The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1903-08-14
SINBAD'S SIXTH
=. ADVENTURE ..


wonder | couldn't get on TO myself,
and stay at home and bc a farmer or
something. But ] guess this Is the
last flop out of the box. I'm done up
sure this time. starched, blued and
ironed."
But while he was wiggling round in
his grave, fretting at the pebbles and
trying to find a soft spot. he gets it
into his nut 10 20 and take last long
look at that fresb-water river that runs
into the mountain. and while he's rub
bering nj that, his ideas begin 10 smoke
up, and he s1ys to himself, Maybe
this river that goes in her comes out
some place else"
oh, my; oh, my; It's a wonder he or
some OF those iubdubs he buried didn't
think Of that before When that eight
een-carat notion bounces down on him
he grabs his head and holds IL tight
so IL won's explode. Old Sinbad was
clever and game and good fellow,
but he was "A shade slow 10 catch on
sometimes. "ou had To fall n house
OH him or something TO wake him mp.
Well. be built raft and loaded II
with diamonds and rubles Tnd cats
eyes, and ambergris and aloes-wood
and rich goods, and cut loose on that
river that was flowing backward, and
noated into the mountain. He ought
To have tied one of those coughing
whales 10 his hind axe, too If he'd
ever got u home where he could feed
IL on pitch. he'd have made Il heap of
money out of IT,
The river ran into dark cave, and
Sinbad scootcd along for several days
inside the mountain. He finished his
last can Of tea and his last snap, and
then he lay down on the barge and
went to sleep When he woke up he
found himself in the open country On
the other side OF the mountain; and
the raft was tied to he shore. and n
lot of colored PEOPLE were rubberIng
around IT, They told him they had
spotted his raft bobbing down the Wa.
bash, and had hauled il lnshore. They
were irrlgating bunch Of corn-felds
ana watermelon patches, and they
wanted TO know how he came TO be
plcniclling on the wet. When they
heard his little tale. they held up their
hands and said his experience was n
johnny Corker. and that he'd have TO
go and spring il on their king. SO
they packed him on horse, and took
bis goods and waltzed him up to the
kings place.
We'll. the king was so struck on Sin.
bad's adventures that he had the yarn
wrlttcn IN gold letters and filed in the
county recorders Office. Snbad un-
rolled his parcels and showed the king
what lot of fine cats-cycs and dia-
monds and stuff he had picked up on
the seacoast. and offered TO give him
the whole thing. But the King said
that wasn't his style. He not only
wouldn't take anything, but he said
he do something for Sinbad himself
before he left there. Then he turned
Sinbad over To main guy, and told
him TO give him good time.
That was on the island of Sarahduh
or something like that, aud Sinbad
stayed there for month looking
around.
Ey and 10y Sinbad hit the king for n
passport So he could go back TO Bag
dad. and the king was such real
gentleman he offered him two, and
gave him a fine present of something
Besides that, he gave him letter and
present for OHcrrin Alraschid.
h. nf tu
The letter was written on the skin OF
yellow goat. or some beast that was
worth money. and the ink used was
blue. The letter went something like
this:
Prom the King OF the Indians
whose parade starts of with hun
drcd elephants, and who lives In big
palace frescoed over with a hundred
thousand rubies, and who has twenty
thousand diamond-covered crowns IL
! the safe deposit vaults. TO Calipl
O'Herrin Alracchid. Dear o'Herrin:-
Though the little gift l send you ism
much, please accept il for friendship
sake am n friend OF yours. old man
and You can bet your eye on that III
prove IL any time you want me 10.
hope you're a friend Of mine. because
believe I'm .- your class. and maj
youn find II good thing TO tie to
Good.by."
The present was flowery offering
Charlie. There was n cup made out o
a single ruby. and IL was six inchc
high and an inch thick and fun o
pearls. There was n wagon-load q
aloes wood and campfire. and n snake
skin withs scales as big as twenty
dollar pieces: and you couldn't get sic
II YOU lay on that skin. But the articl
I'm the invoice that faded everythin
else was slave-grl. She was
prize beauty beaut from Beautvill'
Ii would make you light I'm the garrc
To look at her. and her pinaforc wa
hung with diamonds guess she Wa
perfectly miserable. from what Sinha
said
Slnbad took these things and his an
bergris and stun and blew home
Bagdad. and he delivered the prl'
4 beauty and the letter and the rub
2 tumbler and the snake-skin TO Ole
rim Alraschid.
4 When O'IIerrin read .he letter. ]
r said: lis this on the level? Is th
J. Tommy as big a duck as he says j
n isi"
2 And old Sinbad said: Gross M
e heart he is. lie isn't swelling Il hi
e That palace OF his would make yo
a. | I,ir,E Nhnn his nihs nnns ont for