The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-17
PERSIAN TALES
a King Is Pretty Sure to Come Out
on Ton.

on Ton.
One day after His Royal Nibbs had
got away with four OF five cocktails
without being able to work the regular
New York taste up into his mouth, ne
threw the last empty glass at PIE
ture of Napoleon crossing the Alps m
a palace car and shouted
VhAt no. Enfendi McManus, but
where in Texas have you got to!
20. Illustrious Ruler of the sun, but
am here" announced Mac, as he en-
tered the room.
what is your position in this pal
u am your Price Minister, o. Mus
trious"
What salary do 1 pay you a year?''
You are supposed to pay me 20
thousand scud5.
But you don't get the plunks?"
Hardly ever.
What are your duties %
10 amuse and interest you and keep
You from being bored
well. / am bored now. and You
stir your stumps and furnish amuse-
ment or Off viii go your head
II was just abut to enter and sus-
Eest that your ajesty. who makes the
earth revolve might 90 a-hshing- 1.l
Hassan. the alderman, went over 70
the millpond yesterday and caught three
dozen perch"
What do you mean by going a-1sa-
ing2" asked the King with some slight
show Of interest.
why. you get a fish hook. line, pole
and bait and drop the hook into the
water In about minute you feel
I bite and YOU haul out a hVe-pOund bass
It's next door to circus for excite
ment''
BY George, but Wen take it in!
HUMP Yourself and get ready
The Prime Minister soon had things
ready and the two set out. A good
4 fishing spot was found and the King
} dropped I'm his hook and waited for a.
/ bite He waited in vain. The fish mad
J business elsewhere that day. When he
had sat on a log for an hour without
q nibble and his back had begun 10
ache he laid aside his pole and said:
II know Of q Prime Minister VINO
has lied like blazes to his King and viii
part with his head at sunrise"
"Illustrious. but how can I control
q the fish % protested Mac. as he began
to feel his hair curl
That's your look out. You said
there were fish here and that ] might
count on q good time. Everybody IN
town knows that we've gone nshings
and when I 20 back empty handed /
shall be guyed even by the sculliOns-
You've got a short bull neck, Nc
Manus. but the executicner viii cut
through it al one stroke.
t'IllustriOus, I am man who thinks 1
of two or three things at once. though /
j have never asked to nave my wages
raised on that account For instance, I
when you decided to come fishing 1 7
thought fit Just possible that you
wouldn't catch anything. I also real !
lied that the boys would be winlEing |
and grinning as we went homewards. |
7 still thought third thought. I /
thought TT would be just as well to go ]
around to the fish market and tell
Duggan to send down twelve of his !
largest trout. and here they are You
will ride home on the front platform
OF the street car and hold the string up
to View
"By the piper Of Pokersville, but
YOU are fly man. Mac" exclaimed the /
King. as a smile came to his face.
"A fly man with no flies on him, Q, |
''But hai While you have saved my /
honor you have also caused me to re-
member that FL Hassan was here yes /
terday and caught three dozen perch. /
while have not even had bite. He
will surely go around Dragging over /
meme, his King"
Fear not. IlustriOus," replied the |
Minister II put in an extra thought I
while I was about it, and though it
made my head ache hung on to it. It
IS that FL HRssan fshed in Royal
waters without permission.
BY John. but he did,"
re caught Royal fish against the
Hanged if he didn't"
And therefore his estate is confis-
Gated to the crown, and his head fails
into the basket. See2'
say, Mac. you have saved the situa-
tioni' exclaimed the gra teful King. and
from this hour your salary is doubled.
You won't receive half Of it. but you viii
see that I am grateful. and seeking to
honor YOU String up those fish and
let's be going, for everybody is lovely
end the goose honks high
THE KING AND THE TAXES.
Look here. Mac" said the King one
day as he and his Prime Minister were
walking in the garden among the Gu
cumbers. I'm about dead broke. If
any Of the boys should drop in and wans
to play game of poker, I'd have to
claim that 7 had headache"
Yes. the royal treasury is without 4