The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-10

the central figure of the scene, "that
the King Of Gee-Whix had chopped
into the rubber-tree with his little gold
ak, drinking afterward a cupful OF
pure ouc-rubber-j Juice. you
know. 1t did not take him long to
repent Of his inadvertence. The re-
suits were what / may call most
extr'or' nary indeed. should Judge
the rubber-juice to have been OF very
high proof, indeed"
There seemed nothing precisely fit-
! ting to say to this. and the narrator
went on:
ITO be brief, i give you my word OF
honor. the king was turned into an
absolutely elastic person on the spoti
When he stamped his foot, he bounded
into the air. He's regular bounder.
anyway said Sir Harry. who would
always have his joke. And said he
to me, as I remember distinctly. ~
his conscience gets elastic, we're gone.
the same as Cook and Morgenstern.'
Sir Harry was a great wit.
Now, the more furious the king
became, the more helpless he became
as well. He simply bounced up and
down and around and about. Reigning
monarch. too--lack OF dignity-ali that
sort Of thing-must have been most
annoying to him. In all my travels
have never seen such a state of affairn
/ haven't. really"
Nor me. neither" said Doc Williams.
signing.
But what happened after that?"
said the foreman.
Everything that could happen"
said the other bitterly. Miss Sophie
a har ma Gir nd he .xfn
cess--the entire household suite OF the
King of Gee-whiz. were mad enough
to taste also of the juice Of this rubber
tree. 1t had the same effect upon them.
say to you, my friends. that then and
there the island of Gee-Whiz was in
habited by the maddest population
ever known in any possession OF Her
British Majesty"
They must have been a hard bunch
to hold" said the foreman. but what
happened then?"
Il am not quite clear as to all that
happened after that. know that was
the only sane man left on the island.
I reproved the others. and they resent
ed it. There was a great battle with
the natives one day, Of which / re-
member but little. I seem to have
been left insensible on the field. When
I recovered, / saw. dancing or across
the sea, the figures of all these different
persons except that of Sir Harry, who.
Of course, was with me, quite sober at
last. and quite dead. I do not know
from what cause. ! was left alone.
1T was thus, gentlemen. that I
acquired, by right, as think, my title
Of the King Of Gee-Whiz. which as
sumed after acting for a time Al
siceroy to Her British Majesty. After
ward. in some way which I do not
quite call to mind at present. 1 appear
% have been discovered. IL was short
y after that / received my decoration
beg your pardon" He flushed a dull
ed. 1T was nothing. OF course" said
he. AS TO saving Sir Harry. II was
,nly what any other fellow would have
lone in the Army, or the Navy-I
lont remember which.
so, gentlemen. I've told you my
tory as a gentleman should. I've been
Ieucedly down on my luck ever since
hen, as job said, and / can't tell You
eally / can't, how / happened to be
Iere and in this business where you
ound me. There's many a younger
on, in the Army or the Navy. who
.nocks about a bit and gets down on
is luck. I hope you'll not lay II up
gainst me, / do, indeed" His head
ropped forward on his chest. II was
tone broke" he whispered, "and I'd
OF a friend on earth"
A dozen hands motioned toward the
ar, and the piteous object before them
yas presently revived to a certain ex-
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