The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14

1 call it., says he, if you're so blamed pertilSlar, though it ain't spelt that way. | It's spelt dogs, only with an 'e." | Bill Gladox,' says l, for an unedu- | cated man you are tn most ignorunt
 ever see. Do you mean to tell me you
 aint never heardn tn Dodges of Venice that has ben mayors of tn town for th | last 100 years or more?'
 "'No, aint,' says he, 'an' no one else | neither. Ther' ain't any sech folks there. | Dodge aint an Eyetalian name nohow. ] It b'longs in Connecticut. Not but what | ther's few mebbe In New York an | Rhode Island, but not In Italy, not by l derned sight
 q was just startin in to tell him what
 I think of his schoolin, when somebody screams. 'Aw, quit yer k'ddin', quit yer | kiddin', quit kiddin'.' I gives jump, an | so does Bill an then we both of us bust out laffni. Blamed if 1t warn't one O them birds of paradise, that had thawed out mite, an was jest tryin his voice to find if it worked all right. 'Thunderationr says Bill. We'll have
 to gag tn bunch of 'em if they're. goin'
 to squawk like that
 Mot down in tn hold they won't, says I, where it's god an dark. They Il be as quiet as mice.
 , An then I proceeds to explain tn | game to Merryvingia, lettin' on as how l me an Bill was angels in disguise ap- ! p'inted special to deliver i'm outern th' hands of his enemies, an to say how 1 providenshul it was for i'm he had found us.
 All you have to do, I says to him, is ject to lay low for while till we contrives to stumble on a vehicle of es- cape for ye, which we won't be long a-doin' of an then-Caracoles!- do +ba rin rot th' Ia
 chapter with red fire burnn' on tn deck,
 an them bird fanciers we're so sot az inst hull down in tn offin', with tn wind
 outern their sails an every seam leaRin.
 "'Hope you handed it to i'm strong, says Bill when I had finished, an Merry. viniga sot grapIn' at me, an that you didn't say nothin' about tn sad partin' in stor for i'm
 "'Trus' me for that I says. never lets out a word. It'll be as complete a S prise party for i'm as ever was
 Well" he went on, it took lot more palaverin' afore convinces his ryal nibs of tn wisdom of our plans; but he agrees finally, an me an Bill pilots him down in the hold, an slows hlm away amidst lot of empty ile barrels. In course we takes tn parrots along too, an then l warns him most partiklar not to stir outern there on peril of his life.
 Me an my companero are takin' des- prit chances on your account says; for tn gendarmes is very likely on yer trail this minute, an If they finds as how we're aidn' an abettin your escape thisa way. it'll be muy peligroso for us, com prende2'
 'Merrs svngia lets on as how he does, an goes on to proclaim how grateful he Is for what he calls our unswervin' loyalty to tn crown in time of danger. For this act of devotion,' says he, I makes you twin rulers of Mesopotamia, an gives you each ten thousand ducats. Is 1t enough"
 "'Quite a-plenty, says l solemnly, and remember, yer r'yal highness. no mon key shines or wanderin's up on deck. You secretes yerself right here till me or Bill gives tn signal, an don't you have>nothin to say to nobody bout us nohow no matter what happens.
 'So then we goes on deck ag'in.' con- tinued the cook .an jest in time, too; for we hadn't morn stuck our heads above tn hatch when we sees tn old man CO., in down the dock an a policeman with him.
 Glory be-! says Bl, its Merryvingia he's after sure enough
 "'Well, what if he is?' says l. We'll fool him good an plentq. You let me do tn talkin',' I says, an it'll be all right
 :" MT. Gladox,' says tn capting to Bill when he an tn officer had clumb aboard, this man tells me he's after crazy Cubian what was seen last meanderin' about this wharf with cage of parrots which he stole from parties off'n tn
 Havana boat: an he thinks he's on my