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Updated: May 28, 2025
A Surprise Party of Bolo-Men Forty Insurrectos Arrive in Our Neighborhood Anecdotes of Encounters with Insurgents Anxiety Because of Treachery of the Natives A False Alarm Five Hundred Starving Persons Great Lack of Institutions for the Poor Smallpox Patient in the School Building The Newspaper a Creator of Hysteria.
For she had asked him who that woman was who had been so direct in her smiling salute. And he had not yet replied; probably never would; for she did not expect to ask him again. Meanwhile the bolo-men were rushing the outposts to the outposts' intense satisfaction. "Bang-bang!" repeated Winthrop; "I hit you, Uncle Philip. You are dead, you know!" "Yes, but here comes another! Fire!" shouted Billy.
And the pretty scene ended so abruptly that Selwyn laughed aloud as he rejoined her: "There was a man 'Boots' Lansing in Bannard's command. One night on Samar the bolo-men rushed us, and Lansing got into the six-foot major's boots by mistake seven-leaguers, you know and his horse bucked him clean out of them."
So he got as close to quarters as he could, and instead of blowing reveille, blew the call to arms with all his soul, and then ran for his life. The American troops swarmed out in their underdrawers and cartridge belts, and that surprise party turned right about face. The squatting women on the plaza, who were bolo-men in disguise, left for the hills with the yelling undergarmented in pursuit.
The cook smiled, but disdained explanation. It all dawned upon Cairns a second later. He would have followed the wire to the end in the jungle where the trap of knives would spring.... The bolo-men need but a moment.... It was only two or three days later that one of the packers dropped behind the Train to tighten a cinch. No one had noticed, and Thirteen filed on.
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