Show had done work thoroughly corporal literally obeyed orders of post commandant gen clarence edwards chief of the insular bureau of the war department tells how an irish corporal got even with an unpopular post commander in cuba this post commander though an excellent soldier was some thing of a crank he had two hob bies one was that the liberal use of whitewash was the best possible pre of disease and the other was a pet flamingo an natured bird that was disliked heartily by the enlisted men because it never overlooked an opportunity to nip one of them one day the post commander had to go to havana but he could not en dure the thought that anyone should be idle in his absence it had been fully a week since any whitewashing had been done so he issued an order that all articles pertaining to the camp not sheltered from the weather should be whitewashed the irish corporal was In trusted with the execl kioa of the arder the post commander returned next day and pretty soon the air was fair ly blue with his cursing the sol diers heard the noise but they were not canous they knew what it was all about the post commander s brilliant flamingo was white as a snowy heron |