The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-06-20
Seats of the
Naughty
Being the Gloomy Story of
a Travelling Snowman
By o. HENRY
Copyright. 1907. by the Mcclure
company.

have found out our Bombay OF tn
west. and few be their trails that d.
not lead down Broadway on their jour
ney for to admire and for TO see
II chance should ever lead you nea
hotel that transiently shelters som'
one of these splendid touring grandees
| counsel you to seek Lucullus Poll
among the republican tuft hunters tina
besiege It's entrances.
| first saw Mr.. Polk coming dowr
the steps of the hotel at which sojourn
ed his highness the gaekwar Of Baro
da. most enlightened Of the Mahratta
princes, who Of late ate bread and sal
in our metropolis of the occident.
Lucullus moved rapidly as though
propelled by some potent moral force
that imminently threatened to become
physical. Behind him closely follow
ed the impetus-a hotel detective.
Safe on the sidewalk, Lucullus Polk
turned and shook a freckled fist at the
caravansary. and, to my JOY, he began
to breathe deep inyective in strange
words:
rides in howdahs, does he?' he
cried loudly and sneeringly. Rides
on elephants in howdahs and calls
himself princeI Kings-yah! Comes
over here and talks horse till you
would think be was a president and
then goes home and rides in private
dining room strapped on to an ele-
phantr'
| murmured few words OF sympa
thy.
THE last one solo, continued the
displeased one. was TO that three
horse tailed Turkish pasta that came
over a year ago. Five hundred dollars
he paid for it, easy"
AS soon as Lucullus Polk got cool
enough | picked him up, and with no
greater effort than you would employ
in persuading a drowning man to
clutch a straw. l inveigled him into
accompanying me TO Il cool corner In
dim cafe.
And it came to pass that men serv-
ants set before US brewage. and Lucul-
lus Polk spake unto me, relating the
wherefores of his beleaguering the
antechambers of the princes OF the
earth.
did you ever hear Of the S. A. and
A. p. railroad in Texas? Well. that
don't stand for Samaritan Actors Aid
Philanthropy. was down that way
managing a summer bunch of the gum
and syntax chewers that play the
idlewild parks in the western ham,
let's. OF course we went to pieces
when the soubrette ran away with
prominent barber of Beeville. l don't
know what became of the rest OF the
company. / believe there were some
salaries due, and the last | saw OF the
troupe was when | told them that 40
cents was all the treasury contained
/ say | never saw any OF them after
that. but heard them for about TWEEN
ty minutes ] didn't have time TO look
back. But after dark ! came out OF
the woods and struck the 5. A. and
A. p. agent for means of Transports
ton. He at once extended to me the
courtesies of the entire railroad. kind
" warning me. however, not to get
aboard any of the rolling stock.
about 10 the next morning | steps
off the ties into village that calls
itself Atascosa City. bought thirty
cent breakfast and ten cent cigar
and stood on Main street jingllng the
three pennies In my pocket-dead
broke.
"All of a sudden. while | was stand
Ing on the edge Of the wooden side
walk, down out of the sky falls two
fine gold watches into the middle or
the street. One hits a chunk of mud
and sticks. The other falls hard and |
flies open. making fine drizzle Of lit
tie springs and screws and wheels. l
looks up for balloon or an airship; |
but, not seeing any, l steps on the /
sidewalk TO investigate.
but | hear couple OF yells and see /
two men running up the street In leath-
or overalls and high heeled boots and
cartwheel hats. One man is six or
eight feet high. with open plumbed
FONTS and heartbroken cast OF coun-
tenance. He picks up the watch that
has stuck in the mud. The other man.
who is little. with pink hair and white
eyes. goes for the empty case and says.
Il win Then the elevated pessimist
goes down under his leather leg hol-
sters and hands n handful or twenty
dollar gold pieces to his albino friend
..rhe little man hustles away with
kind of Swiss movement toward jew
elrv store. The heartbroken person
stoops over and takes telescope vie"
of nv bahardaShpry
".Them's mighty slick outfit OF ha-
biliments you have got on. Mr.. Man.
saws he. I'm bet boss You never ac-
, uired the right. title and interest In
and to them clothes in Atascosa CITY
"'Why, no. says |. heing ready
enough 10 exchange personalities with
this moneyed monument OF melancho-
". Il had this suit tailored from spe-
cisl line of coatericks. yestures ana
paintings In St Louis. Would you
mind putting me sane says !. on this I
watch throwing conteStT
"'AIe and George, he EXPLAINS, are ,
m from the ranch. having spell OF
fun. Up TO last month we owned four
sections OF watered grazing down on
the san Miguel. But along comes one
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