The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-02


scarcely on the pillow-crack! you have
it:
"Let, oh, let me gaze upon thy facew
"Flute again" exclaimed M. jaime.
He rang for the chambermaid.
''Ask your master to come here"
NJ. Favioli hurried up.
listen, pray" said M. Juane.
M. FaviOli endeavor6a to hold his
breath. Of sudden two philandering
cats set up caterwauling on the bal
cOny.
81 hear only two cats talking love to
each other" said M. Favioli.
81 hear them too" M. jaime chimed
in. ''Be patient! The flute will begin
again"
M. Favioli held his breath.
Suddenly, crack, the flute!
Let, oh, let me gaze upon thy face"
M. jaime, in agitation, struck against
the wall, while M. Favioli burst into
loud laughter.
81 have it, M. Jaune-I have it. will
present you to the artist. Please follow
me-"
He took a light, and opening Nine.
Kissmicouick' door with his pass-key,
he pointed to cage on the table in
which bird similar to our blackbirds
was moving his head about and singing
without semblance of fear.
"That is Nine Kissmicouick' flute,
nj. Jaune-an Australian nightingale.
These birds learn an air perfectly and
in the night charm the neighbors."
Somewhat calmer, for it was fslly to
get angry with bird, M. jaime said:
Propose to the lady to sell it to me.
Go as high as five hundred francs, that
| may have the satisfaction of wringing
its neck"
"Well, M. jaime, will speak to her
this evening"
NJ. Fravioli complied with his promise,
but Nine. Kissmicouick sent him walk
ing.
Give hundred francs?" she cried. 81
think as much of it as a Chinaman of
his pigJail. Say to that fellow that
will not sell my bird for five hundred
dollars, for it is souvenir of my hus-
band"
The word fellow touched M. james
sensibility; he grew red in the face and
threatened retaliation.
AS Nine. KiSSmicOuick was accustomed
to sleep from two to five o'clock in the
afternoon he scraped on a violin, two
hundred times in succession, the first
four measures of Returning from the
Review" Unfortunately for his plan
Nine Kissmicouick was deaf of one ear.
She lay on the other and slept with the
serenity of a marmot.
In the evening, still in a perspiration,
delighted with having silenced the bird,
If not the mistress, he promised himself
a fine sleep.
But bark! Suddenly in the silence,
crack! you have it. No, you don't have it.
The bird, which had, it appeared,
prodigious memory, began to sing Gre
turning from the Review" without
prejudice to Let Me-" first one. then
the other: SO that instead of one annoy
ance NJ. jaime had two.
Under such provocation he stole with
the tread of wolf to Nine. Kissmi-
couick's 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 potash
and tripped back again to his room.
But far from making away with itself,
as the cruel lordling hoped, the bird
sang twice minute instead of once, and
then, as though it had two threats, it
warbled the two airs together, "Let
Me-" and "The Review"
Furious, M. jaime ran again to the
door of the American lady. She had
now come in and locked it, but it gave
way under the impact of his shoulder.
Madame" cried he, "your conditions,
no matter what they are?"
Indeed, SIR" she replied, her face suf-
fused with bushes, ''you have broken
into my domicile with high hand.
Save my honor! Marry mel"
"Beelzebub may take you frst!" ex-
claimed M. jaime, without any French
courtesy.
''Then 1 shall appeal to the law
Pestered by the endless troubles
which pursued him M. jaime was
finally brought to say:
Il consent if you let me kill that
miserable parrot"
81 will hand him over to you will
ingly on the day of the nuptials, dear M.
john" She thought that his name was
John instead OF jaime.
NJ. jaime led Nine Kissmicouick to the
altar few days afterward.
Il will be so disagreeable,' said he to
himself. that she can not endure me
and will hurry off to her own country"
Now, on returning from the review
excuse me-, | mean from church-he
promised himself the inhuman satisfac-
ton Of having the nightingale fricas-
seed and served with his dinner Never
theless Nine. ne-Kissmicouick gra-
ciously handed him the cage
Zouudsi What surprise. It was a
stuffed bird which Paris artisan 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 M. jaime
had taught to sing the Review" was
that OF Miss Whiterose at No. 6.
In face OF such contempt NJ. jaime has
entered complaint to annul the mar
rage for error of person-or rather for
error of bird.-Translated from the
French for the San Francisco Call.
How time HES" Jenkins
II am not aware Of its speedy pas
sage" B.-s'Then you have not a not.