Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-15
AN OYSTER YARN.

never found anything but once here in
excess OF my expectations. or even an
preaching them, and that was the New
York oysters. l had then lust come from
California, where oysters are very small
and unlmportant, not to say insignificant.
and l had often eaten hundred there at
time, and had always felt that could
eat more II l had them. So when | ar
rived at the Metropolitan Hotel ordered
my dinner to be served in my room, and
told the waiter to bring with my dinner
strong cup of coffee and hundred raw
oysters. He looked at me a moment and
then said
odd understand you to say hundred
oysters ?"
Yes" I answered "raw, on the half
she'll, with vinegar DO lemons, and az
soon as you can, for am very hungry"
Ahem miss, do you want hun
bred ?"
Yes, do. What are you waiting fors
Must pay you in advance? 1 want nice
large ones"
'No, no. mics. All right, you shall
have them, and he went out. l continued
my writing ard forgot all about my dinner
till he knocked and came in with dinner o..
a tray, but no oysters"
How is this }" said 1. "There are no
oysters"
"Dey's comm, Miss, dey's COMM" and
the door opened and in fled three more
sons OF Aries burning sands, each with a
big tray of oysters on the half shell. I
was staggered, but only for moment, for
| saw tie walters were gripning, so | calmly
directed them to place one tray on chair,
one on the washstand and one on the bed,
and said:
They are very small, aren't they ?"
On no, Miss, de berry largest we've
got"
Very WELL, said ], "you can go. Ill
want any more I'll ring"
When they got out in the hall one said
to the other:
Fore God, 10, if abe eats all them oys.
ters she's dead woman"
l did not feel hungry any longer. I
drank my coffee and looked at the oysters,
every one of them as big as my hand, and
they all seemed looking at me with their
horrible white faces, and out of their one
diabolical eye, until could not have eaten
one any more than could have carved mp
live baby. They leered at me and seemed
to dare me to attack them. Our California
oysters are small, and with no more indi-
vidual character about them than grains
of rice, bat these detessable creatures were
instinct with evil intentions, and | dared
not swallow one for fear of the disturbance
he might raise in my interior, SO l set about
getting rid of them, for | was never going
to give mp beaten before those walters.
l hung my dress over the key. hole after I
locked the door, and just outside my win
dow found tiE water.spout that had
small hole in it, l carefully enlarged it,
and then slid every one of those beassly
creatures down one by one-one hundred
and two of theni-they all the time eyeiug
me with that cold, pasty look of maliguity.
When the last one was out of sight I
stopped trembling, and finished my dinner
in peace, and then rang for the walters.
You should have seen their faces One of
the waters asked if / would have some
more. May he never know the internal
pang he inflicted upon me, but replied,
calmly
Not now. 1 think too many at once
might be hurtful"
HOW A CAT INTERVIEWED THg BEES.
Charles Kaiser. who has the only hive of
bees in town, says that when he first got
his swarm his old cat s curiosity was much
excited in regard to the 8eIngs OF the little
insects, the like of which sissN bad never
before seen. At first she watched their
comings and goings at a distance. She
then fattened herself upon the ground and
crept along toward the hive, with tail hori-
zontal and quivering. 1t was clearly evi.
dent that she thought the bees were some
new kind of game. Finally she took up a
position at the entrance to the hive, and
when bee came in or started out made a
dab at it with her paws. This went on for
time without attracting the special atten-
ton of the inhabitants Of the hive. Pre-.
sently, however, cod Tabby" struck and
crushed bee on the edge OF the opening
leading to the hive. The smell of the
crushed bee alarmed and enrsged the
whole swarm. Bees by the score poured
forth and darted into the fur of the
astonished cat. Tabby rolled herself
in the grass, splitting, sputtering,
biting, clawing and squailing as cat never
squalled before. She appeared mere ball
of fur and bees as she rolled and tumbled
about. She was at length hauled away
from the hive with q garden rake, at the
cost Of several severe stings to her rescaer.
Even after she had been taken to distant
part of the grounds the bees stuck in
Tabby's fur, and about once in two minutes
she would utter an unearthly "yowl" and
bounce full yard il the air. On coming
down she would try to scratch an ear,
when a sting on the back would cause her
to turn a succession Of back somersaults
and give vent to running fire of squalls,
Like the parrot that was left alone with
the monkey, old TaDby had a dreadful
time. Two or three days after this ad.
venture. Tabby was caught by her owner,
who took her by the neck and thrtw her
down near the beehive. No sooner did
she strike the ground than she gave ire.
mendous leap to the top of high fence,
and vanished. Henceforth she Will not
NEEDLE with the little busy bee" that
improves each shining hour"