Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-13
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IL man tll' walks up and 'inW II the
walls and see, if any body : com ng.
The girl IF anybody cam Il d he
take hi> head ol2'
No. Smith kept man for that
purpose and :" the sentry just told
Smith, and Smith It'd the man, and
the III N took the heads OFT.
Tn" loy-''D d he keep the heads in
a ROOM"
"No. he just stuck them up on poles
around the walls ,h"rt for ornament;
awful nee castle. He thought dozen
heads Were bet er than one.
$50 one day. when this sentry was
walking up and down oa the walls,
what do YOU think h. Saw?'
''Both towethcr-''A man?"
NO, sir. RATS; he saw rats SWIM
ming all dosn Il The river. thousand, of
rat, hundred, of thousands of rats.
+, e:ywhr!e he Looked there We're rats. "
The girl Did he have trap,
papa:?'
$40; the whole castle was going to
be trap pretty soon.
The girl did he get the rats in the
castl,.o''
mo. the rats got Smith"
The boy Did they put him in the
trap, papt?"
mo; there wasn't enough left OF
him to put in Il trap when they got
through with Smith. They Just climbed
over he wall. ate up the sentry, ate up
Smith and ate up the man that took
the heads OIL
The grl Il like Cinderella better
than this Story
The boy-''Oh, papa. tell us Cinder-
ella"
Now. see here. who's telling this
story? have told you Cinderella
aboih one hundred times. When you
subscribe for this paper you've got to
take the store Is they appear in it.
I'm not going to change the story
around to suit the caprice of the sub
scr,bcrs, more especially when they
don't pay their subscriptions in ad-
vance,
The grl-''Well, papa, what did the
rat, dO?'
80. I'm not going TO tell this story
now. To be continued in our next.
I'm not goirg g to tell 4 story and have
it criticised l.he TN ) the moment | get
into the most int resting part.
Both-"O. papa, what did the rats
do?"
IL told YOU once what they did. On.
if you only knew the end of this story
you'd be astonishcd; but no, | wont t
tell it,"
The girl-''Docs mamma know this
story?"
mo. she doesn't; I've got a
monopoly on this story"
The girl 81 ps her arm around the
back OF the chair. gets her cheek up
close to mine. and puts the other hand
around until it meets the first. and says
softly:
"Please. papa. tell us about the
rats?"
"Well. the rats ate up all the grain"
The girl How did they get in the
room. papa? Wasn't the door lockcd?"
''Oh. now see here; you promised not
to speak until l got through. This
story's finished again; won't say an
other word Of it,
The boy. Wasn't there a giant in
the castle. papa9'
''Oh, il you want anv more infOrma-
t on about this you'll have to advertise
for it; this paper has suspended publi-
cation"
The girl-.'Wcll. if baby keeps quiet
l won't speak another single word
'Well, the rats went through that
castle. up stairs, down stairs ~
The boy-''And in my lady's cham
ber?"
The girl-''Now. baby. why don't
you keep quiet? Papa won't tell this
story if you keep talking all the time.
Papa, make baby keep quiet"
The boy-"You're talking NOR n
me-"
The girl-'.No. amt"
The boy 'cs 'ou arc.'
The girl-NO, l amt
ii think if you knew what the rats
were going to do next you wouldn't t
talk so much"
Both-''Oh. what did they do?'
"Wcll. they ate up old Smith"
The girl -"Twicc?'
mo. l just wanted you to know that
the Baron and the rat' didn't agree.
suppose the Baron didn't agree with
the rats. for most of hem died next
day. and then the people got at the
grain
The girl-''Dd the little girls get
anything to eat?"
The boy. '.And the boy>?"
''Oh. they got all they wanted
then
The girl-"Wasn't they afraid of the
rats?'
mo, the rats were all gone up"
-"Gone up where, papa
"Well, | meant the rats were all
dead"
The girl-''What killed them. papa?'
"Oh. Indigestion; they ate too
much"
The mother -''Ch lLren. supper S
ready
There now. off you go clear out,
remember the fate of the rats. ."-Lukc
Sharp. in Detroit Free Press.