was /
put on and you can imagine the awful (
result. The chains frightened on the
grapples and the mountain began to
shiver and quake when all at once
one of the chains broke and volunteers
We're called for to jump back on the I
mountain and fix it. Remember folks I
the Brazilerenos were nearing the TOP
when broad jumping Charlie Henne-
man told the fellows he was sure he
could cover the distance between our /
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