The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-11

But at that moment my chief
thought was food, so babe the medi-
cine man. who understood a few
words of English, to hurry through
the initiatory ceremony and have my
''chef" prepare me some food in
stanter.
AS / ravenously devoured the fruit
and baked ground nuts that were
brought to me, the old man in his
sadly damaged English informed me
how | came to be made king. 1t
seems that the monkey, which had
perched on my shoulder. was a sort
of personification of a god the ma
tivee worshiped, and which lived in
the jungle. When the monkey ran
out to me and climbed up my sleeve,
it was sign, so the natives thought,
that the god had chosen me for their
ruler.
Here ] was king, and it looked to
me as If had best exercise the prepo-
| gatives of my Office until had a
| chance to get back to civilization Be-
sides, was bit curious to see just
what kind of king / would make.
So | decided to stay on the job, for a
while anyhow.
HaegIing for Lions Teeth On.
That night retired to my palace,
hut built of weeds and grasses. My
| queens, whose apartments were in two
huts separated from the palace, did
not bother me that night but the next
morning, when / started out for
stroll, all sixteen crowded around.
The ringleader, or, l should say. my
supposed favored wife-she was the
latest, and In African social circles
that is the mark of beauty in women
acted as spokeswoman. l couldn't
understand a word she said, so called
my friend the medicine man and he,
with much kowtowing, interpreted.
Sennenneh-that was mJ favor
ties" name; it means peace" but l
think Sens father must have laugh
ed in ghoulish glee at the practical
joke he was playing on some poor.
unfortunate man when he named her
-Sennenneh called me the light of
the sun" and other pretty names.
was suspicious all the time that she
wasn't complimenting me for nothing,
and when she pointed to those lions
teeth that encircled her fat neck and
the fifteen others followed suit. knew
was in for trouble. There followed
lot of gibberish which was inter
preted as meaning that my sixteen
wives expected me to show my ap
probation of their devotion by provid
ing more, lions teeth.
Talk about man being henpecked
by one wife! had sixteen, and they
had the art of curtain lectures dowr
to about the finest point imaginable
OF course, i tried to stop them, but
there are some things that even {
king is powerless to do. and that wal
one of them.
Finally, with my head swimming
from the concentrated chatter of m,
harem, / fed to my throne. There
rested in peace. but when the fear o
fever in the night air finally drove mi
l back to the palace the whole haren
| vented its pent up spleen upon m.
! poor head.
| Henpecked Of Throne.
1t was terrible, and SO one night
| after / had been tempted to murde
| about sixteen of them-meaning all
| slipped out the palace door with m
rifle in my hand and silently fie
| through the forest-literally henpecl
ed off my throne.
/ had gone but a few yards whe
heard a noise behind me and tn
= sacred monkey came running dow
the path AS / picked it up SCUM
ID smote my ears that made my bloc
l. run cold. 1t was made by my sixtee
1. wives in hot pursuit of their desertin
o. husband. | took but ono glance t
n ward the clearing in front Of the pa
a ace; directly toward me the sixtee
ID were headed. Peace" in the lead.
ne waited for no more, but dived I'M
o. the thick underbrush and ran for n
an life. All night / stumbled throue
ST the jungle, with the monkey as N
only guide. The monkey was aga
he my salvation, and it led me to pal