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Updated: June 26, 2025
Our ancestors were patriotic and fought for freedom oncet, and now we're going to be patriotic and stick by the government just like they did." "Yes, they fought for freedom, that's true. And what are the Cubapinos fighting for?" asked the young man. "Oh, shucks!" cried Reddy. "I ain't a-going to argher with you. What were we talking about? Oh, yes.
I appeal to the patriotic Cubapinos at this board, if we are not introducing a higher and nobler civilization into these islands." The native gentlemen bowed assent. "Have we not given them a better language than their own? Have we not established our enlightened institutions? For instance, let me cite the custom house. We have the collector here with us and the post-office. The postmaster is "
"We were just a-talking about them Cubapinos," explained Reddy. "The idee of them fellers a-pitching into us after all we've done for 'em. It's outrageous. They're only monkeys anyway, and they ought to be shot, every mother's son on 'em. Haven't we freed 'em from the cruel Castalians that they've been hating so for three hundred years?"
It was not until he saw the captain whom he had met in the woods mangled and instantly killed by a piece of shell that he became so angry that he could restrain himself no longer. He gave the order to fix bayonets, and with a yell the men rose from their lairs and rushed over the intervening ground to the enemy's position. The Cubapinos did not wait for them, but turned and ran precipitously.
"Come," said Sam to Cleary, "let's go over there and look at it. It's a half-mile walk and it will do me good." "How are things at San Diego?" asked Sam, as they walked along together. "You've been out there, haven't you?" "Yes. We'll have to come in. The Cubapinos have got a force together at a town farther down the river and are threatening us there.
Good-by, Havilla," he added, waving his hat toward the capital. "It makes me feel happy to think that I have actually ended the war by capturing Gomaldo." "Not much!" cried Cleary. "Didn't you hear the news this morning? The Cubapinos are twice as active as ever. They're rising everywhere."
The Government will take about three-quarters of the lot. The rest we'll have to unload on the Cubapinos." "What!" exclaimed Sam, "aren't they fighting against us now?" "Oh! we don't sell them direct of course," added Jonas, "but we can't alter the laws of trade, can we? And they require that things get into the hands of the people who'll pay the most for them, hey?" "Naturally," said the editor.
"How our poor fellows are called upon to suffer for these ungrateful Cubapinos! Still they can feel that they are suffering for their country, too. That's a consolation." "There's more consolation than that," said Foster, "for we're spreading the thing like wildfire among the natives. We'll come out ahead." "I wish, tho, that they wouldn't fly Old Gory over the house," said Sam.
You wouldn't believe it, but they actually kicked at it. They're an unreasonable, sulky lot of beggars." "Then what happened after that?" asked Sam. "Oh, after that we sent the Castalians home and the Cubapinos moved back their lines a little, and we agreed to a sort of neutral zone and a line beyond which we weren't to go." "What was it that started the fighting between us and them?" said Sam.
Of the Cubapinos he could see nothing but the smoke of their guns and muskets here and there. Shells were falling in another part of the field, but nowhere near him. Bullets were flying thick through the air, and he heard them hissing constantly. As he looked he saw one of the Gatling crew fall over, doubled up in a heap.
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