Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-14

door flew open, disclosing the state cham
Der, the finest room in the house.
Mimi, who had all the curiosity of hel
species, rushed in to examine the room
She carried the dripping brush in hel
right paw, and found, to her horror, that
these walls were not painted. They were
hung with white tapestry, the floor was
covered with white mating, white cur
tains were at the windows. This will
never do! In ten minutes, thanks to Mi
mis- artistic taste and skill, and the bill
berry syrup, the snowy whiteness of the
dainty guest-chamber had taken ON the
hue Of night and Erebus. e.
A white parrot with yellow crest,
who protested loudly against the sacri-
lege, was quickly silenced. Mimi poured
jar Of bilberries over him, aud threat
cned by pantomime he well understood
to wiring his neck ifhe did not keep quiet.
.Schuft took no part in Minis art decora-
ton; he was asleep on the high posted
bed that stood in the shaded alcove. Mi
mi, still clutching the brush in her fore
paw, lay down on the beautiful counter
pane at his side.
Hermann and his son passed the night
in hay-loft, and dreamed of their lost
comrades. The subject of Schuft's and
Minis dreams we shall nevel know; they
were, perhaps of dusky forms rising from
sable biiberry jars, of screeching cocka-
toos with black feathers, ofhearth brush
es endowed with life stalking about on
demonlac errands.
Morning dawned; the ape and the
poodle awoke refreshed from their slum-
bers. SchufJ gazed in terror at the Sty-
gian blackness around HIM, but Mimi
smiled complacently on her work, and
busted herself about other matters. She
had slept royalty; she wondered what
made the bed so soft; she must find out
She therefore made rest in the mattress
and drew out a pawful Of downy feathers.
It was showing outside-the first fall of
snow this season, the first Mimi had ever
seen. "Ah, ali! I can make it look IN
here Just as it does out there" she said
to herself.
She threw the pawful of feathers IN the
air. The effect was charming; even
Schuft lifted his head to wonder and adj
mire. The feather-bed was soon robbed
of half its contents, and the air within
was as heavy with snowy flakes as the air
without.
Shut now entered into the sport, and
the fun began in earnest. He rushed in
Wild bounds after Mimi over tables,
chairs and bureau, and threw a costly
clock from the mantle. Mimi in scam
pering over the keys Of the piano was so
enchanted with the dulcet notes that she
went to playing with four hands like a
true member of the quadrumana family.
Never had such accOrds been heard be-
fore this indeed was Wagner music Of
the future. The feathers Whirled Justify
through the'air. Schuft danced a schot-
tische in bilberry juice, the parott
SCREENED at the top OF his voice, and the
landlady, summoned by the frightful
uproar, entered the room.
The scene was one worthy of a comic
painter, but the landlady failed to see
the comic aspect; she gave one piercing
shrek and then swooned quite away.
The landlord now appeared. He was
first dumb with horror. Wren speech
returned to him he shook his fist wrath
fully at the two culprits, and declared
t. at he would make short work Of them
If the twenty thalers we're not at stake.
He then seized them by the neck and
thrust them into the cellar.
How gloomy it was; cold, wet earth
floor, darkness that could be felt all
around! Howls and walls avalled no.
thing. The two prisoners seated them
selves on an old barrel and bemoaned
their tate in silence. The landlord soon
entered, bearing an empty pitcher and
some bread and water for the fclons.
He filled his pitcher from wine cask
and went on his way. Minis eyes had
grown somewhat used to the darkness of
TIE cellar; she watched the landlord in
tently while he drew the wine. As soon
as he was out of sight, she stole up to the
cask, licked some drops from the spigot.
and found that they tasted good. She
remembered that the landlord had turned
the spigot, and she followed his example.
The precious, golden-hued Muscatel
gushed forth in generous streams.
How much better this tasted that in
sipid water! Schuft now came up and the
two RECALLED themselves like pair Of old
topers, and soon became hilarously
drunk. The Muscatel had all run out;
Mimi tried another cask; it was not
sweet enough; still another, it was Cog
nae, and had too pungent a flavor; the
fourth cask, Nordhous, she did not like;
she wanted sweet wine and no other.
She therefore ran about and turned all
the faucets, and in torrent, like the rush
Of mighty waters, streamed fourth white
wine and red, Norhous, CogAac, rum,
molasses, train Oil and petroleum. The
cellar was flooded, Schuft and Mimi sat
like Noah amid the deluge, their ark of
safety being a hogshead, that foat.!d
serenely on the face Of the waters.
The hogshead, which was an old one, be-
gun to fill; th.y must swim or drown.
So they swan; that is Schult swan and
Mimi rode. In this way they reached
the cellar stairs; the upper step was not
submerged, and here they sat dripping,
freezing and trembling to await their
doom.
The cellar had grown strangely silent
the rushing and roaring of the unfettered
liquors had ceased, the casks tioated
noiselessly on their former contents.
A football was heard. Sharper was COM
ing with his empty pitcher. The key
turned IN the lock; the two evil-doers
quaked for fear.
The door opened, and schuft made a
bold spring for his life, jumping between
the landlords legs with such violence as
to cause him to lose his footing and fall
down the stairs. There he lay prone on
the flooded cellar floor, while Schuft and
Mimi made good their escape.
The dog with the ape on his back
rushed wildly through the town, needless
of the barking of other CANNES and the
icers OF the street gamins who followed