| Show HAD DONE WORK thoroughly corporal literally volleyed 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 something of a crank ile he had two hobbles hobbies one was that the liberal use of whitewash was the best possible preventive of disease and the other was a pet flamin flamingo gr an ill natured bird that was disliked heartily by the enlisted men because it never overlooked an opportunity to nip nil ono of them one day the post commander had to go to havana but he could not endure the thought that anyone should lie be idle in his absence it had been tully 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 execution of the order the post commander returned next day and pretty soon the air was fairly I 1 blue with his cursing the so soldiers beard the noise but they were ivere not curious they knew what it w was as all about the post comman commanders dera brilliant flamingo was white a as 3 a snowy heron |
