The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 28, May 20, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various
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page 17 of 46 (36%)
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Walking round among the guns, he noticed that they were pointed at various groups of houses. He asked what these buildings were that lay in the line of fire. "Just houses," he was told. "Residences." "Do rebels or suspected rebels live in them?" he asked. "Why, no," he was told. "Citizens." The Colonel was so astonished at this that he did not know what to say. He didn't wonder that the people were dissatisfied and frightened. For months they had lived with the knowledge that the big guns were trained upon them, and that at any moment a careless or frightened soldier might pull the lanyard, fire a cannon off, and blow half Honolulu to smithereens. He did not say much, but felt that he would have to make many changes in affairs, and went to bed to think things over. He was awakened in the middle of the night by cries of: "Hi! hi! hi! there! Say! It's half-past two." It took him some time to realize that this was the soldierly manner in which the Hawaiian army changed the guard, and when the truth finally dawned upon him, he laughed himself to sleep over the comic army he was |
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