The Washington herald., 1914-01-11
Persian Tales
There Are Things that King Does Not Know

I They talk of little else"
What do they sayy'
They are bowling about the taxes
Yes"
And about his extravasances?"
Yes
"And about his foIlies?'
YES"
And they call him a dub of a King"
Dub? Dub?" unused the King. IT
know not what IS a dub"
It's squirt of a feller. It's bass
wood man. It's a haif-lunatic, half-fool. I"
And what is your opinion, my friend %
Mine? Oh, 1 dunno. God made the
King and God made the fool, and IL I
should take sides I'd be sure to hurt
somebody's feelings?
THE KING MEETS a PEASANT.
The King passed on mile further and
saw peasant at work in his field. He
climbed the fence and approached the
man and said:
Friend, are your taxes too high?"
They are a terrible burden" was the
reply, but IL they were less I'd have
more money to spend on whisky"
DO You think the King is extrava-
gant?'
well. il was rather extravagant of
as the man who sold the dog donated the
money toward erecting spire on the
Baptist church / think We may call that
a pretty good Offset
And how about the Kings follies?"
IF he didn't have any the people that
now berate him would spread the report
that he was stupid"
Would you have another King in
place Of him?"
ssThara iS avap rhopoa that a,atbar
might be worse"
Then you have no complaint to
maker
why. the potato bugs are unusually
thick this season"
Yes, i noticed that"
But as / have an unusually large
number of turkeys to feed upon them
We'll say that / haven't no real cause to
kick"
THE KING MEETS A WOMAN.
Again the King passed on. and in time
he arrived at a PEASANTS gate and saw
a woman on the doorsteps with her knit
ting in hand.
Good woman. have you seen the King
pass this way?" was asked.
"Lal, no." was replied.
Il understand that he is abroad to-
day to talk with his subjects and ask
what changes in his rule they wish him
to make"
why make any?' she asked.
But they say that taxes are too
high"
THAT is our excuse for standing our
doctor bill on"
They charge the King with extrava-
gance."
Don't all of us. even when We are |
hard up, take in the movies?"
But met a man today" persisted the
King. who contended that our Gracious
Ruler was half-fool."
IF he has lost half his wits, stranger,
there is an offset. 1t is a fact that every
donkey in the country is getting more
brains every dayi"
But the Kings follies?''
His father hadn't folly, and yet he
almost ruined the empire
TIE KING AND AGRICULTURE.
The King walked or for another mile !
and then came to a peasant moving |
grass.
IF your taxes were not so high you
wouldn't have to work SO hard was
as the mower stopped for a
to wipe his perspiring brow.
But fc be going to every durn circus /
that came along"' was the reply.
DO -ou think it would help things to
have a new King?'
And do you think ii would help things
TO have a new worId?" was asked in
return.
The King was debating this question in
MS own mind when a humble bee alighted
on bush near him. Without realizing
what he did the Ruler reached out and
picked the insect OF his perch and at the
;an.s time said:
". have heard II said that the King wasl
more than half"
II haven't laughed the peasant, as
he King danced around and made use
If every swear word in the Persian lam
yuage. What i have heard and what j
nave jus: seen leads me to believe that
he King is all fool,' 1,
But 1 am he King himself" was !
shouted. Il
Then permit me to change me languageI
/ say that while you may be a devil of I
King. you are certainly DANCED poor