The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23

ers' Association, one of the Wholesale
Druggists, one of the Amalgamated
Association of Railway Trainmen, one
of the Farmers Alliance, one of the
Butter and Cheeseman's convention,
one of the State Undertakers' Guild,
and half a dozen others in brass,
bronze and tin, on various colored
ribbons.
Say, do you know, when they ush-
cred us into the throne room at the
palace, and the little king, who look
ed like a student in the high school,
with dyspepsia from over study and
cake between meals, saw dad, he
thought he was the most distinguish
ed American he had ever seen, and
he invited dad up beside him on the
throne, and dad sat in the chair that
the queen will sit In when the boy
king gets married, and ] sat down on
a front seat and watched dad, Dad
had read In the papers that the boy
king wanted to marry an American
girl, who was the possessor of a lot of
money, SO dad began to tell the king
of girls in America that were more
beautiful than any in the world, and
had hundreds of millions of cold dol
lars and an appetite for raw kings,
and that he could arrange a match
for the king that would max him
lIdll any hlflS On any throne.
The boy king was becoming inter
ested. and 1 guess dad would have
had him married off all right, if the
king had not seen me take out a bag
of candy and begin to eat, when he
said to me: "Come up here, Bub.
and give me some of that" Gosh but
| trembled like leaf, but I went right
up the steps of the throne and hand
ed him the bag, and said Help
yourself, Bub."
Well. sir, the queerest thing hap
pened. | had bought two pieces of
candy filled with cayenne pepper, for
April fool, and the king handed the
bag to the master of ceremonies,
big Spaniard, all covered over with
gold lace, and if you will believe me,
the king got one piece Of the cayenne
pepper candy, and the Spangled prime
minister got the other, and the king
cheWed his piece first, and he opened
his mouth like a dog that has picked
up a hot boiled egg, and he blew out
his breath to cool his tongue and said:
"Whoosh," and strangled and sputter-
ed, and then the prime minister he got
his, and he yelled murder in Spanish
and the king called for water, and
put his hands on his stomach and had
a cramD, and the other man he tied
himself up in a double bow knot, and |
called for a priest, and the king said
he would have to go to the chapel, and
the fellows who were guarding the
king took him away, breathing hard |
and red in the face, and dad said to
me. You have poisoned the whole |
bunch of crowned heads, and we had
better get out" and so we went out
of the palace while the kings re-
tainers were filing him with ice water. |
Well, they got the cayenne pepper out
of him, because we saw him at the
bull-fight in the afternoon, but for
awhile he had the hottest box there
ever was outside of a freight train,
and if he lives to be as old as Mr..
Methuselah, he will always remember
his interview with little Hennery.
The bull-fght amt much. Bulls
come in the ring mad as wet hens, |
cause they stick daggers in them, and
they below around, and the Spaniards
dodge and shake red rags at them, and
after a bull has ripped a mess of |
bowels out of a. few horses, then a
man with a sabre stabs the bull be- |
tween the shoulders. and he drops |
dead, and the crowd cheers the as |
sassin of the bull, and they bring in
another bull.
Well, sir, dad came mighty near |
his finish at the bulI-fight. When the |
second bull came in and ripped the |
out of blind horse and the |
bull was just charging a man who was
to stab it, dad couldn't stand it any |
longer, and he climbed right over into |
the ring, and he said: Look ahere, |
you heather, / protest, in the name of !
the American Humane Society, against |
this cruelty to animals, and unless this |
business stops right here, l will have
this place pulled, and"
Well, sir, you would Of thought that
bull would have had sense enough to
see that dad was his friend, but he
probably couldn't understand what
dad was driving at, for he made a
rush for dad, and dad started to run
for the fence, and the bull caught dad
just like dad was sitting in a rocking
chair, and tossed him over the fence
and dads pants stayed on the bulls
horns, and dad landed in amongst
lot of male and female grandees, and
everybody yelled: Bravo, Americana
and the police wrapped a blanket
around dads legs and were going to
take him to the emergency hospital,
but | claimed dad, and took him to
the hotel. Yours
HENNERY.