Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-09-06
him with the early dawn and came to

him with the early dawn and came to
consult with his enemy, the King of
the Birds, because | heard the words
that the Eyes of Tu-Kila-Kila, who
pervade the world, report to their
master The Eyes have told him that
the King of Rain, the Queen of the
Clouds. and the King of the Birds are
plotting together in secret against Tu-
kila-Kila When l herd that was
glad; went to the King OF the Birds
to warn him of his danger; and the
Kings OF the Birds, concerned for your
safety. has sent me in haste to ask his
brother gods to go at once to him.
In minute Felix was up and had
called out Mali from the neighboring
hut Tell Missy Queenie," he cried,
''to come with me to see the mama
oui-oui! The man-a-oui-oui has sent
me for us to come. She must make
great haste He wants us imlned-
lately"
With word and sign to Toxic Ola
glided away stealthily. with the cat
like tread Of the native Polyne5ian
womer, back to her hated huS band.
Felix went out to the door and hello
graphed with his bright metal plate,
turned on the Frenchman's hill,
"What is it,"
In moment the answer flashed
back word, Come quick, if you want
to hear, Methuselah is reciting,"
A few seconds later Muriel emerged
from her hut, and the two Europeans,
closely followed, as always, by their
inseparable Shadows, took the wind
ing side-path that led through the
Jungle by devious way, avoiding the
front of Tu-Kila-Kila's temple, to the
Frenchman's cottage.
They found M. Peyron very much eX-
cited by Ula's news of Tu-Kila-Kila 8
attitude, but more still by Methuse-
labs agitated condition THE whole
night through, my dear friends" he
cried Selling their hands, that bird
has been chattering. Oh, mon
Dieu, quel oiscau! 1t seems as though
the words heard yesterday from mad
emoiselle had struck some lost chord
in the creatures memory. But he is
also very feeble. | can see that we'll.
His garrulity is the garrulity of old
age in its last hickering moments. He
numbers and mutters He chuckles
to himself. If you don't hear his mes
sage now and at once, it's my solemn
conviction you will never hear it.
He led them out to the aviary, W here
Methuselah, in g feet, was sitting on
his perch, most tremulous and woe be-
gone. His feathers shuddered yisiblv;
he could no longer preen himself.
''Listen to what he says the French
man exclaimed, in avery serious voice.
''It is your last, last chance. If the
secret is ever to be unraveled at all,
by Methuselah's aid, now is, without
doubt, the proper moment to unrayel
it"
Muriel put out her hand and stroked
the bird gently. pretty Poll" She
said, sooth;ngly, in sympathetic
voice. pretty Pol. Poor Poll. Was
he i'll. Was re sutiering:"
At the sound OF these familiar words,
unheard so long till yesterday, the
parrot took her finger in his beak once
more, and bit it With the tenderness OF
his kind in their softer moments. Then
he threw back his head with a sort Of
mechanical twist, and screamed out at
the top OF his voice, for the last time
on earth, his myterious message:
save the king. Confound the Duke Of
York! Death to all arrsnt lznaves and
roundheade.
SIN the nineteenth year of the reign
of his most gracious ma esty, King
Charles the Second, |, Nathaniel Cross.
of the borough of Sunderland, in the
County OF Doorham, in England, an
able bodied mariner, then sailing the
South Seas in the good bark Martyr
Prince, Of the ort of Great Grimsby,
whereof one Thomas Wells. gent. I'M
der God; was master, was, by tress OF
hnp NrnaLra raSt
the shores of this islam l, called by the
gentle inhabitants by the name OF Boo
Parry In which wreck, as it befell
Thomas Wells, gent, and his equip
ment were, by divine disposition, killed
and drowned. save and except three
mariners, whereof | am one, who in
Gods good providence swan safely
through an exceeding great flood OF
waves and landed at last on this Is ard
There my two companions, Owen Will
Jams, Of Swansea, in the part OF Wales,
and Lewis lie Prichard, French Hew-
genott refugee, were at once, by the
gentiles. cruelty entreated, and after
great torture cooked and eaten at the
tempe OF their great chief god. Too
Keela- keela. But, | myself having
through Gods ace found favor in
their eyes. was promoted to the post
which in their speech is called Korong,
the nature of which this bird, my
mouthpiece, will hereafter, to your
ears, more fully discover
Having said so much, in a very jerky
way Methuselah paused, and blinked
his eyes YEARLY.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Thy olives Are Cheap.