Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-09

tor took some little bottles from his med
cine case an we all went to the spring.
we niled little cask with water: took out
Its head, an the doctor emptied a bottle
OF stun into the water. Then we covered
the spring over with Some wreck stuff an
left It, In the afternoon. when We went
TO the spring, there was dead lion there
whose name had been Romeo. We skinned
Romeo because Mr.. Lighter thought we
might need his hide for evidence in the
damage case. Our belief in the suit was
somewhat shook that mornin', however,
when We foun' that John Drake had re-
tanned Mr.. Lighter to sue US all for mali
ciously poisonin' Romeo a valuable intel
ligent, an docile lion. for no cause whatso-
ever. Romeo may have been valuable an
intelligent, but he was very peaked; an
whether he died from natural causes as
Mr.. Lighter put down in the papers in our
case. an as DIR. Sawyer said the autopsy
showed, or from poison, as Mr.. Lighter
stated in John brakes papers. there was
a pretty general idea that had he lived
till night he would have made a meal OF
of some one.
There's no use goin' into all the details
of our stay on that island. We watched
the sky line all day long, an at night We
kept signal fire goin', but we didn't see
anythin but blue sky stretchin' bluer and
higher every day. j acquired a dislike for
blue sky at that time l have never gotten
over. The third day MIR. Lighter made for
NAL charges against President Drake OF
extravagant expenditure of provisions, an
although the president retained Mr.. Light
er to defend him. We deposed John Drake
an elected William Pitt Lighter to sue
coed him. The new president put US on
short rations. an a day or so later, when
Capn Cyrus said he thought he could fix
up line an maybe catch some fish, we
deposed Lighter an elected Cap'n Cyrus
Bunker president. Cap'n Cyrus made a
line from shirt an fixed up hook from
piece Of wire. an baited It with one OF
the last pieces Of pork we had. Then he
got on a rock an started to fish. He had a
bite right away: In fact, there was a fight
Tor his hook. Six sharks fit like blazes to
get caught an the one that succeeded was
the first two-tailed shark 1 ever seen in
his native lair. He swallowed the pork an
went right on away with the bait, hook an
lire. Cap'n Cyrus let go of the line with
promptness, or he would have gone along
with the rest Of the outfit. After that we
deposed Cap'n Cyrus an elected me presi-
dent. During my term We lived for four
days on the skin of Romeo. Before John
Drake would let us have the skin for pro-
VISIONS he made us sign a paper with
DRAWN our suit for damages on account Of
Romeos mfsdoins. Then when 1 dis
tributed tho first meal from the skin !
wouldn't give John Drake his piece till he
signed a paper withdrawn of his suit fer
damages for Romeo's death. Mr. Lighter
drew the papers in both matters an made
notes Of the charges. He had little book
retained for.
AS say, Romeo's skin lasted four DAYS.
an tnefe was some nourishment In it.,
Some boot tops an leather belts lasted
Two days more: but as food they were not
up to the mark. cook them as we might
Then when We only had a little bit of belt
LETT an was sittin' in council DIR. Sawyer
got up. He wasn't roun' an jolly any
more, by any means. As soon az Dr. Saw
yer arose 1 knew that my official career
was DRAWN to close, an felt like those
old Roman emperors must have felt when
the somethin' or other guard came aroun'