The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-03-16

I loved him, I wished to curry favor
with his relatives. Yet I wept.
"They have fried him. said the
King. .sAlas, poor Galtier. How.
ever, LET US cheer up, let us be con.
tent. But I viii have my cook for
breakfast for this-and / viii fry him,
and see how he likes it. There is moth
ing like q sharp example; ( to teach o
man, not friend. But don't be idle,
sir-,ake some more fried Frenchman.
1 ought to be ashland to offery you such
a dish, but you see how / am situat-
ed. lie ought to have been baked
This fellow ought. We always bake
a Frenchman-we never think of iry.
ing him. Butt wish you had known
this fellow-so Kind, so gentle, so Low.
ing, and you see yourself how tender
he il. But that Williams business
wish you world straighten that up for
me when YOU go back to America. If
your people, could only know the facts
in the case, they would not blame me.
It isia little bard, after Ihave spent all
these years. in building up a good
name, to have it all knocked in the
head by-this shabby adventures. Now,
what he called a hideous reyel,' and a
feast of DEVILS and all sorts of vile
and wicked names, wasnnothing
in the world, I give you my spcred
honor, but 4 simple barbecue-seven-
teen old crippled natives, no account
under the sun, just an expense to the
community, anil I fricasced them to
give a little treat to some visiting
town chiefs (Aldermen you call them
in your country, who were here for
q day or two from Wobga Island.
Feast of devils, indeedI Feast of
dried up, skinny old r~apscallions that
the island is q thousand times better
off without, and I am.sure it was hon
orabIe in y to be hospitable TO those
strangers, Though between you and
me it was an awful swiudle on them
though, oh, don't mention it y more
cholera morbus and indigestion and
general suffering among those chiefs,
you never saw the like of it in pour
life Now, Twain, you see how much
trutirthere was in Williams statements,
all that row about nothing. You can
set this thing right in your country, you
can do it easy-simply just explain
the facts-and anything / can do for
you, I'll do i-you al depend on
me. Send me O copy Of your weekly. |
1 can't read it. but a little literature
can't burt q man, anyhow. CAESARS
ghost |" |
"Oh Heavens! what is the matter, !
your Gracious Majestyf"
r. "Oh, misery, Oh, murder, Oh, des-
peration q" |
: "Oh ,rhat is it, Your Impcris1 Ma
jesty IL beseech youi"
He had sprung to his feet. and his
fixed eyes were staring wildly at the
fried meat before him.
g .Oh my brain reels! This hair n
Frenchman's hair? There mast be
mistake! A horrid suspicion
bursts ufon mel Ah, what ia this II
sec z-tliis thfHgzthis a cursing
II Strawberry on the LETT G,ml
it is, my long lost brother!"
Alis, it was even So 1t was his
mOther-What WAS left of
rim. Poor, pour fellow, he was only
it to be shorcIed into a basket and
given TO the poor. now. The E9gf
do IN inscnsiblc. He grew worSAz
and worse, and the next day his r
IL the country was ordercTH
Many sympathizing relatives u
followed the Dalanquin and dA E
what they could to alleviate tile 81
of their unhappy sovereign. #
It turned out afterward that 6 :
iweet-heart of the Frenehman hPros
made a surrcptitions exchange of
in the Kings kitchen be-
ore daylight on the fatal day. She
md bought the Kings brother from
wandering tribe that belongedIn the
,reat wilderness at the other end of
he island She bought him purpose
y to. make that exchange, though Of
she did not know whe he was.
The girl and the Frenchman escaped
the island in a that very
light, and were happily married, Tor
lrowned, / don't know which. III
would have liked TO taste that French
nan. hl ''f '"
sNoTH. This is the process really fol-
owed in all the South Pacific Isiands--
lark TWAIN. Il 1871 t3 I.