Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07

shall you do" tell him. Ali it was
an Irish so comic. He sees one box
break upon the wharf that contain for
the guard few gun, He think there
is gun in all the box. But that is all
pick-axe. Yes. All! senior, could you
the face of that Irish have seen when
they set him to work.
"'Twas TINS the ex-boss Of the en-
ployment bureau contributed to the
tedium Of the trip with merry jests and
anecdote But now and then he would
weep upon the bananas and make ora
ton about the lost cause of liberty
and the mule.
Twas a pleasant sound when the
steamer bumped against the pier in
New Orleans. Pretty soon we heard
the pat-a,pat of hundreds Of bare feet,
fruit jumped upon the deck and down
into the hold. Me and the general
worked while at passin' up the
lunches, and they thought We were
| part Of the gang. After about an hour
we managed to slip off the steamer on
/ to the wharf.
! A"'Twas a great honor on the hands
OF an obscure Clancy, havin the en-
| 'ertainment of the representative Of a.
I great foreign filibusterin' power.
first bought for the general and myself
many long drinks and things to eat
! that were not bananas The general
! man trotted along at my side leayin'
l-all the arrangements to me. l led him
I up to Lafayette Square and set him on
bench in the little park. Cigarettes
l had bought for him, and he bumped .
himself down on the scat like a little
! fat, conteRted hobo. l look him over as
he sets there, and what / see pleases me.
Brown by nature and instinct, he is now
brindied with dirt and dust. Praise to
/ the mule, his clothes is mostly strings
and flaps. Yes, the looks of the general
man is agreed Bile to Clancy.
| Il ask him, delicate, If, by any chance,
/ he brought away anFbody's money with
/ him from Guatemala. He signs and
bumps his shoulders against the bench.
/ Not cent. All right. Maybe, he tells
me- some OF his friends in the tropic out
fit will send him funds later. The gem
/ eral was as clear a case Of no visible
means as4 ever saw.
81 told him not to move from the
/ bench and then l went up to the cor
ner OF Poydras and Carondelet. Along
/ there is O'Hara's beat In five minutes
! along comes O'Hara, big, fine man,
/ his club. 'Twould be a fine thing for
/ Guatemala to move into OHara's pre-
/ cinct. TwOuld be fine bit of recrea-
/ ton for Danny to suppress revolutions
/ and uprisings once or twice week with
! his club.
"Ts 5O46 workin' yet. DannyY says
| [, walkin' up TO him.
/ "+Overtime,' says O'Hara, lookin' over
me suspicious Want some Of itT
! Fifty forty six is the celebrated city
/ ordinance authorizin' arrest, conviction
and imprisonment OF persons shat sue
coed in concealin' their crimes from the
: police.
Don't We know Jimmy Clancy?'
/ says l, 'Ye pink gilled monster So
/ when O'Hara recognized me beneath the
scandalous exterior bestowed upon me by
/ the tropics. backed him into a door
way and told him what 1 wanted. and
I Univ tod -frrbE
says O'dara. Go back and hold the
bench III be along in ten minutes
In that time 0'Hara strolIed through
! Lafayette Square and spied two Weary
/ Wlllles disgracin one of the benches. In
/ ten minutes more J. Clancy and General
De Vega, late candidate for the presi-
| dency Of Guatemala, was in the station
house. The general is badly frightened
and calls upon me to proclaim his dis
! tinguishments and rank.
The man. says Ito the police, used
/ to be railroad man. He's on the bum
now. It's little bug house he is, ON
/ account Of losin' his job
'Carrambos = says the general fizzin'
/ like little saltwater fountain, you
/ fought, senior, with my forces in my ma
/ tive country. Why do you say the lies?
/ You shall say I am the General De Vega,
! one soldier, one caballerO-"
-" 'Railroader,' says l again. On the
| hog. No good. Been Twin for three
/ days on stolen bananas. Look at him.
( AIN { IDaL en0uEnE
Twenty five dollars or sixty days, was
] what the recorder gave the general. He
! didn't have a cent, so he took the time.
! Tney let me go, as I knew they would
/ for I had money to show, and O'Hara
/ spoke for me. Yes; sixty days he got
/ Twas just so long that l slung a pick
/ for the great country of Kam-Guate-
mala.'
Clancy paused. The bright starlight
showed a reminiscent look Of happy CON
! tent on his seasoned features. Ke0gh
/ leaned in his chair and gave his partner
/ a slap on his thinly clad back that
! sounded like the crack of the surf on the
sands
"Tell EN-, We divil," he chuckled. "how
/ you got even with the tropical general
in the way of agricultural maneuver-
/ ings."
"Havin' no money" concluded Clancy,
with JUNCTION, they set him to work out
| his fine with a gang from the parish
| prison clearing Ursulines street. Around
| the corner was d saloon decorated gen
| tally with electric fans and cool mer-
| chandise. 1 made that ME headquarters
/ and every fifteen minutes I'd walk
! around and take look at the
/ little man flibusteria with a rake and
| shovel. Twas just such a hot broth of
| 4 day as this has been. And I'd call at
| him, Hey, mOnseer! and he'd look at
! me black, with the damp shown through
! his shirt in places.
"'Fat. strong MANS says I to Cen
leans. Yes. To carry on the good work
| Carrambos! Erin go bragh!"
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