Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-13

rushing, flying and fiuttering, creeping
and crawling, growing and humming,
chirping and quacking AZ there was
about the ark. At the entrance door
stood Noah. "Come in, come in, be it
elephant or worm, for aught | care; only
be not unmannerly about it. Two ty
two, always, man and wife, enter ye to-
gether."
Noah's throe sons had their hands
full in assigning each to q proper
place, according to rank and merit.
And now there came slowly, sneaking
along, being half cat, half man, OF
color green and yellow. paws soft and
smooth as velvet. and q face wreathed
in perpetual smiles, whose sweetness
savored of treacle.
"Oh, dearest Mr.. Noah! Angel should
thy name be! How indescribably hap
by do feel at the prospect Of spending
q year in the midst of your charming
family. Ipray you. assign me q nice,
comfortable little spot in your ark; and
if it be not asking too much, l would
request you to make it as near as pos
sible to the cat or man, for these are
my bosom friends, but I must entreat
that it be not in the vicinity OF the
"And who may you be? II my mem-
DRY deceive me not. / have seen you be-
FORE"
II am Duplioity. Oh, hasten to let
me in before the flood comes and
washes me way"
81 am extremely sorry, but :.
"Ah, ha! You have seen me bot0re!'
ssOh, you foolish creaturel l will not
have you in here at all; neither next to
man nor cat will lodge your
Wherefore not?"
because admit no single being
only two by woman and wife can On
ter herev'
Sadly Duplicity turned back. She
had not gone far before she met Fraud:
whittier art thou going, my friendr'
"rhou questionest that?-KnOwest
thou not the food is coming? 1t 10 "a
Noah that ! am hastening!'
"My dear friend. thou R0est on q fools
errand; no single being Raineth en-
trance TO the ark-only two BY two
man and wife; aye admitted"
THAT is bad
"Hist! hist! / have it." cried Deplic
ity, "let Us 60 together TO the ark, arm
in arm, thou my husband, thy wife,
And they arrived at the ark, and pre-
sented themselves before Noah a
| man and wife, and they were par
| mittod to enter. Thus did Duplicity
| and Fraud survive the food. Fraue
had tried with the assistance OF Du.
| plicity to get in seven more pairs o
their kind, but fortunately they could
not show mp that mark of . clear
breast, eleven hoofs, for "the lie i
| without foot" and % it remained will
that one pair. Aud what mischief diS
they not perpetrate in the ark! No
thing was safe from their device. Du
plicity fattered, and Fraud stored ava!
the fruits Of the fiattery. They pluoks(
the goose, BY them the sheep YER
shorn. and the hens swindled out o
their eggs; they even managed to tall
an ivory tooth ont Of the elephant, and
to talk a wooden ono into him again
And Madame Noah! What they dia
not wheedle her ont Of would be harv
TO say. The raven alone, no novice il
thieforaft, was too shreWd to leave hi
possessions and fly away into the dis
sanoe to investigate the state Of tn
earth, whether or not II was RetttnI
4 dry, 30 the innocent and unSuspectin,
dove flew away on this mission.
The clever pair had amassed . MO
little fortune in spite OF the hard time
in the ark!
"Oh, my darling husband! how VII
Hatred and Malice, Anger and Chul
lishness, Envy and Discomfort, coar1
Theft and Disgrace, and all the ret O
our relatives who leave the Ark Wit
Us, be astonished! Awestruck will the
be, and look upon M - superior b
ines when they behold our riches, An
see under what brilliant auspices y
leave the Ark"
The hour arrived for the exodus
take place. Some, dearest Fraud, =
me take thy arm. Nov will we ente
upon new exiatence. and right royal
will We live henoef0rth II the enjOymeu
Of our princely fortune. Oh, hOv happ
will We be, thou and l. thy wife"
So spake Duplicity, in d0ve-ike q
dences, looking With . proud elanos 9
affection mp TO Fraud, Who, laden Wit
his spoils, with difficulty made his ~
out Of the Ark.
Answered Fraud: "Jhou! And VIA
conoernest thou mes Our princely fol
tune, indeed! Not . feather, not .
eeg, mot . thread shalt thou have Of N
acquisitions"
sAm I, then. not your wife?"
mo, Defvauded thou aTtF
"And vas it not With my assistAnc
that thou didst acquire this foTtune5"
| "rhat il vas-oshsrwiss II would nc
be Fraud. dispute mot that thou d
lmandest ought but thy right but Il
were to act rightly by theo ] voald nc
b what am-Rfaud."
| GresneR and believer than befoce, di
Duplicity snsAk out Of the axk, oontiu
uin0 her career on earth. Always Oh
was the defraudsd one, and invAyiAbe
che came 10 grief in the end.