Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-10-04
aglonah's Column,
THE DISCOVERY OF
ICE-CREAM.

1t was in Lactia, and the king of the
country was such grand king that he
wore his gold crown even at night,
though it made the worst kind of a
night-cap. The wise men of Lactia said
the crown must never come off, and it
was these wise men and the prince who
formed a conspiracy against the king,
ending in the discovery of ice-cream.
But the king lived we'll, growing fat and
jolly, until his son, the prince. became
unruly. Then the king grew so thin
that he had to use piece of paper
doubled up inside his crown to prevent
it from slipping down over his nose.
The wise men said, "We'll make a
plan to reform the PRINCE" but during
the next three years they did nothing
but talk, talk, talk. One day the Very
Royal Candle-Snuffer brought them this
note;
"YOur plan or your heads! KING JOHN"
They sent back word to the King to
please make the prince chief high direc-
tor of the weather. The change that
followed was marvellous. The prince
suited every one. He made it clear and
sunny for picnic party, windy in the
right direction for the sailors, just right
for the farmers, cold for the fur dealers
and hot for the bathing-rcsort men. The
people of Lactia went almost wild with
Joy, and the king laughed and grew fat
again. The wise men claimed all the
merit, but they soon regretted doing so
Thousands of Lactians came to thank
them in long dry speeches. and brass
bands brayed before their houses all
day. while nightly professions marched
and hurrahed every wink of sleep from
their pillows. The wise men prayed
the king to send his people home, and
when he refused, fifty of the wisest ran
away to sea but the others formed a
conspiracy.
The kings Strawberries grew between
the palace and the royal milk house,
and it was double high treason for any
one but the king to pick them. One
morning before the weather Office was
open, the wise men persuaded the prince
to 90 vito them and eat berries with
sugar and cream in the royal milk-houst
While sugaring the berries they heard
the king come into the garden.
I'm afraid those robins have beer
eating my berries again !' they pres
emily heard him remark.
The prince paused, pale with fright
The wise men rushed up and down
shaking with terror.
Unto the cream with them T. chat
tered the prince; and into can o
cream the berries were dropped. sugar
and all. the lid clapped on the can, ant
the prince on the top of that Six Of
the strongest of the wise men PLACED
their backs to the royal milk-house door
and the others soon appeared to be soun'
aslerp in the corners.
The king strolled in the garden lonl
past the princes office hour. 1t appear
thai the prince had used only the goo'
weather, and had accumulated such
store of ill-winds, cold snaps and grea
storms as was never known before. Th
chief high director lot appearing. tn
commotion that began made all the oil
!. people hunt for their glasses and altman
acs in a hurry. The wind blew owe
chimneys and bent high steeples gu
of shape. And how it showed an
hailed and rained and made the peopl
wish there WASH tany chief high directo
of the weather The wind twitche
the kings crown over the high fenc
and, in two seconds, him after it; an
it rolled across the fields ten miles be
fore he caught it The roof of the roya
milk-house flew over the palace, and th
badly-frightened prince and wise me
,, tumbled out The wind tossed the car
r into the road, and sent them spinnin
; away through the storm like silve
e wheels. The wise men were lost, an
5 were supposed to have been blown to
: deserted island.
The king returned with his crow
just as an honest farmer drove up
q the palace in his sleigh with creal
can he had found in snow drift. Tn
q king carelessly took off the lid, an
then staggered back screaming an
rembling-the can was filled with SON
+ pink-colored thick stuff, such as nevt
!. before had been seen
" "Seize him." said the king. she wan
J. to poison me !" ard the whole cou
!; rushed out to protect the king.
y MAKE him eat it or off goes b
n head !" says the king.
They expected to see the farmer Dire
dead but, no he spooned out the stu
s as fast as possible. At last the prime
: ventured to taste, and the farmer coul
not get the spoon back. AS soon
the king tasted, he created the farmer
9. duke on the spot; ordered hundre
4 guns to be fired; and promoted ii
:, 5 prince to be king. as he himself wlsht
" to open an ice-cream saloon at one Ell
% of the palace. The ex-king died vel
wealthy. While he lived he hired a
the poor people of Lactia to spread fiji
e ice upon the palace hill. and roll b
!: cans of cream down to freeze. 1t W
e not until after his death that it W
allowed that ice-cream could be MAJ
any other way.-JanaeS. b. Marsha