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A Gunner Aboard the """"Yankee""""

CHAPTER XVI
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The others were a captain and commander respectively.

"Hay" was immediately surrounded and asked to describe what he saw ashore.
"I have had the honor of photographing a detachment of the Cuban Army of Liberation," he replied, quizzically.

"To tell the truth, it looked like a part of Coxey's army.

There were about thirty of them, and the clothing of the whole outfit wouldn't supply a New England farmer with a season's scarecrow.

They carried guns of all descriptions, some of them with the barrels sawed off short like cavalry carbines; and not one of the men looked as if he knew the meaning of a square meal." "Like Washington's army at Valley Forge, eh ?" observed LeValley, joining the group.
"Yes, and they are fighting for their liberty, too." "How did they like being photographed ?" asked Tommy.
"Tickled to death.


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