The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-15
THE CORPSE CANE TO LIFE.
NATIVE BUNCH OF FLOWERS
THAT WOULD NOT DIE.
Tumbled off High Lanai but Liquor
Served as Talisman to Save Him to
Pay a Fine.

Huihuipua although a native must be
some relation to Pat Malone who for
got that he was dead. Both of these
worthless one an Hawaiian and the
other an Hibernian refused to remain
dead and both started up while their
acquaintances were grouped around the
supposed corpses. Huihuipua means
bunch of flowers and Huihuipua is GER
tainly entitled to a bouquet. He scared
the patrol wagon crew half out of their
wits Saturday night by coming to life
after he had been announced dead.
Huihuipua found a kind and hospi-
table friend on that evening. The friend
set them up often and prodigiously.
Huihuipua did not overlook a bet, as
the gamblers say, for he drank every
time the corks popped and the neighbors
declared there was a regular tattoo
concert going on before the wagon came
With his belt eased to the last hole
Huihuipua decided he wanted same
fresh air so he meandered out onto the
Lanai of the second story. Looking
downward he could see the earth 80
feet below him.
Liquor has different effect upon men
, Some it causes to real sentimental and
others morose. 1t caused Huihuipua to
feel as proud as if kingly blood flowed
in his veins AS he ruminated upon
this mundane sphere, 80 feet beneath
him his pride evidently rose as great as
that of Lucifer and the Bunch decided
to give correct though miniature imi-
tation of the fall of the Prince of Dark
ness. A wave of the hand lurch and
over the railing the Bunch of Flowers
tumbled
He did not fall seven nights and seven
days. 1t took about seven shakes of a
lambs tail to bring the head of Huihui-
pua into violent contact with the ground
The thud was dull and of a sickened
character. AS soon as the friends of
the Bunch saw him lying PROSTATE and
lifeess upon the ground they at once
raised the cry that he was dead, and so
he was-dead drunk. The police were
at once notified that there was a dead
man in the front yard of house Eva
on Liliha street. The patrol wagon
was sent for hiTn. The officers examined
the man, pronounced him dead ana
placed him on the Stretcher and started
back to the station house with he sup
posed corpse. Billy the driver was filled
with regret over the sudden and sad
demise in the midst of rounds of plea
sure
Suddenly the dead stiffness Surround
ing the improVised hearSe was broken
\ by an unheaVenly grunt from the direc-
tion of the corpse. The hair of the
: horses stood on end and the cold chill
of terror went creeping up the Spines Oi
the men on the wagon, for there sitting
bolt upright in the middle of the rig
was the supposed corpse. He was
either a live one or a ghost but which
the men did not want to go close
enough to determine.
1t is possible that the horses might
have bolted had not the corpse come tC
rescue of the crowd and like Pat Ma
lone it's honored predecessor spoken
aloud. Like Little Egypt the night af-
ter the Seeley dinner the Bunch OF
Flowers rubbed his eyes and plaintively
inquired Where am I?"-with the ac-
cent on the where"
ooh 1 say you aint a dead one are
you?" queried the driver. ''Wel not
until 1 vote for Wilcox" replied the
corpse. When the Bunch was up be.
fore Police Judge Wilcox this morning
the Judge decided to hand him a buncr
which he did in the shape of 50 anC
costs. Huihuipua declared it was the
cheapest funeral he ever hoped to en-
joy.