Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-05-07
A DE VENEZUELA.

castle. and above the castle. and
around about the castle eyerywhereL
night when the darkness lends his
robes to monster fear. and heavens
black mantle. banishing the light.
Grapes everything in forms of ugly
Japanese-art-wo work woe. From within
the heavy mullioned windows lights
fash out and even gild the gloom.
The low. unhealthy moan of the
trace-chained bull dog without
mingles with the tempestuous, gang
saw voice OF the mosquito within. and
the soughing winds whistle through
the turrets Of the royal hen house
like an asthmatic fat man climbing
Owe a fence.
1t is a festal night in the castle.
Philip St Vincent Yermicilli the sole
heir OF the lordiy house OF Vermicilli
has arrived and pulled of his boots.
Is not the mission of his errand to de.
mand the hand Of the Princess Clara
the only, lovely daughter OF King
Rodriguez di Venezuela?
1t is.
All the noble knights OF the realm
are assembled in the stately. grand
ancestral halls OF the castle. King
Rodriguez aseends the throne on a step
ladder. All is as still as death. and
each OF the noble guests could have
distinctly heard a dray pin drop on a
nigger's head in the wide. wide waste
of frescoed court yard far below.
But il didn't drop.
The king raises his voice and elo.
cutes:
stand forth most noble YermicillL
and you, too. me well beloved daugh-
ter. Clara; form in n hollow square in
dress parade before me"
With slow and carefully measured
steps the pair approach and kneel at
the big foot OF the throne-Nermicilli
with a proud naughty. don't-give.a-
cent air and the Princess Clara deeply
yelled and trembling with a large and
varied assortment OF agitation.
Her royal father remarks in a voice
in which paternal affection and fine
cut struggle for the mastery:
,.Do you most lordly. courtly YER
micillL accept the hand OF me beauti-
full daughter the worshipful Princess
Clara?'
Il do" calculated the happy, ex-
pectant lover.
.And you, me daughter. do you ac-
cept the hand of the noble Vermi-
cilli?"
As the Princess Clara heard these
words she glanced up with a quick in
telligeut look on her handsome, heayi-
ly-powdered features. and with a sud
den jerk tore the wedding veil from
her black hair. Tall and stately as she
draws herself up with the innate mod
esty OF a telephone pole, she captures
the heart OF every beholder. Large,
luminous eyes flashing jet black hair.
and feet-but we ann describe
them. We have not space enough IN
this paper to do them justice.
Before the words OF her father cease
TO reverberate throughout the grand
and gloomy corridors, she disgorges a
wild impassioned shrek and knee!iue
before the throne in agonized tones
and with tears coursiug down her
nose she DANGEROUSLY appeals to hel
father:
Spare me, oh noble sire! Fancy
my feelings linked for life to a mar
seventy Ave years old, b~ow-legged,
with commercial teeth, and a nose
like the Orient at sunrise. Do no
ask your daughter to throw herseli
away and blight her life for all tim,
and eternity. Better resolve yoursel
into a committee of the whole ant
reconsider the vote old man."
As he heard these cruel words, {
81. 80 frown arose at Vermicillrs col
lar-button, enveIoped his whole fac,
and throat-latch, and. passing owe
his Parian marble brow slipped dowr
into the back OF his neck. The ole
king could hardly believe his owl
ears but as they had never gone bacl
} on him before he concluded TO trus
them. Drawing himself proudly up
he gradually assumed an utterly i'm
possible attitude. and with clencheC
fists and livid countenance, he howled
,Ha! Base Kitei Me W daughte,
turned tra-a- a-itress, 1t is too much
/, much too much. Tell me that me ear
deceived me. Say, oh unsay thos,
cruel. baleful words, Say that yol
will wed with Vermicilli, and all shall
be forgiven!'
NO, father " said the girl gestieu
lating like n pair of governor balls oil
an engine, ut can never be. ] viii
only marry the best and noblest maj
in the world. | want n hand-me
down relic, who looks as though h,
had been snatched out OF a second
hand store. Call a tournamen of tbs
most illustrious youths known to chiv
airy and put an advertisement in tn,
papers that ] will marry the one will
the most noble carriage, the chicies
in the land, he who shows off to tn
a hest advantage. That's me that
q your daughter, Miss Clara
; Well, said the king rs he fel
4 back in his chair thoroughly bluffed
y iii that is the case, l suppose yo'
! must have your own way. Sir Vermi
cilli. l heartily beg your pardon TO
the slight Inconvenience 10 which yo'
| have been subjected, but it seems Il