The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1890-04-19

town, and garIands we're stretched from
house to house across the streets, and the
wedding was celebrated with such mag
nifcence that fourteen days afterward
the people were still talking Of nothing
else.
For one whole year the King and Queen
lived IN Joy and pleasure. The King had
completely forgotten the g~ingernuts and
the Queen the iewsharp.
One morning, however, the King got up
early, putting the wrong foot first out of
bed and everything went wrong. 1t rain9d
all day the imperial globe, with the little
cross on top, fell down, and the little cross
broke off and then when the court painter
came and brought the new maps of the
kingdom, the King saw that the land was
painted red instead of blue as he had or
dered and finally. the Queen had q head
ache. And so it happened that the married
couple, for the first time, fell out Why,
thew did not know themselves the next
day, or if they did know, they would not
tell, The King was growlish, and the
Queen was snappish, and she would always
have the last word. After they had SQUAD
bIed here aud there for some time, the
Queen, Struggling her shoulders contempt
uously, said -
81 Should think by this time you would
be quiet and stop blaming everything that
comes under YOUR eye. You yourself, you
cannot even play the j~ewsharp.
Hardly had the words escaped her be-
fore the King fell in, venomouSly, with
and YOU cannot even bake ginger
nuts I"
sweT h became silent. They separated
without exchanging another word, each
one going into a different chamber.
The Queen sat herself dOwn in the corner
of the sofa and wept, saying to herself /;
"What a silly woman You are! Where in
the world was your common senseF fon
could rot possibly have acted more stu
pidly p r-
The King, on the contrary, walked up
! and down his chamber, rubbing his hands,
saving cit is a real piece of good luck
that nv wife does not know how to bake
ginpernuts. What on earth would | have
Rad to answer her otherwise, when she
Annp it at me that l could not play the
i~ewsharp"
After he had repeated this three or four
times he became happier and happier.
He begsn to whistle his f~aVorite tunes he
| stood before the portrait of his wife that
hung in his chamber, and got up on a
chair to wipe off with his pocket handker
chief q cobweb that was dangling right
over the Queens nose. At length be said {:
she certainly did get into q temper, the
good little wife. Suppose l go n see
what she is ding, anyw way !"
With that he went out of the door n
the long hall, on which all the rooms
opened. But as everything had gone
wrong that day, the valet had of course,
forgotten to light the lamps, although it
was already 8 o'clock at night aud pitch
dark. The King stretched out his hands
before him to keep from knocking against
anything, and tapped cautiously along the
wall as he walked. Suddenly he felt
something soft.
who's there =" he asked.
"It is l." answered the Queen.
"What are you looking for, sweetheart?
II wanted to get your pardon" an
swered the Queen, flor having vezed
you SO" m
Indeed, you need not do that at all !"
said the King and he caught her around
the neck. Il am more in fault than you,
and have forgotten it all long ago. But,
do you know, let US forbid two words in
our kingdom, on pain of death-'jews-
harp and"
"'Gingernuts,' the Queen joined in,
laughing, and secretely wiping away a
pair of tears from Ler ~eyes-and that is
the end of the story.-HsbreU Journal.