Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-05-22

micouick is a mature widow If she firted
It would be seriously, and as she weighs some
2OO pounds it would not be with flute. She
would take at least clarionet. This lady
goes every evening into the best society. and
returns at II O'clock
Nj. jaime, Disconnected, went back to his
room. However, his head was scarcely on
the pillow-crackl you have it:
Let oh, let me gaze upon thy facer'
Flute againlr exclaimed NJ. jaime. He
rang for the chambermaid
ASK your master 10 come here
NJ. Favioi hurried up.
Listen, pray" said NJ. jaime.
M. Favioli endeavored 10 hold his breath
OF a sudden two philandering cats set up
caterwauling ON the balcony.
81 hear only two cats talking love to each
other,r said NJ Favioh
Il hear them, too NJ jaime chimed in
"Be patientl The flute will begin again
N. Favioli held his breath.
Suddenly, crack, the hutel
Let oh. let me gaze upon thy face"
M. jaime, in agitation, struck against the
wall, whih NJ. Favioli burst into loud laugh
ter.
Il have it, M. Jaune-I have it. will pre-
sent you to the artist. Please follow men
He took light, and opening Mime. Kissmi-
couick's door with his pass key, he pointed to
cage on the table, in which a bird similar
to our blackbirds was moving his head about
and singing without semblance Of fear.
"That is Nine. Kissmicouicks flute, NJ.
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, NJ. jaime said:
Propose to the lady to sell it to me. Go as
high as 800 francs, that may have the salts
faction Of wringing its neck"
swell, NJ Jaune will speak to her this
evening"
M Favioli complied with his promise, but
Nine. Kissmicouick sent him walking.
Five hundred francsln she cried. 81 think
as much of 1t as Chinaman of his pigtail
Say to that fellow that will not sell my
bird for $500, for it is a souvenir of my hus-
band
The word ''fellow" touched NJ Jaune's sem
sibility; he grew red In the face and threat
ened retaliation.
As Nine, Kissmicouick was accustomed to
sleep from to o'clock in the afternoon he
scraped on a violin, 200 times in succession,
the first four measures of Returning from
the Review
Unfortunately for his plan Nine. Kissmi.
couick was deaf of one ear. She lay on the
other and slept with the serenity of mar
mot.
In the evening, still in a perspiration, de-
lighted with having slenced the bird, if not
the mistress, he promised himself fine sleep.
But harki Suddenly in the silence, crack
you have No, you don't have it.
The bird, which had, it appeared, 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 N. jaime had two.
Under such proyocation he stole with the
tread of wolf TO Nine Kissmcouick'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 lordiag hoped, the bird sang twice
a minute instead'of once, and then, as though
it had two throats, it warbled the two airs
together, "Let Me-" and 1.-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 inn
pact Of his shoulder
Madame, - cried he, ''your conditions, no
matter what they areF
Indeed, sir, she replied, her face suffused
with bushes, you have broken into my
domicile with high hand. Save my honor
Marry meln
'Beelzebub may take you firstln exclaimed
NJ. jaime, without any French courtesy
''Then | shall appeal to the law"
Pestered by the endless troubles which pur
sued him NJ. jaime was finally brought to
say:
~ consent if you let me kill that miserable
parrot
II will hand him over to you willingly on
the day Of the nuptials, dear NJ. john She
thought that his name was John instead OF
jaime.
NJ. jaime led Mime. Kissmicouick to the
altar few days afterward.
IL will be so disagreeable," said be to him
self, that she cannot endure me, and will
hurry off to her own country
Now, on returning from the reviewer
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.
Zounds What a surprisei It was stuffed
bird which Partisan artist had mounted as
q 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 The Review" was that of
Miss Whiterose at No. 6.
In face of such contempt NJ. jaime has en-
t.ared a connnlainf IN annul the MARRIAGE for
error Of person--or rather for error of bird.
from the French for the San
Francisco Call
No Flower Language Now.