In Porto Rico; a part of greater America . y await myreply; or fat Sehor Correa would sputter,I deednt do a ting to im my coal blacklady get out of here hot stuff! and beamupon me for approval. I could hardly refrain from emphaticdisapproval. It made no difference that Iexplained, again and again, the lack ofsense in these remarks; they had heard Life in porto rico. 29 the Americanos say the words, and thewords were English; therefore if theyremembered the words correctly, theywere learning to speak the language. Perhaps the worst offender of all was acertain Estevan Castro, who knew but oneph
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In Porto Rico; a part of greater America . y await myreply; or fat Sehor Correa would sputter, I deednt do a ting to im my coal blacklady get out of here hot stuff! and beamupon me for approval. I could hardly refrain from emphaticdisapproval. It made no difference that Iexplained, again and again, the lack ofsense in these remarks; they had heard Life in porto rico. 29 the Americanos say the words, and thewords were English; therefore if theyremembered the words correctly, theywere learning to speak the language. Perhaps the worst offender of all was acertain Estevan Castro, who knew but onephrase in our tongue and always greeted me with it, nomatter where wemight meet, oftento my extremeembarrassment.Hola, senor!he would shout.You are onegreat big liar ! Many times did I remon-strate with him and point out his uninten-tional insult; he was grieved and penitentand offered me ten thousand pardons, onlyto repeat his . performance at the nextopportunity. The greater part of my stay in PortoRico was during the rainy season, and at. GATEWAY, SAN JUAN. 30 LIFE IN PORTO RICO. first I expected to see nothing better forweather than a constant downpour; but Iwas pleasantly surprised. Sometimes, it istrue, rain would fall in torrents for two orthree days in succession, perhaps accom-panied by blinding flashes of lightning anddeafening thunder. Usually we were let off with a singledaily shower of not more than an hoursduration. I have since been told, however, that if I had been stationed on the northerncoast instead of the western, I should havelearned in good earnest why the summerseason is called rainy. Yellow fever, despite a general beliefto the contrary, is by no means a commondisease in this island. Indeed, some local-ities, like Mayaguez and Aguadilla, havenot known a solitary case of the dreadedplague for many years. The chief excep-tion to this happy immunity is the capital, San Juan. Among the insects of the island a LIFE IN PORTO RICO. 31 literally prominent place is