The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-19

''Ask your master to come here"
II. Favioi hurried up.
"Listen, pray" said N. jaime
N. Favioli endeavored to hold his breath
Of sudden two philandering cats set up a
casrwauling on the balcony.
II hear only two cats talking love to each
other" said 81. Favioh.
~ hear them, too" N. Jaime chimed in.
"Be patient. TIE flute viii begin again"
N. Favioi held his breath.
Suddenly, crack, the flute!
Let, Oh, let me gaze upon thy facer'
II. jaime, in agitation, struck against the
wall, while IL FaYioI burst into loud laugh
ter.
Il have it, Il Jaune-I have 1t. will pre-
sent you to the artist. Please follow me-"
He took light, and opening Nine. Kissni-
couick's door with his pass key, ne pointed TO
a cage on the table, in which bird similar
to our bleckbirds was moving his head about
and singing without senblance Of fear.
THAT is Nine. Kissmicouicks flute, N.
Jaune-an Australian nightingale. These
birds learn an air perfectly and in the night
charm the neighbors."
Somewhat calmer, for it was folly to get
angry with bird, N. jaime said:
Propose 10 the lady to sell 1t to me- Go as
high as 500 francs, that [ may have the salts
faction of wringing its neck"
"WeIl, II. jaime, viii speak to her this
evening"
NJ. Favioli complied with his promise, but
Nine Kissmicouck sent him walking.
Five hundred francS!" she cried. Il think
Is much Of it as q Chi1arnan OF his pigtaiL
Say to that fellow that | will not sell my
bird for $500, for it is a souvenir of my hus-
band.n
The word ''fellow" touched IL. Jaune's SEN
sibility; he grew red in the face and threat
ened retaliation.
As Nine Eissnicouici1 was accustomed to
sleep from 2 10 o'clock in tie afternoon he
scraped on violin, 200 times In succession,
the first four measures Of Returning from
the Review"
Unfortunately for his plan Nine. Kissrni-
couich was deaf of one ear. She lay on the
other and slept with the serenity of mar
mot.
In the evening, still in perspiration, de-
lighted with having silenced the bird, if not
the mistress, he promised himself fine sleep.
But bark! Suddenly in the silence, crack!
you have. No, you don't have it.
The bird, which had, it appeared, a pro-
digiouS memory, began to sing Returning
from the Review" without prejudice to Let
Me" first one then the other; SO that instead
of one annoyance II. jaime had two.
Under such provocation he stole with the
tread of wolf to Nine. Kissmicouicks door,
By chance she had not locked it. He hurried
TO the cage, and with heart full of bitterness
threw into it biscuit dipped in arseniate of
cl fy~1,,-NaI hocly ooain fn HE
But, far from making away with itself, as
the cruel lordling hoped, the bird sang twice
q minute instead Of once, and then, as though
it had two throats, it warbled the two airs
together, LET Me-" and THE Review"
Furious. N. jaime ran again to the door Of
the American lady. She mad now come in
and locked it, but it gave way under the i'm
pact Of his shoulder.
Madame" cried be, "your conditions, no
matter what they are?'
Indeed, sir, she replied, her face suffused
with bIushes, you have broken into my
domicile with high hand. Save my honorl
Marry me!'
"Beelzebub may take you first!' exclaimed
NJ Jaime, without any French courtesy.
"Then 1 shall appeal to the law"
Pestered by the endless troubles which pur-
sued him N. jaime was finally brought to
say:
Il consent if you let me kill that miserable
parrot"
Il will hand him over to you willingly on
the day Of the nuptials, dear II. John" Sha
thought that his name was John instead Of
jaime.
N. jaime led Nine Kissmicouick to the
altar a few days afterward
II will be so disagreeable," said he to him
self, that she cannot endure me, and viii
hurry off to her own country"
Now, on returning from the review-ex-
cuse me, | mean from church-he promised
himself the inhuman satisfaction of having
the nightingale fricasseed and served With
his dinner. Nevertheless. Nine. Jaune-Kiss
micOuick graciously handed him the cage.
BOUNDS! What a surprise! 1t was a stuffed
bird which a Partisan artist had mounted as
& singing bird. In order to keep the wheels
from rusting the lady wound it up every
evening before going out.
The other nightingale, which NJ. jaime had
taught to sing 1.-The Review was that Of
Miss Whiterose at No. q.
In face of such contempt II. jaime has en-
tered a complaint TO annul the marriage for
error of peTson--or rather for error of bird.
Translated from the French for the San
Francisco Call.