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"But Cogan, who was off a cruiser in Colon harbor, had to be back aboard for quarters that morning; and after quarters it was up the coast to Chiriqui Lagoon to coal ship, and it was three days more before he was back in Colon.
That's the same hotel which had been the George Washington Hotel, later the Cleveland House, and at this time was the Hotel McKinley, but with an intention soon to call it the Roosevelt House. If it's there now, it must be the Hotel Taft. "Cogan had the end room of the lower floor of the hotel wing which ran down toward the beach. The ocean rolled almost up to the window of his room.
Cogan was one of twenty or thirty thousand who crowded to the stone pier that day, and when the beautiful white ships came rounding in, he felt very proud. And the yellow tongues of flame flashing and the white sides of the great war-ships gleaming through the smoke it made a tremendous impression on everybody; but to Cogan's eyes the tears came.
But to stop to brace for that stroke and a rampant seventeen-hundred-pound bull piling down on top of you, and to pick out a spot on his neck no bigger than a fifty-cent piece! And if you missed your spot! Or were a little bit slow! Even in being too soon there was danger, if you could imagine a man being too quick. "That was how Cogan looked at it, and he felt himself worrying for Torellas.
The children said nothing for a while, and then Dick said: "Tell us about Cluricaunes, and how they make the boots." "Whin I'm tellin' you about Cluricaunes," said Mr Button, "it's the truth I'm tellin' you, an' out of me own knowlidge, for I've spoke to a man that's held wan in his hand; he was me own mother's brother, Con Cogan rest his sowl!
And he was told that he was, and that Luis Roca was now engaged in an enormous hat business with the United States, and had grown very wealthy, thanks to the increase of trade since the American occupation of the Isthmus. And Cogan inquired further was there a daughter who would be now about eighteen? 'A daughter? Blood of a bull surely. And beautiful?
Andrew Cogan at the head, assisted by Mr. Francis Day and perhaps another chief official, included some three or four British 'writers, a gunner, a surgeon, a garrison of some twenty-five British soldiers under a lieutenant and a sergeant, a certain number of English carpenters, blacksmiths and coopers, and a small staff of English servants for kitchen and general work.
In spite of their arms and their hearts, he is able triumphantly to proclaim their defeat. Milo de Cogan, the Norman governor of Dublin, fell upon his assailants suddenly. John the Mad was slain, as were also nearly all the Berserkers. Hasculph was brought back in triumph, and promptly beheaded by the conquerors.
However, he was always in tow of some fancy or other. And one day, being free of the navy, he went to Peru." "Twas love at first sight then with that young Peruvian girl on the beach?" "No, I don't think so not quite that. Even at that age Cogan could not fall in love with curves and color alone.
'She never allows me to forget that, said the Peruvian. 'Also possibly she knows, he smiled, 'that if I am at home I shall not be in mis-cheef, and he said he hoped they'd meet again next day and bowed himself out. "Cogan went off later to his hotel.
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