The firing was very high and we were in no danger so I told the lieutenant to let us charge across an open place and take a tin shack which was held by the Spaniards' rear guard, for they were open in retreat.
Roosevelt ordered his men to do the same thing and we ran forward cheering across the open and then dropped in the grass and fired.

I guess I fired about twenty rounds and then formed into a strategy board and went off down the trail to scout.

I got lonely and was coming back when I met another trooper who sat down and said he was too hot to run in any direction Spaniard or no Spaniard.

So we sat down and panted.
At last he asked me if I was R.H.D.and I said I was and he said "I'm Dean, I met you in Harvard in the racquet court." Then we embraced--the tenth came up then and it was all over.

My leg, thank goodness, is all right again and has been so for three days.