San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-01-28

-.,,- did not eat less than five times day
Anedee, however, wore a melancholy air.
Listen to me, doctor, he said at the
end Of the eighth day, i have bad news
for you. The stock OF prisoners is nearly
out and the kings chief minister. who
has been appointed my scullion, has given
me to understand that you must be cooked
and truffied.
80 In order to gain time | made him
understand by gestures that IL would be
best to first saturate you with truffies in
side, so that when killed and cooked you
would have q fine trufiiy flavor. got two
weeks time in which to prepare you, and
during that time you will have the conso-
lation of stuffing yourself with truffies
and filling yourself with sauce
"IIe added in fearful voice, Il prom
Use you that no one but myself will have
any hand in cooking your"
The guests at this point were all atten-
ton, listening with knives and forks in
the air.
Although l was daily expecting this
news resumed the doctor, II was pros
trated when heard it, and the truffies
that Amedee served up TO me at every
meal only added to my CONSERVATION.
"They made me swallow enormous
quantities of them, cooked on cinders,
fricasseed, in cocoanut milk, in gravy and
so forth.
''The savages made the women dig
them out The women devoted them
selves to the work with enthusiasm, and
would have eaten them as fast as they
grubbed them from the soil were it not
that whenever they attempted TO devour
one they were brought to a sense Of duty
by a blow of a stout stick on the head.
al quickly lost flesh on this regimen. l
was racked with cramps in the stomach
and seized with such violent headache
that felt as If my brain were on fire.
"At the end Of two weeks my whole
body exhaled the odor Of truffies.
81 had evidently reached cooking point
zone evening the chief minister, who
had been assigned to help Amedee in the
kitchen, came to inspect me. While he
was smelling and smiling me happy
thought came to my mind.-the idea that
the savage could be induced to believe
that he was already as proficient as Anne
dee, and so might aspire to the role Of
chief cook.
II picked up a mushroom, and, point
ing to Amedee, who was lying asleep, l
tried to make the cannibal understand by
my gestures what an appetjzing dish that
excellent man, so plump and fat, would
make when served up in that delicious
sauce of his own invention.
1.-THE savage Immediately ran to the
kings hut, evidently surprised at not hav-
ing hit on that happy idea before.
1.-THE next morning was awakened by
loud fixing. 1t was Amedee who was
being fried by his former servant in o
mass of mushrooms.
~ could not help feeling overjoyed-
first, because my companion was no more
favored than myself; and, secondly, be-
cause / knew that the new cook would
respite me for while longer, as he had
his stock of prisoners renewed.
"But / was, not only respited-I was
savedr'
what saved3'' inquired the guests, all
speaking at once.
Eyes, miraculously saved! The sue
cessor Of Amedee, who, need hardly tell
You, was not an expert in the matter of
mushrooms, had fried my companion in a
poisonous species of that root. And So,
while the entire tribe were twisting and
writhing in the throes Of an indescribable
collie, l seized my opportunity and made
my escape to the shore.
'The Lessive, which had not been able
to wait for us before, had now come back
in search of us.
81 was sick for over year after my
escape, and ! have had an unspeakable
aversion TO trufties ever since. But as for
mushrooms, almost adore themn'
And the doctor then feelingly emptied
another glass of champagne in memory Of
his friend Amedee. TRANSLATED for the
New York World by J. c. Curtin from
the French of CASTOR Massey.