An Unnecessary Palaver.
General Hughes, who recently returned from the Philippines, tells a story (says the Chicago Journal) about an Irish volunteer private who was acting as guard over a captured Spanish storehouse, and 'had received orders to pass no one without a special order from the provost-marshal of •Manila. General Hughes was provost-marshal at the time, and when he drew near the storehouse he found his stomach very close to a triangular Springfield bayonet, and heard in rich Milesian brogue: " Halt ! If yez come a step further I'll jam this inter yez! " "Why not?" asked the .general. " Niver moind," said the private. "I know me orders. 'Tia a pass yez must have from the provost-marshal." " Well, I'm the provost-marshal," said General Hughes. " 'Tia I that don't care if yez be the prisident. Divil a foot yell sit inside here till yez show me yer pass." The general drew out a blank book and scribbled a pass. The private surveyed it and passed General Hughes with the remark: "Why didn't yer do that without all this palaver? ' J
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Otago Witness, Issue 2513, 14 May 1902, Page 72
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178An Unnecessary Palaver. Otago Witness, Issue 2513, 14 May 1902, Page 72
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