The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-27
PERSIAN TALES.
The King Who Had Troubles of Hi.
Own, But Came Out All Right.

One day the high and mighty
Ahmed Ben Abdullah. ruler Of six
teen moons and seventeen kinds of
weather, walked in his palace grounds
to smoke a cigar after breakfast. For
a time his look was serene and his
feelings complacent, but of a sudden
he paused, and such a thunder-cloud
came to his brow that his courtiers
held their breath in terror. He strug-
gled with himself for a full minute
before he could speak, and then he
said:
by the seven kinds of tar made in
North Carolina, but where is Pat Muir
ply, my royal counsellor from Cork
Some of you get him around here
within five minutes or heads will
fall"
There was instant scurrying around
after Murphy, who was found at his
breakfast, and when he had FASTENED
to put himself on view he was ac-
costed with:
Dog of a Spalpeen, but knowest
what has happened?"
Hath some creditor dared to ask
your mightiness for what thou owest
him?" softly replied the r. c..
mo. What creditor would dare
dun the ruler over 100000 people :?
I only wish that some of them would,
as that would give me an excuse to
behead them and close the account"
But there has been no further
ers for their back pay?"
''It is not that, Murphy. Tt is that
news came to me yesterday that old
Two-And-Six, who rules over dinky
calls himself a devil of a fellow. has
gone at it and got waterfall $50 feet
high, and is Dragging about it,
But he lives in a country where
hills and waterfalls abound" explain
ed Murphy. eff we had a hill $50
feet high here I would have you a
three-ply waterfall in no time at ALL"
But is old Two-And-Six to crow
over me because have no hill? Why
haven't a hill? What have you been
doing for these last three years that
you let some one get ahead of me?
BY my whiskers, but I'll give you
three days to make me a hill and
waterfall, and if you are one hour
behind time off goes that Irish head
.;Abdullah the Great" said Murphy.
after scratching the back of his head
for awhile, 1--WE haven't got enough
money in the treasury to build hill
ten feet high"
"Then borrow it. you relation of
dog!' 49,.
dom to lend 1 will borrow, but I'd
like to hear his name"
Then go forth and take what you
will by force"
'"That has been played so often that
>
BLOOD and bones, but do you mean
to tell me that I can't nave a hill and
a WATERFALL, who have made the
sun stand on her head and the moon
dance a jig?"
Here's the point o mighty but
hard-up boss of half the universe. We
have no dough to create a hill, and
our ten-foot piece of garden hose won't
make much of a fountain, but the peo-
pie believe in you, don't they?''
"Of course. If I said the sun was
blue they'd believe it. That is. if they
didn't off would come their heads
Then if the people believe you have
a waterfall 200 feet high, the news
makes him feel bad. I'll rig up the
hose to squirt a stream three or four
feet high. Wen get a crowd to look
at it and tell 'em it's a waterfall pour
ing down from a height of 200 feet.
Not a man will say nay, and we have
our hill, our waterfall and our re-
venge, and it don't cost a cent. Thou
art the wisest man on earth, o Ruler
but here is one little point that has
escaped you. What a man believes is
fact to him. and if he is going to
lose his head because he don't believe
you can make him believe any old
thing you want to. Do you savoy? ?"
Murphy, do you believe there is
a hill 200 feet high before us with
Niagara Falls pouring down its side?"
solemnly asked the king.
For sure, and If we don't get into
the palace and start a game of poker
we shall be wet by the spray
Then come to my arms old boy,
and if it ever happens that I think it
wise policy to separate your head from
your body I'll pledge my word to have
it done SO slick that you'll walk
around for ten minutes before know |
ing that that mug of yours isn't in |
it's usual place.