The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-06-22

Gus up about half the night. That was
to fool his bildlets little.
THE next day the drummer asked
the parrot, We'll, what happened last
night?' and the parrot said. There was
just peach Of a storm. it rained and
Numbered for further orders, and the
lightning kept me awake till morn
ing.
well, the drummer knew that was
shine, and he concluded the parrot
was big liar from the beginning; SO
he wrung his neck and threw him into
the alley. But he found out after
ward from the neighbors that the par
rot was all right. l don't propose to
have you skin me that way" the king
said.
But the grand vizier wasn't side
tracked by that. Nit. He said, oh,
well, parrot isn't much, and l don't
believe that guy wore crepe very long
for his. But supposing this mark Du-
gan is all right, what's killing a doc
tor? You're king; you oughtn't to
take any chances. Anyway, this is on
the level. II you find me crooked, you
can dish it up to me like a king |
used to know out in Kansas did to his
grand vizier."
What did the Kansas main skate
do?" the king asked.
well, this king turned the young
prince over to the grand vizier and
told the G. V. to stay with the kid all
the time and keep hunks off of him.
and SO forth; and the G. V. promised
to do it. But one day when the prince
was hunting, the G. V. squatted down
in shady place and let him go lose
himself. And while the prince was
cumming up and down the woods yell
ing for the main skate he bumped into
a good looking dame who was doing
a cry. The girl said she was the
daughter of an Indian king.
'Chickasaw, Choctaw or Sioux" the
prince said. Sioux the dame said, and
then she told him she'd been taking
horseback ride and had gone to sleep
and fallen off, and the horse had
moved on, and it was a long ways
home. Well, his princelets took her up
behind him and started for her shack,
and when they reached an old broken
down house she got off and went in
side, and he heard her say, Come,
kids, be happy. I've nice young guy
for your dinner-a fat one;' and then
lot OF kids said, 'Goody, mamma
Then it struck his royal nobs that
the dame was no Pocahontas at all,
but one of these ogresses, and he rolled
his hoop out Of there quick; and when
he got home he told the Kansas king
about the G. VS. letting him get lost,
and the chances he'd been taking with
the ogress. So the king had the main
skate hunted up and smothered right
off.
Nov, what l want to say is that I'm
watching this game for you closer than
that. This mark Dugan's medicine
may strike in next week, and then it'll
be all off with you"
Well, that Greek king was shy on
sense, naturally; most kings are, ex-
cept those in the euchre deck; and he
said: well. guess you're right.
don't need Dugan any longer, anyway,
and it'll be just as well to kill him"
So he sent for Dugan, and when Dugan
walked up to the desk, he said. "Reu-
ben, do you know why l hit the bell
for your"
init" said Dugan.
"Well, Dugan, 1 sent for you to take
your life," the king said.
Dusan was paralyzed, and he yelled.
What for? What did l do?"
WELL" the king said, Il got it on
good authority" land that was a grand
stand bluff, because that grand vizier
was the biggest liar on earth) that
you came here to get me, and I've con-
cluded to stop you right now"
Then the king said to the squeeze
who worked the chopper, Hit him
with the axe"
Dugan made . great talk then to get
away. But that Greek king was stub
born as . mule. He kept saying, init.
Nit. I can't have you around any