Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
The Shamrock and The Palm
By O. HENRY .s E' Il: i: VIZ. :;sa.: ~:
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BILE and graspin his hand, 4 don't know
where your country it. but me heart
bleeds for IL. The heart of a Clancy
was never deaf to the sight of an OPP
pressed pepole. The family is flibuster-
ers by birth, and Foreigners by trade.
If you can use James Clancy's arms and
his blood Ia denudin' your shores of
the tyrants yoke they're yours TO COM
mand.'
General De Vega was overcome with
JOY TO confscate my coincidence of his
conspiracies and predicaments. He tried
to embrace me across the table, but his
fairness, and the wine that had been In
Che bottles prevented. Thus was | well
coined into the ranks of hlibustery. Then
the general man told me his country had
the name of Guatemala, and was the
greatest nation laved by any ocean what9
ever anywhere He looked at me with
tears in his eyes, and from time TO time
he would emit the remark, An! big,
strong, brave mans! That is what my
country need
"GeHeral De Vega, as was the name
by which he denounced himself, brought
out a document for me to sign, which l
did, maxim a fine flourish and cu1lycue
with the tail Of the y
"'Your passage money says the gem
eral, business-hke, shall from your pay
deduct
civil not says I, naughty. IN pay
my own passage A hundred and eighty
dollars l had in my INSIDE pocket, and
twas no common hlibuster / was goin,
to be- hIibusterin' for me board and
clothes.
"The steamer was to sail in two hours,
and l went ashore to get some things
together I'd need. When l came aboard
showed the general with pride the out
fit. Twas a fine Chincllla overcoat, Arc
/ tic overshoes fur caps and earmuns,
with elegant heece-lined gloves and
wooden muffler.
| What clothes are these that shall go to
the trupic?' And then the little spal-
peen laughs, and he CANS the captain,
and the captain calls the purser, ana
they pipe up the chief engineer ana the
wholS- gang leans against the cabin ana
laughs at Claney's wardrobe for Guate-
mala.
II reflects a bit, serious, and asks the
general again to denominate the terms
by which his country is called. BE tells
me, and l see then that twas the tother
one, Kamchatka, | had in mind. Since
then I've had difficulty in separatin' the
I two nations in name, climate and geo
graphics disposition.
Il paid my passage-twenty- four dol
lars. first cabin-and at the table with
/ the officer crowd Down on the lower
deck was a gang Of second class passen-
/ gers about forty OF them, seenin to be
DagOes and the like wondered what
!
We'll. then, in three days we sailed
alongside that Guatemala. Twas a blue
country, and not yellow as tbs mist Of
/ orod on the map. We landed at town
on the coast, where q train OF cars was
| waitin' Tor us on dinkly railroad. The
/ boxes on the steamer were brought
ashore and loaded on the cars. The
gang of DagOes got aboard, too, the gen
eral and me in the front car Yes. me
and General De Neva headed the revo-
] NNa..l Of Hf.sfrn pH
town. That train travelled about as fast
/ as a policeman goln' % a riot. II pene-
trated the most conspicuous lot OF fuzzy
, scenery ever seen outside geography.
We run some forty miles In seYeIr hours,
and the train stopped. There was no
more railroad.> Twas Il sort Of camp in
a damp gorge fun of wildness and mel
ancholies. They were gradin' and chop
PIN out the forests ahead to continue
the road. Here says / to myself, is
the romantic haunt OF the reyolutiOnists.
Here viii Clancy, by the virtue that Is
IN a superior race and the incubation of
/ Fenlan tactics, strike tremendous blow
1 for liberty
tThey unloaded the boxes from the
train and begun to knock the tops of.
I From the first one that was open saw
General De Vega take the Winchester
rifles and pass them around 20 4 squad
OF morbid soldiery. The other boxes
we're opened next and, believe me Or
not, diyll another gun was to be seen.
! Every other box In the load was full of
pickaxes and spades.
And then-sorrow be upon them
tropics-the proud Clancy and the dis
honored Dagoes, each one Of them, had
TO shoulder a pick or spade, and
march away to work on that dirty little
railroad. Yes; twas that the Dagoes
shipped for, and twas that the hlibus-
term Clancy signed for, though unbe-
knownst to himself at the time. In after
days ] found out pbout It, It seems
twas hard 20 get hands TO work on that
road. The intelligent natives Of the coun-
try was too lazy to work. Indeed the
saints know. twas unnecessary. BY
stretchin' out one hand, they could seize
the most delicate and costly fruits OF
the earth, and, by stretchin' out the
other they COULD sleep for days at a
time without hearin a seven o'clock whis-
tie or the footsteps Of the rent man upon
the stairs. SO. regular. the steamers
travelled to the United States 10 seduce
labor Usually the imported spade
singers died in two or three months
from eating the over ripe water and