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"And will he live to old age in this condition?" "He might, if there were nothing else the matter with him, but there is, and perhaps it's a fortunate thing. He's got a new disease called filariasis, a sort of low fever that he picked up in the Cubapines or Porsslania. There's a good deal of it among the soldiers who have come back.
My father has an interest in the Metropolitan Daily Lyre, and I've written to him for an appointment as correspondent in the Cubapines. What I've learned here will help me a lot. But I want you to go with me." "Me? Go with you? Do you think I'd be a newspaper correspondent?" "No, of course not. It never entered my head. But why don't you get a commission in the volunteers from your uncle?
The major-general had by this time exhausted all possible subjects of conversation with his host and sat silent, and Sam felt obliged to turn his attention to him, and was soon engaged in relating his experience in the Cubapines. Meanwhile Cleary had been conversing with the brave young lieutenant at his side and the reverend gentlemen beyond him.
Off for the Cubapines By the next morning's mail Sam's commission arrived, and with it orders to report at once at the city of St. Kisco, whence a transport was about to sail on a date which gave Sam hardly time to catch it.
Sam had hardly time to take breath from the moment of his departure from Slowburgh to the evening on which he and Cleary at last sat down in their sleeping-car. His friend heaved a deep sigh. "Well, here we are actually off and I haven't got anything to do for a change. This is what I call comfort." "Yes," said Sam, "but I wish we were in the Cubapines.
May they represent Slowburgh honorably in the Cubapines and show 'em what Slowburghers are like," said Jackson, elevating his iced cocktail. The health was heartily drunk. "And here is to that distinguished officer, Captain Jinks. Long may he wave!" cried old Reddy. "Speech, speech!" exclaimed the convivial crowd.
"That's true," said the young man, "but perhaps there might have been if they'd stayed. They say that Squire Jones was going to have Josh Thatcher arrested next week for his barn, but he's agreed to let up if he'd go to the Cubapines. Maybe that isn't true, but they say so." "I venture to say that it is a mistake," said Sam, who had been much pained by the conversation.
"I'm sorry for that," said Sam. "It would be pleasanter to be called 'General." "It's all the same," said Cleary. "Wasn't Napoleon called the Little Corporal? It's really more distinguished." "Perhaps it is," said Sam contentedly. "Some of the papers criticize us a little too," added Cleary. "They say we are acting brutally here and in the Cubapines.
You see, he explained to me that in this country trusts have grown up with great difficulty, and it was hard work to establish the benefits which they produce for the public. They were fought at every step. But in the Cubapines we have a clean field, and by getting the Government monopoly whenever we want it, we can found one big trust and do ever so much good.
The Eastern papers with scarcely an exception took up the strain of those of St. Lewis. Why did Captain Jinks discriminate against the women of the East? He had kissed the whole West. Probably he had also kissed all the women of the Cubapines and Porsslania. It was only the women of the East that he could not find heart to salute in the same way.
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