The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-03


| constructively, my kingdom is III,
| larger and 1 have more soldiers. $,
that. among kings Tutuila would b,
| regarded as vassal of mine, If
| lose. we will build a navy and go dowr
| ana conquer him. An expedition would
| be amusing and wholesome, after this
| confined life. So they played for the
| king constructive domains and the
king lost. Otherwise, We might never
have had this story.
Now, it came to pass. that shortly
after these events the gloomy prince
sought out Ri ~ One of the fine things
ABOUT Billy was that no matter what
! YOU might think about his ideals or
his morals, or his luck at poker. the
moment You had something YOU didn't
want, or wanted something you could
think OF, you instinctively put your
self in his hands. You didn't ask his
advice. but simply told him and cud-
died down in the assurance that he
would arrange it all. Such IS it to be
heaven born handy man
So the discontinued prince went to
Billy. Il don't know what it is" he
SAID, but l can't sleep half as long
as | want TO. and there's no fun in
eating, and no pleasure in swimming,
and I'm even sick of roker and aces
IN snort, said the prince, frowning
life is as dull ana cold and heavy
and gloomy as the big black boul-
der on my -grandfather's
grave"
rs it any particular one?" asked
Billy
ANY particular what?" demanded
the prince, with the very elimination
OF frowns.
Girls" said Billy, con2;sel. You're
in love-
I'm not" cried the prince. indig-
nantly
You remind me-" BLY, went on, "of
the way I felt one time down in San
Diego. There was a Mej:cana there"
But IS all that happened in the old
days and happened to Billy, we'n leave
it out.
she must have been a very pretty
girl, remarked the prince with bored
courtesy when Billy had finished, but
L don't want any girl I ever saw
Then" said Billy, II reckon We'll
just have to keep you joggin' till you
sight the one you do want. She's a. /
waitin' for you somewhere
Poker being tabooed by it's own linn |
the king showed a laudable |
Willingness to pay his Ceb+s or at least !
that part of them constituted by the
realm of Tutuila. the poor little king. |
The astute monarch created a navy at |
one fell stroke by Selling a swift little
schooner which was lying in the har-
Dor, and then he and Billy sat down
in the cool breakfast room and pro-
ceeded to fit out the expedition. From
down in the town the ad-
niral resurrected another white man,
named Todds. whom he appointed boat
swain, gunner, ouartermaster, master
alarms, and several other things.
But Mr.. Todds was not a man whose
spirit was to be broken by manifold re-
He sat on the house in
company with a bottle of gin and a
packet of cheroots. and superintendent
he slowing Of the munitions of war.
occasionally coming UP to the palace
o make report-very occasionally in
act, for Mr.. Todds was a pashful man,
IS he himself had often noticed.
Il amt like Billy" he would say. Il
cells uneasy-Iilte when l gets TO cruis-
n round too close to them kings, even
he 'eathen kind. I'm always afraid O. +,
pittin' on the floor. or somethink."
Ir. Todds, in truth, was a Briton, and
he odor of royalty fingered sweet in
lis nostrils. ii
So one Sunday morning Mr.. Todds
TODD unsteadily erect and red-nosed in
he breakfast-room. Il ave slowed,
our 'ighness'' Che accorded this title
o the admiral as hint that he was
ully alive to the new difference in their
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eek a matter O. one 'undered bales o
aliker. twenty ton o. taro, the 'arf
f powder, an five 'undred ninep'un'
bots, witch last" said Mr.. Todds, WHIP
lg his forehead with the back of his
and, lis beastly rolly and onreliab BILE
3rgo, your 'ighness."
"A very good weeks work. indeed"
lid the king. pleasantly. And now.
1miral. how much-how much-other
-uff do you think we shall need?" he
sked, with delicate circumlocution.
The admiral reckoned with a swift
ess which reused the royal admira-
on. Two hundred men, a bottle
ly, two hundred bottles. Four
onths' cruise, hundred an twenty
,ys. Two hundred an forty thou
}, twenty-four hun-give me bit o
sper Them ciphers gets fouled in
V head. Twenty-four thousand bot
IS, that's right TWO thousand cases,
ng. Better make it twenty-five hun
ed. in case any of us gets sick or =
ounded or anything" .
King Kilauea nodded assent to this
Sc provision against the possibilities 4
war
MI. Todds," said the admiral, sin
e mornin' you may begin stowin'
enty-five hundred cases O. trade
~
Mr.. Todds beamed as the full lus- 81
BUSINESS of these figures burst upon %
; ina gination. Then his face fell
here won't be room, your ighness," --
said. sadly.
.WeII then sal the admiral ttEou II 4