The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-01-26
1Signs of admiration at this summary

IN this castle, lots OF it, rooms full of
it"
The boy Where did he sleep,
papa?"
"Oh, he slept in the upper room; he
had all the lower rooms too full with
grain-wheat, oats and all things like
that. And so all the people around
there-they had no grain to eat-had
nothing to eat at all and there were
starving, little boys and little girls, and
nothing at all to eat; they were awfully
hungry"
The girl, who has traveled-"W "Why
didn't they go to hotel, papa?"
They had no money"
The girl-''Do people need money in
hotel?"
"Well. l should say SC"
The girl-'Didyou have to pay for us
at hotel?"
Eyes, that's the reason I'm so poor
now.n
The boy-''Did you have to pay
money for me, papa?'
mo, [ guess they thought the bother
of having you around was enough. But
| anyhow, there weren't any hotels here
where these folks lived. There was no.
| body to come to hotels. When any,
body came around old Smith took their
| heads off and took all their money-a
! very rich man Smith was. So one day
when the sentry was on the wall
The girl-''Papa, what is sentryP'
"a man that walks up and down the
walls and sees if anybody's coming"
The girl-''If anybody came did he
take his head off?''
mo, Smith kept man for that
purpose, and so the sentry just told
Smith, and Smith told the man, and
! the man took the heads off. ;"
The boy-''D.d he keep the heads in
a room?"
''No, he just stuck them up on poles
around the walls there for ornament;
awful nice castle. He thought dozen
| heads were better than one.
$50 one day, when this sentry was
walking up and down on the walls,
what do you think he saw?'
''Both together-''A man?''
mo, sir, RATS; he saw rats SWIM
ming all down the river, thousands Of
rats, hundreds of thousands of rats.
Everywhere he looked there We're rats. y
The girl-''Did he have a trap,
papa?"
'.No; the whole castle was going to
be a trap pretty soon.''
The girl-'Did he get the rats in the
castle?''
mo, the rats got Smith
The boy-''Did they put him in the
trap, papaP"
s1No. tLo,o x,,oc,'+ o,,o,,ol Iof4 IS
him to put in trap when they got
through with Smith. They just climbed
over the wall, ate up the sentry, ate up
Smith and ate up the man that took
the heads off.
The girl-''I like Cinderella better
than this story"
The boy-"Oh, papa, tell us Cinder-
ella"
'.Now, see here, who's telling this
story? l have told you Cinderella
about one hundred times When YOU
subscribe for this paper you've got to
take the stories as they appear in it..
I'm not going to change the story
around to suit the caprice of the sub
scribers, more especially when they
don't pay their subscriptions in ad-
vance.
The girl-"Well, papa, what did the
rats do?'
80, I'm not going to tell this story
now. To be continued in our next.
I'm not going to tell story and have
it criticised like this the moment | get
into the most interesting part
Both-"O, papa, what did the rats
doP"
81 told you once what they did On,
if you only knew the end of this story
you'd be astonished; but no, won't
tell it"
The girl-'Does mamma know this
story?"
mo. she doesn't; I've got a
monopoly on this story.
The girl slips 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 locked?"
otis uON SCC AIClOs J Ott 'LOlilioCd HOi
to speak until got through. This
story's finished again; won't say an
other word of it. I"
The boy-"Wasn there a giant in
the castle, papa?"
''Oh, if you want any more informa-
ton about this you'll have to advertise
for it; this paper has suspended publ
cation"
The girl-'.Well, if baby keeps quiet
l won't speak another single word. y
"Well, the rats went through thai
castle, up stairs, down stairs
The boy-"And in my lady's cham
ber?"
The girl-''Now, baby, why dom
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 mor'r
me-"
The girl-'.No, amt"
The boy" 'es 'ou are"
The girl-No, amt
II think if you knew what the rat:
were going to do next you wouldn't
talk SO much.
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