Bamboo Tales
By
Ira L. Reeves.
1st Lieut. 4th Infantry,
Author of
“Twenty-four Hours on a Mountain,” “Looking Forward,”and other Short Stories.
Illustrations by
J. Alexander Mackay.
Press of
Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co.,
Kansas City, U. S. A.
Copyright, 1900,
Hudson-kimberly Publishing Co.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Respectfully Dedicated
To the
“First Man up San Juan Hill.”
Contents.
- How the Spaniards Campaigned in Luzon 7
- “Cougar” Daly 19
- A Dying Spaniard’s Request 31
- Benito 38
- The Army Mule 65
- Comedy and Carnage 67
- How I Saw Aguinaldo 79
- What the Wounded Say and Do 92
- The Flight of “Father Time” 101
- Camp Alarms 106
- An Encounter with Bolomen 124
- “Carabao Bill” 135
- “Paterno,” the Disgraced Mascot 158
How the Spaniards Campaigned in Luzon.
A Translation from a Spanish Officer’s Diary Found at San Fernando de Pampanga, Luzon, by an American Officer.
“It happened that we left such a hidden retirement and we went into Taal. We employed more than a whole day on the road, morethan half of which we passed in a lagoon with water up to our waists. We arrived on the seventh.
“After six days of rest, on guard every other day, we embarked the thirteenth for Paranaque, where we arrived the fourteenthin the morning, and on the following day we left with rations of sea biscuit for three days, and at the end of the day wearrived at the camp of St. Nicholas, where we found encamped the Division La Chambre, which we joined.[...