Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-10-06
THE GANGS NEW MEMBER.
Annie Laura in the San Francisco FIX
aminer.

besieged them until they begged for
mercy, and when we let them out I'M
der the white flag we counted up and
found six killed and three wounded"
Nobody moved
six of ourn killed, mind you" said
Jimmie Kennedy, 'and four of ourn
wounded"
Still no one moved.
IF you'd have been here then" said
Jimmie Kennedy, turning to the new
member, you'd been one of the woun-
ded anyway, and more'n likely one of
the killed"
That's right" said the Rangers in a
chorus, but the new Ranger didn't
SPEAK.
The new Ranger was a boy that
would have been pale, only he was so
covered with freckles that he was yell
| low and he had very red hair cut so
short that It looked like a little fuzzy
crimson mold on his brown head and
he had very big eyes, light blue with a
! lot of white to them, and he had light
! cOlored eyebrows and eyelashes that
you could scarcely see them. All the
rest of the Rangers lived up on Tele-
| graph hill, but he came from out Pre-
! sidio way, and this was his first day
as a North Beach Ranger He had
! learned the pass words and the grip all
right enough, and he knew Of the secret
of the cave in the sandhill now, and he
heard wondrous tales of the Rangers
and the Cops, the tale every Ranger
! had to swear to and believe, and he sat
! in the corner of the cave nearest the
Beach and never said q word.
We'll" said Jimmie Kennedy. "Is
that any way to talk? Will you stand
| by us II we stand by your"
yep" said the new member.
yep" echoed Jimmy Kennedy. ''Is
that any way to talk? Why don't you
say something's"
Il was thinking" said the new mem
Der.
What about?" said Jimmy Ken
nedy.
about that siege" said the new
member, "and the killed and wounded.
1t made me think Of kind of a queer
time I had in Persia once"
"Where?" said the Rangers in cbo-
rus.
In Persia" said the new member
"When l was q captive"
Captive TO who?' said the Rangers
in chorus.
"To the fire worshlppers," said the
new member.
"CrackeyP said jim Kennedy.
q was a captive" said the new mem
ber "They treated me pretty well. l
got along frstrate. I got acquainted
with the shah"
Whats a shah?" said Jimmie Ken
nedy.
"a shah" said the new member, is
king I got acquainted with him and
he was all right, and he told me he'd
only keep me a captive a while, just to
keep hts soldiers from getting mad,
and then he'd see. I had q horse, one
of those Arabian horses, you know, 1t
tells about in the reader, and had q
faithful hound, and all had to do was
to lay around and get up and salaam
whenever anyone spoke to me. One
day the shah's son and l went bird
nesting. The shRh's son name was
Ala Ba Fan. He was all right till you
got him mad, but when he was mad
well-we went bird-nesting and l got
whOoping big Roc's egg, big as l was
most. and wanted him TO help me
pack 1t. and he wouldn't. Said he was
! Son OF the Moon and Brother ofthe Son,
and he wouldn't be found dead packing
no roc's egg for no red-headed dog OF a
Christian that ever lived. Well, OF
course. I had to swat him, and did it.,
and I swatted him good, and instead OF
fighting back he began to bawl, and he
got on his horse and went back to the
| palace mad. Well, l was mad, too, so
I didn't care. OF course, as long as d
lick him, got over my mad first, ana
spoke all right when l met him in the
| palace. but he never answered, 80 1
lust thought: We'll, stay mad If 1t does
YOU any good and l went of to where
the Bashi Bazouks was and heard some
bully stories about fights and things.
THAT night 1 was just going to bed
when I heard somebody coming in their
sl.thery rusty, kind Of way, like a
snake. and I looked and there was the
Niger boy that tagged Ala Ba Fan
around and did chores for him, and he
cot down and bumped his head on the
floor and says
"What did he bump his head on the
floor for" said Jimmy Kennedy,
"Oh. they all do that said the new
member. 1T amt anything. 1t Just
means: Hello or 'Ah there! or any
old thing. and he says: The Son OIL
the Moon wants to see you in the rose
garden I said. "All right and l went
;nto the rose garden. 1t was hne
Mace all full of trees and things, with
ianns made Of diamonds and rubies
hanging on to all the limbs, and btg
lakes let in on floor Of pearl. wen,
Ala Ba Fan wasn't in the garden ana l
was lust getting mad and going BACK
when Koosh Koosh, the little Niger
came a-creeping and a-slithering to-
ward me from corner Of the garden
where the lamps were out.
lou gee gah,' he says kind Of grun-
~ That means follow me- In IRE
Worship talk and followed him.
"He fooled around through a pain
heraandover q. trail there and by and by
wa come to a big wall. Koosh koosh
etooned and gave three kinds OF solemn
knocks ON the wall and it opened and
In went Koosh Koosh and in l went al
ter him The wall shut with an awful
hang and I thought what fool was
not fo mt a stone In It, or something TO
| keep 1t open until 1 went back.
at was dark and I couldn't see much
at first but I heard talking and so l
said. Hello, Ala Ba Zan, is that you?
! That's what it is said Ala Ba Fan.
eYonlI find it out too, and then they
boIIered out: Seize hint and they
! seized me- They tied my legs and my
ans and then stood me- down on the
ground. a-o,,r1 en-
rbat bannens to fellers that try to lick