The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-08-26
from the Bungtown Star of Freedom]
Bobtaips Great Prize Story.
The Doomed Monarch or, the
Fiend Goldfish.
BY T. X. BoETAIL.
CHAPTER I.


Itwas night. nowhere, and nowhere was
as dark as 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 petriied
turtle soup, stood the mighty Gengulphus,
monarch of the Fe III Fo Fun Islands,
eating slice of buttered beeswax, oc-
casionally wetting his lips by drinking
fluidical wrought iron sheet anchors, fiuke
foremost.
Around him stood eighty-two thousand
nine hundred and eighty-seven and half
courtiers.
Bring forth the whangdoodle and
place it on the hewgagr' exclaimed he
in terrific voice, at the same time cut
ting off a courtier's head with the sharp
edge of an Illuminated Gotten bale.
asa CHAPTER II.
The whangdoode was placed upon the
hewgag-but before we'g further, let US
take a glance at the political state of
America at the date our story opens
We were involved in war with Mexico,
and General Scott was carrying our vic
torious flag through the halls of the Mon
te-losers. General Washington, COM
handing the home army, had formed a
junction with Christopher Columbus at
Nauvoo, and defeated the combined for
ces of England, Hindostan and NADIA
gascar, in sanguinary retreat on Bugg-
vile heights. John c. Fremont, Presi-
dent of the United States, had appointed
James Buchanan governor of Cape Cod
and Napoleon Bonaparte, Mayorof Bunk
er Hill, assisted by Lieutenant Gene
raj Barney O'Twigger, of Ireland, was
preparing for descent upon the tories at
Cerro Gordo, whilst DR.. ID. Jayne, U. S.
surgeon, was constructing a strong fort
at Cairo, armed with stomach pump and
one hundred bottles of his Carminative
Balsam.
Under these tremendous circumstances,
no wonder that the men and women of
the 10Th century were highly intellectual,
and generally speaking, born when they
were young.
Turn we again to our story.
cHAPTERM.
The whangdoodle was placed upon the
hewgag. Dismay and terror sat upon
the countenances of the nobility. Lord
de Moza involuntarily clutched Prince
Blowhard's coat tail, and the Countess of
Fizfum disappeared Historically within
her hoops, whilst both Count de Scratch,
hitherto the bravest Of the brave, threw
himself at the foot of the throne and ele-
waited one leg in the air as a signal of
distress. But mighty Gengulphus was
unmoved. Drawing golden wire safety
fuse from his bosom, he was in the act of
attaching one end of it to the whang-
doodle when-Oh, horror of horrors
he beheld in one corner of the room his
beloved Silleh locked in the armes of Fee
ii lie Swosh Bosky, Envoy Extraordinary
from The Lobos Islands.
4a'a cHAPTERrv.
To say that Gengulphus was angry
would be but an indifferent statement of
the truth. He was in rage; he c0aldn't
contain himself. and consequently boiled.
over IN torrents that formed puddles of
wrath at his feet; he foamed. raved, and
ripped and tore-stamped. rolled kicked
and roared. AT last, seizing battering
ram by the horns, he made furious nusH ,
at the guilty pair.
CHAPTER v.
Die y shrieked Gengulphus, as he !
sirled the fearful instrument above their
eads; but alas in its swift descent II
anne In contact with Baron de Boosey's
ipe, and glancing at right angles, Glove