Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-22

timev' he cried, and down swooped the
net over the beautiful thing.
But just at that moment the handle of
the net was violently jerked away from
him, and a great, gruf voice cried: ''Ha,
there! Stop that! How dare you touch
the princess, you wretched little brute!'
At the same time something grabbed him
by the shoulder.
julius turned in surprise and alarm, and
saw a sight that made his blood run cold.
There close to him, were two enormous
butterflies, the like of which he had never
seen nor dreamed Of before. Their bod
les were at last feet long, and their
wings reached way, way up, above. his
head. They were very pretty, all blue
and yellow; bat julius did not stop to
think of that, for they were looking at
him very angrily. One of them held in
tie boy had been trying to catch the prln.
cess, and the other with his forefoot held
julius by the shoulder with a grasp that
he tried in vain to shake off:
what do you mean" demanded the
monstrous butterfly, giving him rough
and right here in the butterfly paradise,
too?
Il didn't know that it was princess -
stammered the little boy, turning very
pale, land didn't know that this was the
butterfly paradise"
terrible creature. "You didn't know, Ell?
And you meant to stick pin through her
and fasten her to board! Perhaps you
will say that you didn't know it hurt but
terfies to have pins stuck right through
them! Ha! We know how much tor
ture you have inflicted on the poor inno-
cent butterflies, and on purpose too. to see
them suffer. You didn't know, indeed!'
please, sir, I'll never do it any more"
sobbed little Julius very humbly, for he
was terribly scared 'And if you'll
please let me go I'll go right home and
never stick pins in any more butter
hies''
mo! / do not think you will"' roared
the butterfly in a voice that made julius
tremble all over; Il do not think you
will stick pins in any more butterflies;
but that is not saying that the butter
flies will not stick pins in you"
"Oh, please, l won't do it any more"
sobbed julius. thoroughly frightened.
Indeed won't! want to go home to
my mammal
swell, you cannot go home now" said
the big butterfly, land that is all there
is about it. We are the butterfly police
whose duty it is to guard this paradise
and protect the lives and property of
the butterfly kings subjects, and we
have caught you in his very dominions
trying to murder his own daughter. Yes,
that's it-murder, bloody, wicked MUIR
der! And do you think that we are go
ing to let you go home? No, indeed!
You will go to jail until the king de-
cides what to do with you!''
julius cried and begged, but the two
monstrous butterflies would not listen to
him at all. He turned and begged the
butterfly princess, who still sat I'M
harmed on the tulip, to make the police
men let him go, but she turned her back
on him and would not answer him a
word.
Then the two giant butterflies grasped
him, one each side, by the arms, and
few away with him through the air as
easily as though he had been no heavier
than gnat, carrying, too. his net, to
show it to the butterfly king in proof
of his wickedness.
What came of it all / cannot tell you
till next week.-Nelson Ayres in New
Orleans Picayune.