Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-04
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ids, you see, mortared witd curren-
Jelly, too! Here are the steps; what
are they like?" 49,.
Marble cake, if I'm, beggar!,
Precisely and the hall floor, and
the grand staircase, the balusters
arc - ....f.+
Barley candyo
Right. Here you young rascal,no
sliding down them balusters! Now,
this here dinningroom, what it pan
nelled with ?
.Plum- cake, o, my eyes! and hung
with frosting" .-... -.- -, f..
And so they went on, from room
to room, only to find each more
tempting than it's neighbor with
ceilings of stucco work in .confec-
tionary, while the doors were blocks
of frozen pudding, with hinges of
jujube paste, Gibralters for knobs
But the windows were the wonder Of
the place. If you remember those
in Aladdin's Palace, you can have
some conception of these, only where
the frame work Of those was gold
and gems, that of these were all sorts
of delicious bits Of candies and sug
ared fruits, Enthusiastically arranged to
lock like a mosaic of flowers, while
the panes were rock candy, as clear
as crystal.
Il should like to send a ball
through one of 'em,' quoth Jack,
whose mouth was beginning to wa
ter sorely, for the poor little chap
was growing tired of seeing so much
and tasting so little; of looking into
the castle moat, full Of sherbet and
floating island at the floors inlaid
with gold and silver cake; at the
cornices of doughnuts; at the tap
estry of fig-paste, embroidered with
lunches of real grapes and pome-
granates. L say, when is the feast
going to begin? I'm hungry
| Hungry here laughed the Fool !;
swho would believe such a thing
Haven't you been feasting for the
last hour? It's a feast of the eye,
you ninny This castle was built in
order to prove the theory that one
could be fed through the eye as well
as through the mouth
% bother,' returned Jack, 4
wouldn't have come so far for that !;
its the only kind of feast l have
regular. 1 graduate at the bakery
every day, and go through the nor
NAL course at the confectioner's. II
that's all, I'm off,
No you don't, answered the Fool
catchingJack by the hair Of his head,
opening a trap door in the door,and
pushing him down.
1t seemed to Jack that he fell for
two hours. He began to think he
was never going to light, when sud
denly he found himself in the castle
donjon.
we have needed an apprentice,
said the Fool, reappearing, 'to stone
the raisins, beat the eggs, and press
the fruits. The draw bridge wants
repairing, ,and the castle wants shing
ling; it leaks, and
I'm q capital workman in thai
kind Of TIMBER said Jack; you'll
see.'
And then the Fool put out the
lights, and went to bed between two
sheets and gingerbread.
sOne can eat in the dark quite as
!, WE'LL thought Jack; I've tried il
and what has been done can be done
again ; and with that he took a bite
) into the foundation of sandwiches
IF l don't finish this piece of work
before morning, it'll be because my
appetite fails me; and I've never
had reason to complain of 1t yet,' he
continued. 'Hullo here's daylight
: or rather starlight! Guess l shan
be hungry again for month.
; can eat the pastry-cook's window
: after this, and-Hullo, here we are
For Jack had his head through thu
castle side, ,when--after all his pains
after eating through three feet o
!; sandwiches and jelly-was tina
Goosebery Fool standing over him
or--blessed relief-was. it a police
man? ....
Get up here said the latter
: Your mother will be looking fo
YOU
: Sandwiches andGoosberry Fool
muttered Jack, rubbing his eyes ant
staring about him.
You've been looking into Cope
u lands windows, hey? Come driv
onv .
% where have I been %
To the land of Nod. reckon
He rubbed his eyes ten times har
der than before, but not a crumb o
IL Sweetmeat Castle was to be seen.
where's the Castle ?'he persisted
e I guess you left it behind, There
drive on,' said the expasperatcd of
=. ficer. And as there was nothing il
view but the lonely common. th
/ rustling trees, and twinkiing lights
e Jack decided to follow his advice
= and walked up to a brown ston
0 front. laid himself in the doorwa.
and finished his nap.-Ma1y Pres
!, cot in Our Boys and Girls.
AT SEA:
= From ''Innocents Abroad'
BY some happy fortune 1 was no
: seasick. That was a thing to b
ri ,,ro,,l hoI MT 81 ocooro