Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-04-20
From the Bungtown Star Of Freedom.
BOBTAIL'S GREAT PRIZE STORY.
THE DOOMED MONARCH; OR
FRIEND GOLDFISH.
ny r. X. BoBTAL.
CHAPTER I.
ny f. X. BoBTAIL.

IL was night, nowhere nnd nowhere was rs ohrk
as bottle Of ink in barrel of pitch at the bottom
of well, and forty-four thousand times darker
than the concentrated darkness Of fory-four thous
and midnights, when upon a throne of petri6ed
turtle soup stoop the mighty GcLgulphus, monarch
of the Fe ri Fo Fun Islands eating slice Of but
tered beeswax, occasionally wetting his lips by
drinking fudical wrought iron sheet anchors, fuke
foremost.
Around him stood eighty-two thousand nine
hundred and eighty-seven and half courtiers.
Bring forth the whangdoodle and place it on the
hegagi exclaimed he in a terrific voice, at the
same time cutting off a courter's head with the
sharp edge of an illuminated cotton bale.
CHAPTER II.
The whangdoodle was placed upon the hegag-
but before we go further let take glance at the
political state of America at the date our story
opens. We were involved in a war with Mexico
and General Scott was carrying victorious flag
through the halls of Monte-losers. General Wash
ington, commanding the home army, had formed a
junction with Christopher Columbus at Nauvoo
and defeated the combined forces of England, in
sanguinary retreat Baggvie heights. John G..
Fremont, President of the United States, had ap-
pointed James Buchanan governor of Cape Cod !
and Napoleon Bonsparte, Mayor of Bunker Hill as
sisted by Lieutenant General Burney o. Twigger,
of Ireland was preparing for descent upon the
tories at Cerro Gordo whilst DR.. Jane, U. S. Sur
geon, was constructing strong fort at Cairo armed
with a stomach pump and one hundred bottles of
his Carminative Basam.
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.
CHAPTER III.
The whangdoodle was placed upon the hegag.-
DiSmoy and sat un the Of the
nobility. Lord de Moza nvoluntarily clutched
Price Blowards coat TAIL and the Countess of Fiz-
fun disappeared Historically within her hoops
whilst both Count de Scratch hitherto the hravest
of the brave, threw himself at the foot Of the throne
and elevated one leg, in the air signal of dis
tress. But the mighty Gengulphus was unmovcd.
Drawing golden wire safety fuse from his bosom,
he was in the of attaching it to the whangdoodIe
when--0h horror of horrors he beheld in one
corner of the room his beloved Silleh locked in the
arms of Fee ii lie Swosh Bosky, Envoy Extraor-
binary from the Lobos Islands.
CHATTER ".
To say that Gengulphus was angry would be but
an indifferent statement Of the truth. He was in
range; he couldn't contain himself, and conse-
quently boiled in torrents that formed puddles
of wrath at his feet; he foamed, raved and ripped
and tore-stamped, rolled, kicked and reared. At
last, seizing batterng ram by the horns, he made
furious push AT INC guilty pair
CHAPTER V.
'Diel shrieked Gengulphus, he twrled the
fearful instrument above their heads, but alas in
its swift decent it in contact with Baron de
Booscys pipe, and glancing at right angles Glove
asunder the massive door leading TO the Royal
Managcrie birthstone and torpedocs thundered
Gengulphus but he too late. Ere he could
again raise the huge weapon fierce demoncal
howl ran through the rooms and next moment an
infuriated grizzly Goldfish ran madly forth from
the demolished door and buried its deadly fangs in
the seat of the mighty Gengulphus ineXpressbles
Tie uttered a sharp cry of pam--made desperate
sGort to shake Of the monster-and then fell to
the floor as dead as a June bug in January.
CHAPTER VI.
But little more remains to be told Shilleh soon
after the death of Genguphus stabbed herself with
a bed wrench and her paramour, Fe ii lie Swosh
Bosky, buried himself in pipe of porter, heels up.
The Countess Fizfum eloped with an Egyptian
mummy, in good state of preservation, and the
Count de Scratch, having lost the whole of his fortune
in playing Simon.s says wig wag, with Lord de
Morno he was forced to emgrate West, where he
enlisted as an orderly sergept to lime kiln, and
was shortly afterwards killed by the bursting of a
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