"Yes, only I would prefer to have the boys in the bushes than a lot of Spaniards and Cubans with real bullets in their guns," replied Bert.
"You always do look at the unromantic side of things, Bert. We haven't seen a Spaniard yet."
"Good and plenty when we get in the open," said Washington.
"How do you know this country so well, Washington?" asked Harry.
"Born here, Misser Harry. I'se Cuban nigger."
"I thought you said you were 'George Wash Jenks, New York, U. S. A.?'"
"I suah are now, sah. I was only a picaninny when I ranned away with Massa Cap'n Dynamite."
"So you ran away with your young master, eh?"
"Yas, sah, dat's it."
"And you've been with him ever since?"