Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-04

Coast Artillery company" said the
Rookie, but OF course did not have
the luck"
AN wisht so too" Private Kelley
answered. THAT IL. ! wisht We had
got TO go wit them As fer meself.
tits here I'd rather be, although III
admit IL might be int'restin' to look
down In tn crater av that volcano
an. watch IL boil, thinkin' at the time
how ye'd like have tn comp'ny cook
there TO push him over-not to men.
shin some lieutinints ] have met, be-
cause av me respec' fer me superior
officers.
"Tis tn same kind av trip I've took
befur'te, like many others We start
out wit high hopes and bright wish
uns av seein' new scsnes and faces.
and We come back wit indigestshun
and bunions on We feet
"Th' tinth starts out fer Hilo today.
an befure dark mos av them will be
lanin' over tn side av tn ship and
wondhrin how far tn boat is goin'
down befur're she starts up again.
Rest Usual 10 Minutes.
"Tomorry. or maybe next day. they
will start wit their outfit on their
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utes out ay livery hour, will march up
Z the top av the Volcano. Afther
gain into the crater av this for
time and camping there. they will go
back Z camp and at sich times as
not marchin' or doin' other work will
be wishin' they was home.
IL that was all. 't'ould be fine. But
It's not be far, Rookie. liver since /
was lad hav' rallied that tn idea
av takin' an outin' is form av in
sanity. but as almost ivry wan but me
is possessed av It. I've KEEP quit on
tn subjec'. hopin' some other brave
man would let loose on 1t but no hero
has arose to point out tn fac that an
outin' is about as much fun as playin'
wit tn neighbor's children, fer polite
ness. whin ye have yer Sunday clothes
on.
.Whin / was q boy they got the
fever at me home wanct In q while.
and dragged me out to q picnic. dur.
In the course av which father los his
pipe in tn mornin' and got cross.
mother was stung be bee In tn mid
die av the day and me little brother
always drunk lemondade ontil he was
forced T. lie on his stumich an cry
dhurin' tn afternoon.
Terrible Aftermath.
Fer myself, twas so much I sur
fered on SIGH occashuns as these that
have forget everythin' except that
for nanny nights after | spint me
time scratching me body and pullin'
wood ticks out av me skin. The only
thing that kapes q picnic from being
miserble Ter wan famill Is that all tn
neighbors ar're in the same fix.
Practise marches is not much
better Whin a soier goes on prac-
tise mar'rch he usually comes back
better sojer or he comes back in
kind av drame from which he don't
awate till his times out
Whin We 60 on practise mar'rch
ye start out wit q load that burro
would carry wit no protes', but wit a
falin that It's har'rd worf t live in
and enemies beset him, an We carry
tn load up hill. Sometimes In me
life, Rookie. have gone up q hill an
down agin. but not on a practise
mar'rch. On practise marches It's
all up hill.
After Marching, Then
.Dhurin' tn day ye stroll along fer
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utes every hour and wan hour at
noon. and whin tn shade av evenin'
is fallin' and We are so tired We look
wit longing Z tn time to go to
sleep, We knock off tn mar'rchin an
set some recreation be putin t'gether
yer pup tints and dom few chores.
afther which We ates a supper cooked
be q graduate av tn ARMY cookin'
school, who passed tn examination
be wan wan-hunderth av a pint and
has sence forgot enough to take him
back to twenty-five pints average, If
We tested him any on billed dishes.
AN thin comes bed time, and We
crawl In only to fin that livery time
We go to slape ye drame We ARE
mar'rchin' again and wake up in mis-
cry. tn only possibility ay' nights
rist after this Is that nachure may
kinly sind We a drame that We are
a cavalry man in the daytime an
infantryman at night gettin' tn plea
shure av ridin' without tn trouble av
curryin. feedin', watherin and other
wise humorin' a horse.
Some Not Man Eaters.
Even thin, We will have to have
stiddy nerves to slape. Whin liver a
man gifts in tint courier starts
through tn woods notifyin' all tn bugs,
beetles and frogs and they begins to
welcom' him. Tn frogs sings, the
beetles chirps, and tn hugs all comes
in to gather a square meal off yer
carcass or If they ar're not man eat
ers, to crawl around on We lookin' fer
other bugs that is.
"Afther a few days in tn open a
man comes back sunburned, hongry,
lookin' happy jist to kape from gettin'
kidded, an so spotted on his body be
tn bites av bugs that If he was t. on
dhress in tn prisince av dhoctors
they would be enable to decide whe-
Their he had smallpox or tn measles
which is not so unusual, afther all, as
dhoctors is usually enable to decide
annythin' if more thin wan av thin
is present.
Fattenine For Bugs.
9Th life ay tn open, as led be