. A story from the Philippines . ting Christ-mas letters to our loved ones. We wouldmail them to-night in Yigan, but manyweeks would elapse before they would beread, for you know it takes forty days for a 60 A Story from the Philippines. letter to travel from Manila to New York. There were two or three men who hadnothing to write—no one to write to, so theysaid, poor fellows, so I detailed them toforage for our Christmas dinner. In aboutan hour they returned. Two had half adozen chickens hanging on their guns, andthe third had captured a small pig. Theyhad taken a sack with them and theybrough
. A story from the Philippines . ting Christ-mas letters to our loved ones. We wouldmail them to-night in Yigan, but manyweeks would elapse before they would beread, for you know it takes forty days for a 60 A Story from the Philippines. letter to travel from Manila to New York. There were two or three men who hadnothing to write—no one to write to, so theysaid, poor fellows, so I detailed them toforage for our Christmas dinner. In aboutan hour they returned. Two had half adozen chickens hanging on their guns, andthe third had captured a small pig. Theyhad taken a sack with them and theybrought this back filled with rice. The fireswere started, the chickens cleaned and hungover one flame to cook and the pig over an-other. The men had captured an olla (pot)with the other spoils and in this the ricewas cooked. Dinner was ready in about half an hour;there was no table, no table-cloth, no any-thing that looked like home and Christmas;but we all enjoyed the meal and were and Antonio sat a little apart from. be r. ~ O c/D .K .. \S L Christmas Day. 61 the soldiers, but I could see that they, too,enjoyed their dinner and were amused atthe inerry jests and Christmas tales thatwere told. We drank in pure cold spring water, aheartfelt toast: Home, sweet home, and aspeedy end to the war. Again we mounted and were on the a while we commenced to pass farmsthat looked more cheerful and prosperousthan any we had seen, and the style of thefarm houses or shacks denoted that we werenearing a town. I said to the senorita, Beof good cheer; we are nearing your flashed a smile at me, and I could seethat she was excited. Soon we passed a bigconvent, which only a few months ago hadbeen occupied by some holy order. Andwhen they had fled from it the insurgentstook possession of it as a fort—but they too 62 A Story from the Philippines. had gone, and now it was bullet ridden anddeserted. A little further on we passed aparty of friendly Filipinos going int
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