The sun., 1907-04-07

haythen gods s-who was fighting with the
little lad Kama.
Kama had a bow made Of sugarcane
and his cord was a string Of bees and ms
arrows were all tipped wild flowers. 80
wicked was that little divvn Kama, the
God Of Love, that the strongest warriors
couldn't stand up forninst him II he wanst
got a shot at them. He used to fly around
in the moonlight on the back OF parrot,
wild a hundred young gur-rls dancin' in
front OF him and wild hummin' birds hyin'
around his head
But how did such little lad kill thin
big fellows, Mickey2' said his father.
BY shootin' thin wild an arrow poisoned
wild love powders, said the boy.
Mr.. Finn listened with impatience to this
story of NEUROLOGICAL love and murder.
Then he said:
Il am not interested in thin fairy stories,
Mickey. What want TO know is whether
there were ever amy real fightin' lilies in
the wurrld. Flowers that a man wore in
his coat or on his hat TO make him brave
in war or in a scrap of amy kind?"
"Shure there were replied the boy.
The fightin' min Of the world have always
worn a flower TO give them strength in
battle.
There were ould fightin' min in England
called Plantginnits, who wore sprigs OF
brooms in their hats whn they went 10 COM
init murder in droves, and nanny a good
Irishman wore a shamrock whin his head
had been cut of. But the boss fightin'
flower has always been the fower-de-lis-
the flower of the lily-an' that was water
lily.
@In the year IiIO a great French king put
it on his helmet whin he wint to capture the
city OF Jerusalem from the Saracens wild
Godfrey de Bouillon. the man that lnvinted
the soup, and Richard the Lion Hea rted, who
couldn't be frightened"
And what was he like'' said Mr. Finn
eagerly.
"Oh. he was great fightin' man. replied
the boy. He was broad across the shoul-
ders as I he length Of wo axe handles, and he
carried a battleaxe that was like a butchers
cleaver. He'd cut a man from the shoulders
to the waist wild wan blow, and there he was
on the ground GRIMM in pieces
And did he wear the hour-de-what-d'-
you-call-it, Mickey"
"Shure he did said the boy, But there
were thousands OF Frenchmin that wore il
after that. II was called the Flower Of the
Virgin. and King Garcia formed an Order Of
Spanish Knights with the strength Of it,
Thirty knights covered with iron clothes
were bound together by vows 10 die fiRhtin'
wild the Moors. And whin they wanted to
defend their castles in the ould days by
breakin' the legs Of calvary, they drove
stakes in the ground half buried in he earth,
and these stakes were called lille because
they were thought to look like the stem OF
lily.
But ! don't want to talk about such a
beautiful flower bein' used as a watchwOrd
for murderin' min," concluded the boy.
You're too softhearted. Mickey said
his father reprovingly. Take pickaxe
or a slab, I say. il you can't lick in any
other way"
"Id rather say somethin' about the Vic
toria Regia in Demarra." said the boy
what do you think about a lily flower
fifteen inches across the ball OF il and
leaves six feet wide? So thick an strong
are they that they will bear the weight OF a
man standn' upright
Were they fght--'
"Or the Spirito Santo lily" continued the
boy, sometimes called the Paradise flower
found at Panama, where they are buildin
the canal These flowers are like vase
When you open cup in the lily you will see
a thing that looks like dove, wild its head
turned backward. 'Tis a beautiful thing
entirely and"
Bother the lilies" said Mr. Finn. "Shure
I'm tired OF hearin' about them. hear
the goat In the young onion bed. Go and
drive him out O. that. | don't want him
m ha snoiIip' his braath