The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-07

there IS no other country. and they are
happy and work from choice.
/ always knew the Belgian guns that
sell i'm America for II shillmgs and kill
at both ends but I never knew they
made things here that were worth any
thing. but dad says they are better fixed
here for making everything used by
civilized people than any country on
earth. and I am glad to be here. cause
YOU get notice when YOU are going To he
robbed. They ring a bell here every
minute to give YOU notice that some
one is after the coin, SO when YOU hear
a bell ring IT, you hang OH 70 your
pccketbook. you don't lose.
This is the place where There was
% sound of revelTy at night. and Bel
GUMS capital had gathered there
You remember the night before the bat
tie Of Waterloo, when Napoleon Bona
T-artc got his You must remember
about il. odd man. just when they were
right in the midst of the dance. and
soft eyes looked love to eyes which
Spazc aSaiu." and they We're taking a
champagne bath. inside and out when
suddenly the opening guns of Waterloo
twelve miles away, began To boom. and
the post. who was present, said, But
hush. bark deep sound like rising
kueli" and everybody turned pale and
Uegan To SJamupdc. when the floor man
car ON the stony street ON with the
dance. let JOY be uucoudned, no sleep
till morn. when youth and pleasure
meet. To chase the glowing hours with
flying feet"
Well sir. this is the place where that
ball took place. which is described i'm
the place I used To speak I'm school. but
2 never thought 7 would he here. right
where the dancers got & il the neck
When dad found thar the battlefield of
Waterloo was only few miles away
Hc hired a wagon and we went out
there
We'll. sir. % ali the frauds wa have
ruu across ON this trip the battlefield
of Waterloo is the worst. When the
farmers who are rai@ilS barley and
baIed hay ON the battlefield. saw us
coming they dropped their work and
made a rush for AS. and one fellow
yelled something I'm the Belgian
language that sounded Ike. Il saw
them first" and he got hold OF dad and
me. and the rest stood OFF like Tot OF
hack drivers that have seen q customer
fail into the hands Of another driver
and made up faces at us, and called the
farmer who had caught us the yilest
names. They said we would be skinned
10 a finish by the lakiT who got us, and
they were right
He showed Us from the high hill
where the different portions of the bat
tie were fought and where they caught
Napoleon Eunauarte. ana where Blu
cher came uD and made things hum i'm
the German language. and then he took
us off L. his farm where the most OF
the relics were found. and began to sell
things TO dad. until he had filled the
hind end of the wagon with bullets and
grape shot. sbeT1 and hayouets. old
RUSTY rifles and everything dad want
ed. and we had enough 60 fiji a museum.
and when the farmer had got dads
money We went back To- Brussels, and
got our stuff uuloaded at the hotel Say.
when we came To look il over we found
two rusty Colts reviewers. and guns
Of modern construction. which have
been bought ON the battleGelds i'm all
countries. and properly Tusted TO sell
to tourists / showed dad that the re-
z-ojver was unknown ar the time of the
battle of Waterloo. and that every ar
ticIe he had bought was "A fraud the
sabcrs havinE been made I'm America.
before the war Of the rebellion. and
dad was mad, and gave the stuff TO
the uorter of the hotel. who charged
dad seven dollars for taking it away.
Dad kept one e-cOTlered hat that
the farmer told him Bonaparte lost
when his horse stampeded with him,
and II had drifted under a barbed wire
fence. where IL had lain until the day
before we visited the battlefield. Say.
that hat is just as good as new.and dad
saws il is worth ali the stuff cost. but 1
would not be found dead wearing il.
cause il is aE out OF style.
We have seen the king Of Belgium.
and actually got the worth Of our mon
ev. He is an old dandy. and looks
Ike a Philadelphia Quaker, only ne 10