The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-01
SNAIL EATERS DUPED
BY TRICKY VENDORS
Sellers, Too, Chagrined to
Find shameless Ones"
Appropriating Trademark.
NO GUARANTY ON SHELL
Only Gourmets Can Tell Ex-
act Location Where "Petit
Girls" Is Born.
10 GUARANTY ON SHELL
Special cable 70 The Trlbune.

Special Cable 10 The Tribune.
PARIS, Nov. 30.-Of the shameless
ones who clothed tho common "pctit
girls in the habit Of the noble FVig-
neron. de Bourgogne' and sent him to
adorn gourmets' tables, of the namcless
horror Of the gourmets that what they
ate was all other than it. seemed, Of
the noble syndicate that arose and de
clared its intent TO make war against
the shameless ones, and give to the
gourmets the snuils they deserved and
paid for, have already written.
Uarkep further TO the saga of the
snail
When the good news Of impending
deliveranccs from uarneless doubts and
fears was told to the gourmets they
folded white hands and offered pray
ers for the success Of the syndicate
of the snail. And they noted on their
tablets the legend which was to be in
scribed on the banner OF their cham
pions. 1t chanccd that upon this lc
gend lighted also the eye Of the perfid-
ious, even those who clad the conlmon
"petjt gris' in the habit Of the noble
"'Vigneron de Bourgogpe,' and in
their breasts dark design WAS born.
There arose certain among their num-
bor who went to tho Prefecture, and a
"functionnaire received them.
"What do you here?" said the func-
tionnaire.
because said tho shameless
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slopes of France, and furnish it forth,
Il dish for kings tables, let Il name
be given to US. and to noue other,
which shall say that thus and thus VIC
do " And they named the name of the
legend which the new syndicate, the
gourmets eight champions, had de
clared abroad that it would-prescntly
inscrbe on its banners.
Yea. - said the 'functiopnaire, -
assuredly the name shall be yours,
And they paid the fec
Then the champions, tho gourniets,
protectors of the eaters Of the snail,
drew near one day to the Prefecture.
And the "functionnaire received
them.
"What do YOU horeg' said the
" fuuctIonnairc.
''We tend the snail. F" they said, "on
the fair slopes Of France, and furnish
it forth. u dish for kings tables. -
Nay, varily,' said the 'function-
nairc. ''ye who tend the snail be
many. Howbcit, the doors are open TO
all. Howbeit, thcre is one legend which
ye may not inscribc upon your ban
ners. - And he named the name at
which the champions os the snail had,
after much thought, arrived, ''f'or that
legend said the "'functionnaire, %
''the fee has already been paid
Then the champions Of the gourmets
hcheld that the enemy had been before
them and stolen their fair device; and
they bit the lip of veXation, and said
foolish things. sume of which may be
found in the Dictionaries of argot. They
said also: 1--WE would call ourselves
hero and now the Union of the Genu
inc Snail on payment of n fee. -
To which flag viii the suail-rearcr
and snail-sellers rally-to The ''Syndi-
cate of the Snail" the flag Of the
shameless ones. whose practices are
evil, hut whose banner is fair; or to
the others, whose banner blazons forth
Il righteous iudignation1 II matters.
perhaps. to the gourmets. But it is all
the same to the snail.