The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19

StutlemlD he OueTSu Inn TWO, ana
gave him a fine present Of something
Besides that, he gave him a letter and
present for O'Herrin Alraschid.
O'Herrin was the Caliph 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:
Prom the King of the Indians,
whose parade starts off with a hun
dred elephants, and who lives in big
palace frescoed over with hundred
thousand rubies, and who has twenty
thousand diamond-covered crowns in
the safe deposit vaults, to Caliph
O'Herrin Alraschid Dear O'Herrin:-
Though the little gift | send you isn't
much, please accept it for friendships
sake l am friend of yours, old man.
and you can bet your eye on that. I'll
prove it any time you want me to. l
hope you're a friend Of mine, because l
believe I'm - your class, and a man
you'll find it a good thing to tie to.
Good-by."
The present was a fowery Offering.
Charlie. There was cup made out Of
single ruby, and it was six inches
high and an inch thick and full OF
pearls. There was a wagon-load OF
aloes-wood and campfire, and q snake
skin with scales as big as twenty
dollar pieces: and you couldn't get sick
If you lay on that skin. But the article
in the invoice that faded everything
else was a slave-girl. She was
prize beauty a beaut from Beautville.
1t would make you light in the garnet
to look at her, and her pinafore was
hung with diamonds. l guess she was
perfectly miserable, from what Sinbad
said.
Sinbad took these things and his am
bergris and stuff and blew home to
Bagdad, and he delivered the prize
beauty and the letter ard the ruby
tumbler and the snake-skin to O'Her-
rim Alraschid.
When O'Herrin read The letter, he
said: rs this on the level? Is this
Tommy as big duck as he says he
is?"
And old Sinbad said: "Cross my
heart he is. He isn't swelling it a bit.
That palace of his would make you
blink. When his nibs goes out for q
ride, he sits on a throne on an Gle
plants back ard the government
officials and all tho court hands line up
in double ranks on both sides; and
guy rides in front of him on the ele-
plant, with gold lance, and another
mark rides behind him on the elephant,
and holds Up a gold rod with an
emerald six lctcs long and IN 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 eie-
plants are dressed UP in silk and gold
cloth in heightened style. While the
procession is blowing along. the
monkey with the lance keeps hoIlering:
Behold the big, high mucll-a-muck.
the high-tempcred, hard-hitting, dead
game Sultan of the Indians, whose
brown-stonc front sheds rubies the
year round, and who has two million
diamond crowns on the banks books!
Behold ais crowned jags! He is
hotter Cog than old Solomon. and a
higher stopper and the be.l-wether
king of any time or place. Take
look at him and die" And the bloke
with the emerald, on the back steps OF
the throne, keeps answering, But this
great, all-wool, thrcc-ply king must
croak, must croall, must croak' And
the peope all yell together, 'And-thats
-no-dream.' Besides that, the Sui
tan of the Indians is so square, and the
people are all such good boys, that ey-
does the right thing, and there
are no courts in the country"
When he heard that. O'Her1rin said.
Ellis 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
cDts and sent him home. l wonder
what he did with the beaut from Beaut-
vile. / suppose he handed her num-
Der and a shakedown in the domestic
and forgot about her
From Jack HarGins Arabian Nights"
by J. W. Scott. Copyright. 1908, by
Herbert B. Turner & Co., Publishers,
Boston.