Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-01-07
DISCOVERY OF ICE CREAM.
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country was such grand king that he
wore ms gold crown even ut night.
though it made the worst kind of night.
cap. The wise men of Lactia said the
crown must never come off, and it was
these wise men and the prince who for
med a conspiracy against the king, en-
ding in the discovery of ice cream.
But the king lived well, growing fat
and jolly, until his son, the prince be :
came unruly. Then the king grew so
thin that he had to use piece of pa
per doubled up inside of his crown to
prevent il from slipping down over his
nose.
The wise men said I'VE II make n
plan 10 reform this prince but during
the next three years they did nothing
but talk, talk. talk. One day the very
royal candlesnufter brought them this
note
fourplan or your heads,
KING JOIN.
They sent back word to the king to
please make the prince chief high
director of the weather. The change
that followed was marvellous. The
prince suited everyone. He made it
clear and sunny for picnic party,
windy in the right direction for the
saieors, just right for the farmers, cold
for the furdealers, and hot for the
bathing resort 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 march
ed and hurrahed every wink of sleep
from their pillows. The wise men pray
ed the king to sent the people home,
and when he refused fifty Of the wisest
ran away to sea, but the others formed
a conspiracy.
The king strawberries grew between
the palace and the royal milk-house,
and 1t 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 so with them and eat berries
with sugar and cream in the royal
milk-house. While sugaring the berries
they heard the king come into the
garden.
" lm afraid those robbins have been
eating my berries again. they presen-
tly heard him remark
-. Inc prince paused. pale with fright.
The wise men rushed up and down,
shaking with terror
Into the - cream --with-themw
chartered the prince, and into can of
cream the berries were dropped, sugar
and all, the lid clapped on the can,
and the prince OH 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 sound asleep in the corners.
The king strolled in the garden long
after the princes office hour. It ap-
pears that the prince had used "
the good weather, and mad accumulated
such store Of i'll winds, cold snaps,
and great storms rs was never know
before. The chief high director non
appearing, the commotion that began
made all the old people hunt for their
almanacs i'll 4 hurry. The wind blew
over chlmneys and bent high stceples
out of shape. And how it showed and
hailed and rained and made the people
wish there hadn't been any chief high
director. The wind twitchcd the kings
crown over the high fence and, III two
seconds, him after it, and it rolled across
the fields ten miles before he caught
It, The roof of the royal milk house
flew over the palace, and the badly
frightened prince and wise mon tum-
BILE out. The wind tossed the cans in
to the road, and sent them spinning
away through the storm like silver
wheels. The wise man were lost, and
We're supposed to have blown to II
deserted island.
The king returned with his crown
just as honest farmer drove up to the
palace in his sleigh with IL cream can
he had found in n snow drift. The king
carelessly took off the lid. and then
staggered back screaming and tremb-
ling-the can was filled with some
thick stuff, such rs never
before had been seem
" Seize him. said the king, he
wants to poison mel" and the whole
court rushed out to protect the king.
Make him eat of il or of goes his
headl' said the king
They expected to see the farmer
drop dead; but no! he spooncd out the
stuff rs fast rs possible At last the
prince ventured to taste, and the far
mer couldn't get the spoon back. AS
soon as the king tasted, he created the
farmer \ duke on the spot, order a
guns to be fired, and promoted
the prince to he king, as he himself
wished to open mn icc-cream saloon at
one end Of the palace. The ex-king
died very wealthy While he hired
Ill the poor people Of Lactia to spread
fine ice upon the palace hill, and roll
his cans of cream down to freeze II
was not until after his death that it
wnS allowed that ice cream could lie
made in any other way.