Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — “Boiled Eggs” at San Juan. [ARTICLE]

“Boiled Eggs” at San Juan.

The most amusing sights grow out of the attempts of the numerous Americans who drop into San Juan, to converse with the native Porto Ricans. A correspondent mentions the case of a loud-voiced American in the breakfast room of a hotel who was vociferating wildly in the midst of an interested crowd. He was shaking his fists and yelling “Boiled eggs!” at short intervals. .If he had said “eggs” merely, some one might have understood, but “boiled eggs” spoken as one word, floored everybody. Then he began to scold the natives for a Idt of donkeys and fools,and wanted to know whether they had ever gone to school. “Cool, cool, yes!” cried the head waiter. “I know cool!” He ran away and soon caine back with a plate of cracked ice. At.this stage, the American was on the point of exploding with wrath, when a friend, who understood Spanish, stepped up and straightened out the affair.