Show THE REAL THING we were all waving palm leaf tana young lecy had for duty on the staff end att crazy to see lighting wo who had been to auba for months bad au we could do to survive toder the beat doaa t care bottar abea a broiling sun we ww irritated at thia baby boy who had luet come down from the cool north and had not yet got heated ap there to be a natural law that veterans shall make the service of newly joined aa bitter ae we let lacy off by merely giving him the worst side of the etory in word spoiling or a fight a eald captain kno ates the brigade ad lutkat tomi get tt and soon enough uon t yon worry perhaps you d like to know bome oc the meanings of this bappe land the flint ie the fevere there are all klade of fevers laid down la the medical beoka under the corn mand of general lebow jack when yellow jack takee hold he begins with e gentle chill abea he hits yoa in the email at the back with a club and makes you feel that you must be rubbed with a brick then the vomit lag begins it it begun already followed in bad cadee by throwing up blood then la fatal cases shut up knocke eald lieutenant Aad ereon an aid im turning yellow at listening to you 1 I doot like getting rick myself remarked the new raan 1 I think id wither be killed in battle anyway ife more glorious on ilka that sort of death would you knowles Know tes tt won t feel as well as it reads in the papers it 11 go in lieutenant francis lacy woe shot through the lungs alle gallantly fighting his way up to the enemy works the romance of it do you want to bear real talner no bald all the party of tan wavers thi young man needs it and 1 going to give it to him this Is about the alae of it when the fight opens boutry to pull yourself forward when it as if twenty strong men bad a rope around your body trying to pull you back abea the bullets begin to eing by your ears and you duck that come too near you eee men hit beside you ana lying down pools fit their own blood A pool of blood sounds very aeu in a of the death of a hero but if a disgust ing disagreeable eight aeu now we come to mr lacy A mauser bullet goes through his lung and he knows hes either got to bleed to death or choke oh give us a rest knowles the things bald enough when it comes without dwelling on it beforehand we must all die some time I 1 suppose said lacy bat with none of the ore that had been in him aben the catalogue of commenced tee out you go out and stand la front of getting gua and that some U be pretty quick lacy got up and went away beck on be dou t want to see a fight eald knowlen Know lea aa much as be did the next morning we pushed tor ward to take up a position nearer to santiago abe general had us all out at 2 sending us off on missions to different commanders whose corps were supporting or touching elbows with us I 1 was sent back to to the bringing forward of bome o 0 when I 1 rejoined the staff fighting was going on almog the line As I 1 rode up general I 1 saw that most of the staff except lacy were with him his eye waa fixed on a gap that was every widening between our extreme left and the extreme right of the adjoining corps some go ver there and see to tt that that gap ie closed be said he had ft way of saying some instead or ordering a special officer to perform a work and usually bis order was obeyed but on this occasion the way wae not only difficult but danger ous not a member of the staff stirred abe general looked at them surprised and with what te it gene said lacy who rode ap at the moment 1 I want awne one to rade over there and see that that gap Is closed AH right said the new man and digging bla into borso s flanks be dashed away by thun deri exclaimed the gen eral Is that tool boy going right between the lines hell never get there in the world we all looked after lacy with mouth and eyes wide open he shot through the thick alre of botti armies never wavering never slackening bis pace while every moment we looked him down 1 horse to see go tumbled once or twice and we saw him change the attoe hie left to bla band taU caHng that the left arm bad been att cut be kept on in a bee not wen the path till we aw bin ride up to general officer salute and deliver bis message abe lord javore greenhorne greenhorns green horns ex claimed the general with a sigh of ye vet to be court mar dialed for want of brains but going to give good bend off tor that captain Kno wIce a oon as this Is ovar promulgate aa braer reciting mr lacye service mentioning bim fot con Bolcao us bravery tee e nerl eald knowles then to me be snarled aalde if the war last tone enough the i boy will b and lading every basal the acs ics i cs im ns attner BL 1 |