

WASHINGTON, D. G., MONDAY, FEBRUARY ?, 1916
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board one schooner! Why there has been
foul play some where, gentlemen! there
has been foul play! There may be Mexi.
can pirates on the coast--this thing should
be looked into, conference.-the authorities
should be informed Of it! Are there any
wounds Oh the bodiess Did you ascertain
any Of the facts? "


g Why the fact is" said the gentleman
who applied the spotless cambricl to his
face, g the fact is, that the sight was tUc
much for US; wa did not know bur some
Of them might be Served up to US in our
soup to-moifow--that is, we feared the
sight might affect our nervous system in
such a manner that II would Tre5ent US
from taking our soup to-day. We, how
ever, noticed no gashes.o or wounds on them.
In fact we learned, without enquiring how
they came there, that they were all taken
up some place on the shore or beach Of the
Gulf and if they were not dead at the
time, there were but little signs of life in
them, and that the inclernency Of the
weather as the schooner came up the river
did their business"


Bless my soul I" said their friend
8 It's mysterious business. must tell
the Maycr-tell the Coroner; and tell
Stringer, the reporter Of the Delta--ht
must have the first news"


I" Had you not better take a little some
thing before you gos" said joker No. 2
" it is now eleven o'clock, and a little
brandy and water in such cases is recon-
mended by the faculty."


"Egad, believe it'll do no harm,' . said
the gentleman, whose very humanity made
him credulous, !" it is an excellent antidote
against offensive effluyia, is brandy and
water.''


They all went into st. Louis and Ii
quored


!" All, by-the-by," said the humane gen.
tleman, as, they were taking their drinks
there is the Mayor, I'll inform him Of thiI
tragic affair at once"


Break it to him by degrees" said ht
with the kid gloves.


"Oh, I'll not startle him with a sudder
disclosure said the humape gentleman
/" iii ask him to walk over the levee, and
say that ! want him to look at a cargo o
oranges, or lemons, or turtles, or some
thing Of that sort"


Ah," says joker No. 2, that'll do
an excellent idea--yes, say you want him
to see cargo Of turtles-turtles are the
ticket for soup"


The humane gentleman whispered some.
thing very mysterious to the Mayor, ant
in few minutes they were seen walking
down to the levee arm in arm, They hur
ried on board the schooner Fancy, from
Nassau, and there, truth to say, thirty-twt
dead bodies, all strewed on the deck, me
their eyes But--the reader will remem
ber we say bnt--bm they sOere the bodies Q
thiriy-t,uo dead turtles, which, having GO
out side of the tropics, died of the cold a,
they were being brought up the river.
The humane gentleman having seen tha
he was severely sawed" proposed tc
give an oyster and champagne supper t.
all hands as a bribe to inviolable silence
Mr.. Stringer heard oft, however, and ST
lence on such matters is not a word to b.
found in his vocabulary.-N. o. Della.