Nebraska advertiser., 1858-10-14
BoBTAIL 5 GREAT PRIZE STORY
The Doomed Monarch;
Or. the Ficnd CodtiSh.
BY Il. X. BOBT ALL.
CHAPTER 1.

CHAPTER 1.
1t was night nowhere, and nowhere
was as dark as a bottle Of ink in a barrel
of pitch at the bottom of well, and forty
four thousand times darker than the con-
centrated darkness of forty thousand mid
nights, when upon a throne of petrified
turtle soup. stood the mighty Gengulphus
monarch of the Fe Fl Fo Fun Islands,
eating a slics of buttered beeswax, oCca-
sionally wetting his lips by drinking fluid
ical wrought iron sheet anchors, fuke
foremost.
Around him stood ninety-two thousand
nine hundred and eighty-seven and half
Courtiers!
Bring forth the whangdoodle and place
it on the hewgagr exclaimed he in a ter
rife voice, at the same time cutting
courtier's head with the sharp edge of an
Illuminated cotton bale.
CHAPTER II.
The whangdoodle was placed upon the
hewgag-but, before we go further, let
us take a glance at the political state of
America at the time our story opens. We
we're involved in a war with Mexico,
and Gen. Scott was carrying our vlctorl-
GUS flag through the halls Of the Monte
losers. General Washington, command
ing the home army, had formed juno
ton with Christopher Columbus at Nau-
VOC, and defeated the combined forces of
England, France and Hindostan, in a
sanguinary retreat on Bungtown heights.
John c. Fremont, President of the Unit
ed States, had appointed James Buchanan
Governor of Cape Cod; and Napoleon
Bonaparte, as Mayor of Bunker Hill, as
sisted by Lieutenant General Barner o.
! Twigger, of Ireland, was preparing for a
descent upon tories at Cerro GordO, while
DIR. Jayne, L. S. Surgeon, was construct
ing a strong fort at Cairo, armed with a
chain-pump ard one hundred of his Car
minative Balsam,
( Under these tremendous circumstances
no wonder the men and women Of the
nineteenth century were highly Intellect
ual, and, genesally speaking, born when
they were young.
Turn we again TO our story.
CHAPTER III.
The whangdoodIe was placed upon the
hewgag. Dismay and terror sat upon
the couutenanCes of the nobility. Lord
De Mona involuntary clutched the Prince
BlowhuShb's coat tail, and the Countess
of Fizfum disappeared Historically with,
in her hoops, while the bold Count de
Scratch, hitherto the bravest of the brave
threw himself at-the foot of the throne
and elevated one leg as signal of the
distress. But the mighty Gengul phu;
was unmoved. Drawing a golden wire
safety fuse from his bosom, he was in the
act Of attaching one end of it to the
whangdoodle horror Of horrors ht
beheId in one corner of the room his be.
loved Selleh located in the arms of Fet
tile Swash BoSby, Envoy Extraordinary
from the Isle of Wight!
CHAPTER ".
To say Gengulphus was aLgry woulC
be but an Indifferent statement of tht
truth. He was in rage. He couldn'
contain himself, and consequently boileC
over in torrents that formed puddles o
wrath at his feet. He foamed, rayed
ripped and tore, stamped, rolled, kicked
and roared. At last, seizing a batterins
ram by the horns, he made furious pusl
at the guilty pair.
CHAPTER V.
: "Die!n shrieked Gengulphus as h.
: twirled the fearful instrument abov
their heads; but alas, in its swift descen
it came in contact with Baron de Bousey'
S pipe, and glancing at right angles, Glow
r asunder the massive door leading TO tn
Royal Menagerie Birthstone and tor
: pedoes! Numbered Gengulphus-but h
D was too late. Ere he could raise agai
' the huge weapon, a fierce demoniaca
4 howl ran through the rooms, and the mo
ment an infuriated grizzly Goldfish ra
e madly forth from the demolished door
e and buried its deadly fangs in the seat G
d the mighty Gengulphus' inexpressibles