The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18

! decided to Kill Us. and he said never
( YOU mind, your papa viii get out of this
{ al right, and he did.
/ The woman Went away with a let
/ ter she could not read but which she
! toIH dad now 10 write. and then the
/ bandits made dad do the cooking for
J the bunch. and he put 50 much salt
/ IN the food that it made them an
/ thirsty, and they sent one of the ban
I dts 10 vineyard. where he cot sey-
I eral pig skins fun of wine and brandy.
/ and that night they sung songs. and
made dad sing Hot Time and they
made me dance. and dad kept saving
Let's have one more on me- and thev
drank until the whole crowd was
/ Stupefledr and dad acted as though he
I was drunken than any of them but
/ when they all got asleep. and began
! TO cry. and wish I was dead. dad woke
I up and said Now I won't do a
thInS to your Greeks and he went
/ around to the sleeping bandits and
took all their knives and an their
money, and ne took off the petticoat
/ they had given him to wear and tied
! blanket around his waist and he
. tied their legs together with strings
. Oft the saddles of the mules and lust
/ before daylight on the second morning
dad and 7 got on the biggest mule and
started down the trail, and when we
struck level ground we mauIed that
mule and he got a move on him and
went across that prairie on a hon
skip and jump, and only touched the
high places
Along towards noon we saw dust
In the road ahead, and pretty soon we
met a mess Of Greek soldiers. with the
American consul at the head. and told
them where the bandits were, drunk
and with their legs tied. and the con-
sui and some soldiers went back to
Athens with us, and the rest of the
troops went on after the bandits We
got 10 Athens before night and found
the women under guard i'm the con-
Suls office. and when she saw dad.
and he told her how he had fixed the
bandits, she cried and said she wasn't
10 blame, and wanted to hug dad, but
he said Nay nay, Pauline and
then she said he was no gentleman
because the consul did not pay the ram
som, and dad told her he wrote to the
consul not to cough up, and she looked
mad at dad and said: You think YOU
are smart, don't your and then she
was taken TO jail, and dad and / took
an account of the stuff we robbed the
bandits Of. and found we had several
hundred dollars, and besides. dad filed
a claim against Greece for half a mil
lion dollars, for lacerated feelings. and
left 1t with the consul TO collect. 50
II you ever hear Of American warships
gong to Greece, you viii know what is
the matter.
The next morning the soldiers came
into Athens with the bandits tied to
mules and they threatened to kill dad
on sight. SO we skipped out. but dad
got his pants back, and so he didn't
have to sail with petticoats on, but
whenever dad meets 4 Greek gentle
man around home here il is all / can
do 10 keep him from rObbinE the
Greek say. give me another slice of
that cheese and the bad boy got UD
and stretched himself and yawned
The old gToceryman looked at the
bad boy for a minute. and then said:
Either your father ought 10 be in
the penitentiary or else YOU are the
coRdemndest liar in America"
Copyright, 1865. by Joseph B. BowIes. |