The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1903-09-24

gentleman he offered him two, and
gave him n fine present OF something.
Besides that, be gave him letter and
a present for 0'Herrln Alraschid,
O'Herrin was the Callph Of Bagdad,
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:
From the King of the Indians,
whose parade starts Off with n hum.
bred elephants, and who lives in big
palace frescoed over with hundred
thousand rubies, and who has twenty
thousand dlamond-covered crowns in
the safe deposit vaults, to Callph
O'Herrin Alrascbid. Dear O'Herrin;--
Though the little gift l send you isn't
much, please accept 1t for friendships
fake. l am friend Of yours, old man.
and you can bet your eye on that Ill
prove It any time you want me to. /
hope you're friend Of mine, because l
believe I'm - your class, and a man
you'll find 1t q good thing to tie to.
Good-by."
The present was a lowery Offering,
Charlie. There was a cup made out Of
a single ruby, and 1t was six inches
high and an inch thick and full Of
pearls. There was n wagon-load Of
aloes-wood and campfire, and a snake
skin with scales as big as twenty
dollar pieces; and you couldn't get sick
IL you lay on that skin. But the article
in the invoice that faded everything
else was a slave-girl. She was a
prize beauty beaut from Beautville.
II would make you light in the garnet
to look at her, and her pinafore was
hung with diamonds. guess she was
perfectly miserable, from what Sinbad
said.
Sinbad took these things and his am
bergrls and stuff and blew home TO
Bagdad, and he delivered the prize
beauty and the letter and the ruby
tumbler and the snake.skin to o'Her-
rim Alraschid.
When O'Herrin read the letter, be
said: us this on the level? Is this
Tommy as big duck as lie says he
isT'
And old Sinbad said; 'Cross my
heart he is. He isn't swelling 1t bit.
That palace of his would make you
blink. When his nibs goes out for a
ride, he sits on a throne on an ele-
plants back, and the government
officials and all the court hands line up
in double ranks ON both sides; and
guy rides ia front of him on the ele-
plant, with a gold lance, and another
mark rides behind him on the elephant,
and holds Up a gold rod with an
emerald six lctcs long ard an inch
thick on top of It; and he has a thou
sand soldiers mounted on elephants
riding ahead Of him to keep the street
open, and the swatties and the ele-
plants are dressed up In silk and gold
cloth in heightened style. While the
procession is blowing along, the
monkey with the lance keeps hollering:
Behold the big high muck-a-mucli,
the high-tempered, hard-hitting, dead
game Sultan of the Indians, whose
brown-stone front sheds rubies the
year round, and who has two million
diamond crowns on the banks books!
Behold his crowned jagsl He is
hotter dog than old Solomon. and q
higher stopper. and the bell-wethert
king OF any time or place Take a
look at him and der And the bloke
with the emerald, on the back steps of
the throne, keeps answering, But this
great, nll-wool, thrce-ply king must
croali, must croalk, must croak.' And
the peope all yell together, 'And-that's
-no-dream.' Besides that, the Sui
tan of the Indians is so square, and the
people are all such good boys, that ev-
erybody does the right thing, and there
are no courts in the country"
When he heard that, O'Herrrin said,
Ills letter shows he's a wise one,"
and O'Herrin was pulled up because
his Indian joblots wanted to be friends.
and he gave Sinbad some more pres
cnts and sent him home. 1 wonder
what he did with the beaut from Beaut-
vile. I suppose he handed her a num-
Der and a shakedown in the domestic
department and forgot about her.
From Jack Hardin's Arabian Nights"
by ]. w. Scott Copyright, 1908. by
Herbert b. Turner g. Co., Publishers,
Boston.
Calvc on Tier Work.