The Washington times., 1906-03-04
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Of events, would be flooded in a very
few hours by anything over a
simple rainfall, so we may put down
Jezrahiah as a humbug instead Of a
genuine, first class weather prophet
and fOrecasteT. This is simply a
lucky guess or perhaps merely
threat 10 eXtort money. through
fears Of flood, from the farming
community. He might as wen
have predicted blizzard,
however. if he expected to
get anything out Of this COM
munity. III bet twenty-five gerahs,
that, in spite Of his prediction in his
old almanac for this month. that
ne is as much astonished as anybody
IN our valley at the size Of this food.
) D. m.-Grear uprOaT among the
animals below Ham hastened down
and found tnat all this afternoon
they have been debating and making
resolutions and were now about 10
noId an election 70 decide who Should
be king and boss The chimDanzee
and the kangaroo had been appointed
by the goat, who was chairman. 10
act as tellers and they were just TAX
ing the ballots, all the animals pass
ing up between the two, as Ham ap-
peared. He did not interfere but
hurried right up TO tell Pop what
was happening and Pop hustled
down at once after putting on his
captain s cap. He jumped right in
among the astOnished passengers
and started in TO make a Iong speech
TO them.
Said he: MY respected friends
ana fellow-tre veleTs-to-be. il is but
right and proper that at the outset
Of our pleasant companiOnship on
board this vessel of mine. ] should
make plain 10 ali what our relation
ship is and viii be unless the uufoI-
seen happens. ] do not care really
who Is your boss as long as il is one
Of the Noah family but as I am
still, and hope to be for some years.
the boss of tnat worthy clan / con-
slider IL due 10 nay standing In the
community TO be also your boss. To
make long story short and avoid
possible misunderstanding I want
10 state that I do not wish 10 inter-
fere IN the least with any innocent
amusement or pleasant diversion on
board but I desire TO have il dis
tinctly understood and acted upon
that one Noah, plain q. ". Noah and
nobody else, Is boss OF this outfit.
III any one OF you happens to have
different notion now is the ACCEPT
ed time fer MIN 10 step forward and
announce II and IT viii be settled
right. here and now. / forgot. in
the pressure Of business. TO make A
Tu!e that politics is barred on this
boat. Let ne make il now. J viii
stand for football. negro minstrelsv.
hazing and bar6knuckle fights but
no politics in mine, I want 10 an
Dounce that ] am king. general man
aser. director. Tingmaster. cOmm0-
dore. dictator. car. board of trustees. .
supervisor. oEeTSeer. superintendent,
admiral and emperor, as well as all
other titles that I may have over
looked, also umpire and referee. on
this ark. Let Us all remember this
and in the future everything viii
be harmony and plain sailing. If il
IS forgotten there viii be something
doing"
There was : deep and solid silence
when Pop ceased speaking. but after
a moment the non growled softIv.
very softly, with Il hide0us grin and
NhackeT baTked very loudly. but I
think he was applauding Pops
splendid speech. never would have
dared TO be 50 sassy and address a lot
or tCOthed and ciawed animals so
boldly, but Ham says il is all in the
human eye. I will bet a gerab thai
If this is the truth, Ma viii have
them al under control in TWO weeks
TO- she can manage Pop, their man
aeer, with one i0oiz.
me water Is four fathoms deenl
took the boat when Ma wasn't
looking and nobody else and pushed
off Found that rowing isn't pqsv.
II was Ions time before I cOuId
make her move the way / wanted 10
and then l was cut Of sight of the
ark. was scared some. Bur as
Pop says, the way to do thing IS
to DO 1t and so I kept on rowing and
pretty soon j came to- the Summit
House on At HOTeb. The first thing
! saw was Mr. T0biah. the shoe
polish millionaire, sitting on toD of
the rife gallery roof away of from
the hotel and he yelled to me. III
boy A hundred thousand sheckefs'
yes, ten talents, if you'll take me
off,
Where do you want to oo2v
asked. TO the hotel" he replied.
I've been out here three days and [
want a drink" He wouldn't let on
that he was scared, bui he was shak-
ing all over and it is no wonder. for
the rife gallery was already tumb-
ing to pieces under him. So [ fer
Fied him over to the porch of tbs
hotel and landed him and the. ne
asked ne If ] had change for a
twenty-talent coin? After all ha
cnly gave me a measly hundred
sheckeI bill Said that was plenty
for a kid. / told him that he was
welcome 10 Eeep his money for il
would only sink him all the sooner
and he said 1 was an impudent
scoundTel and that ne would have
my case attended TO when this storm
cleared off
I said. You'll have all you can
attend to before it stops! It's only
about begun now,"
Copyright. Walt McDougau. All rights re-
served ,