The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-17
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spent several days at a well known
slipped away from the dancing room
to enjoy a cigarette, and by the fire
of the deserted writing room he fell
asleep.
When Daily awoke he found a little
boy playing at his feet. The lights
We're turned low, but in the glow of
the freight he could see a large Noah's
ark on the heartrug, and arranged in
long procession across the room and
extending out along the passage way
was pater Noah, his wife and family,
and his world-famed menagerie of wild
beasts and birds and creeping things.
'Faver Noah sail stand by We ark
an tount Vem as vey doe in. MuVer
Noah will divine We Outs an We OSt-
wiches. Sem and Ham will stand in
We passage, and Jephet and. we fwee
young women will dwive at We back
AS he spoke the little boy glanced
along the passage way to where Japhet
and Noah's three stepdaughters
brought up the rear of the procession.
and as he did so there was "a sound
of approaching footsteps.
1t was Dalbys fiancee, the wealthy
Miss Moneygold. She was wearing a
dress of white satin. which she had
donned that day for the first time, and
her heart was filled with the satisfac-
ton which comes with the knowledge
that one is the best dressed person in
the room.
AS she came along the passage Miss
Moneygold stumbled over the child's
toys and carried devastation along the
whole line of the procession entering
the ark
She placed one satin-slippered foot
on Japliet at the rear of the procession,
e-1iv
Shot from beneath her. She attempted
to recover herself. but her next step
was upon the roly-poly body of the
hippOpotamus, and her third on Mrs.
Noah and the ostriches.
Then, like a living deluge, Miss
Moneygold came down violently upon
her hands and knees upon the crowded
part of the procession where Father
Noah stood counting the numbers be-
fore the ark.
AS Miss Moneygold fell there was a
sound of tearing drapery, and when
she scrambled to her feet Little Daily
saw that her gorgeous new satin dress
had been torn across at the knees.
oh. you've bwOke We efelent and We
ostwichr' walled the little boy and
he darted down beneath Miss Money
Colds skirts to rescue them from fur
Their injury.
For answer the angry beauty stopped
down and boxed his ears, and as she
stepped back tC do so her foot slipped
ON the rounded form of pater Noah
himself, and her dress caught on one
Of the gates of the ark.
80, you're tweading on some more
of vem," cried the little boy, and again
he dived beneath her feet to the res
cue OF Father Noah.
Under this eXaSpera ton Miss Money
gold was betrayed into the error which
ended her engag cement with Little Dali
by She shook the offending toy from
her dress and then raised the heel of
her satin shoe. she stamped upon it,.
so that the ridge of the roof went
crashing in, the gable ends burst out
and nothing but a miserable wreck re-
NAMED.
The little boys grief and Indignation
at this appalling disaster was too
great for words, but not so Little Dali
by's.
ito go and smash the child's toy like
that"
Miss Moneygold had not noticed Dali
by's presence before.
How dare you speak to me like that,
sir, how dare you? You shall apollo
gize in public for such an insult"
No, 1 won't apologize and I'll say
it again. It's a contemptibly spiteful
thing to do and so l tell you
AS Daily spoke the little boy
emerged from beneath Miss Money
COLDS feet bearing the mangled body
of Father Noah and the shattered tim
berS of the ark. He ran to Little Dai-
by's chair, and climbing up into his
arms, sobbed as though his heart
would break.
Never mind. Willie, boy. I'll buy
you another one when we get back TO
CT hot hoN n
ether one, and We'll see if we can't
get one with a kangaroo in it and a
megatherium and a jabber-wOck and
Miss MoneygOld, seeing herself ig-
nored, fiounced out of the room in a
state of great anger. The following
morning Miss Moneygold dispatched
this note to Little Daily:
Dear Mr.. Daily: After what oc-
Cured yesterday our engagement is at
an end. Yours, etc, Diana Money
gold"
In the course of the day she received
a reply which made her furious. 1t
read as follows:
Dear Little Willie-boy: 1 send you
new Noah's ark, which | hope will
tide you over the deluge of tears you
shed yesterday. Your faithful friend
and colleague, Mister Duby."
An hour later a second letter arrived
explaining that a wrong letter had
been sent The one intended for Miss
Moneygold had been enclosed by mis-
take in Willie's new NOah's ark, but
had been returned. and was not for
warded to its proper destination. 1t
was as brief as Miss Moneygolds own
note:
Dear Diana: l agree with you. 1t
is best that our engagement should
be at an end. Faithfully yours, Dick"
Sheffield Telegraph.