Show i iI The Bad Boy and nd His Dad Arrive In n BOYThe I Cairo At the Hotel they Meet PECKS FECKS BAD tr BOY Some Egyptian Princesses I ABROAD BYGe By George W Peck J Egypt My Dear Old Irish lri h CIUllO I Gee but hut you ought to I see dad HIM aud I right now at a hotel waiting for fOI a chance at nt a L roum when I Ia A bride and groom room get ready rca to vacate it il and go u somewhere else This hotel js is j fun full of married people II who look seared whenever r there is Js i a tt n arrival and a nd I came caine pretty net near creating n u panic lv h going into the I of ot the Ule hotel where here a dozen dOKen couples coupe were sitting tUn around making nf googoo eyes at each tier ther and getting behind a 3 screen creen und in ivi a H disguised di su l voice shouting ur f know all aU Prepare to defend your yom 1 If The Phe women turned pate pale and some ome said At oAt last At last while others got t faint in hi the thc head and and some som fell on the th bosoms of ot their husbands and am said Dont shoot hout You see most of these wi w ives had liati husbands somewhere else If that might be looking f for or them I have warned dad lad not lint to be seen con conversing conversing with a woman or he may be behot behot behot hot by a hu husband who is i on her trail trailor or by the husband she has with her het Well Veil sir Hir of ot all 11 the trips we have lurve uple had anywhere the trip from Constantinople here was wa the limit For or two or three days day we were on oti dinky steamboats with Arabe rabe At ab Tur negroes n and all alt national Hies tI camping on deck full of fleas and with cholera gf on then them big bij enough 11 to pick like blueberries and und ajl of or the U passengers were dirty and ate t that would make a u dog lioK in ill Artier Amer Ameri i i ifa a go mad The lh dog biscuit that tha t arc are f d to American dogs dOKS would pass H 8 as a It ad d delicate confection on nit the menu of or any un steamboat l we struck and I T lud lial rather lie li down own in Jn a It barnyard with a tt w L dog Ilo Ilont for nt H It pillow arid and a t i castoff blanket from front H a 14 smallpox hospital for a bed bLI 1 ss l I Lyt It Takes Nine Baths To Get Down Downto to American Epidermis than to occupy the Hit bridal bridd chamber of any steamboat st we VC struck And then the ride rule across the desert lesert d ert erthy l Isy hy y rail to reach reah fairo Caho sire was WitS the worst in inthe inthe the world Passengers Pas in rags going to 10 Mecca or 01 Home sonie other place of or wor ivor worship ship eating cheese a L thousand yeans oki kl made from front goats milk and arid dug from front the pyramids I too late to save I surrounded t us U and the sandstorm blew through the cars laden with germs of the tite plague and stuck atuck to us so tight you get it off with sandpaper and ami when we got Kot here all we have had to do is to bathe the dirt off in layers It takes nine nuts baths to get down to American epidermis elid and the last bath has hs a IL it to go with it and a u athing athing thing they scale with But we are ats all aJI right now no with rooms in iii the hotel and aird rested and when we go so hunt home we weare e eare are ae going to l he h e salted down clown and given chloroform and shipped as mummies Dad insists that he will never cross a n nI desert I tt or an n ocean again arain mid and nd I 1 dont know kno what is to of MS us uc Any Anyway way war wa we are going to enjoy ourselves we are killed off orf The first two days we just looked Cairo and saw w the congress of nations for fot there is nothing just like lik this town anywhere There are i people eople from all 11 quarters of the th globe the most outlandish and most must up ut to date This place is it an air asylum for fakirs and rob robeo bent eo a tt place lIaCe where hele defaulters bribers murderer swindlers and elopers elop are safe Rale as there th rc seems to tu be no nn extradition extradition tion treaty that cannot bt be overcome by paying money to the th officials T I found that out the th day lay and told dad we Wf should have no Ire standing in iii society in n Egypt unless the people thought he I had committed some seine gigantic crime and fled lila his hi country t t Dad wanted to tu know how it would strike me if it wa wat noised about the ho hotel hotel hotel i tel that lie be te had robbed a national bank but I told him hint there then would be nothing I uncommon or noticeable not about bout a robbing robbin a bank Hank as half hair the tourists were bank defaulters so t he h would have to tn In Ia ac lC accused of or startling so we e de le decided that dad dud be charged with withIn being In the principal thing thin in time the Stand Standard Standard ard Oil on company om and ami that lie hi Ii had un i i i litres JInes running sev several v I eral ial 1 sUites slates oil away aay front from the thel people l who it and aral that at the I Il present l nt tune tun H he aas as aM worth a billion I dollars and ami his be in i me was vas wa i every little while and by h ginger Kin er you OU ought t to sw th t his h j 1 eople bow down to Li him kini Say ty common hank bank robbers robben and I defaulters just fell over themselves to get Ift acquainted with dad iad and arid to tarry carry carryout I out the joke 1 I put Iut smut kerosene kl n oil I Ion on dads dad handkerchief and that it for everybody f V loves the I smell ranell II of ot a M i that represents a Ii billion dollars klara I IAU All AU the women wanted to tu dance lan e with dad in the th hotel dance and because I they thought 1 must be heir to all the theil nil ull il billions they Y wanted d to hold me on their lats lalis lal and nl stroke my hair as I though b I 1 was f it I guess we are going lo to have everything our own way here hert I and if dad does not get eloped with I oby by jy some me Egyptian princes I shall be mistaken The rhe are re pretty prell near n being bettig negroes and wear er bangles I In hi their ears earl and stirrings earrings oil oh 01 their I arms You ou take it in lii the dark and let leta leta 1 a princess put her arm around you rou i and od sort of squeeze ce you OU and ami you OU cant ant tell teU but what she ehe he w is H white only there is fd J an odor about bout them like Uke Araby the tIle thet t t but in hi the light they are only negroes a little bleached with Uh red paint on their cheeks If 1 I was going to marry an Egyptian woman I 1 would take lake her bel to Norway or OL UI up towards the north i Pole ole where it is night all day and you ou realize reaUze that you yuu were married to a colored woman oman To be around round among these Egyptians is a good deal like having baYing a pass l pa R behind the scenes at the play of Ben Hur in New NewYork NewYork York only here the th dark and danger dangerous ous 0 women are the real thing instead al alo of o being white girls with black paint Oil era AVe We e have Just jUit got back from front the pyramids amid and ancl thid is being treated for tor or spinal sInal meningitis on account of riding a camel I never nen r tried harder ha to get Jet dad clad to w go anywhere on the ears cars ar than I 1 did to get g t him him to go to the pyramids Ity by b rail raU as us a millionaire should but he heAld aid Ald he was wa as going to break a cannel camel to the th saddle s and 1 then buy him and ami take tuk I hint him home for tor a tilde skIs show sho So 80 we went ent down doOn to the th camel cam 1 garage and hired a camel caine for dad and four came cameLs for the Arabs Arabe and things he wanted anted for an es Cf escort esL L cort cart and a n jackass for me ute There were W werey ff y automobiles and carriages and anti trolleys troll 5 1 and everything that we could haw hat hired d and a nd been be en comfortable ble for fO l the ten t tenmile el mile ride rid l Wt Ut CI was wu mashed ed on the thea a t it naJ 1 L Well veu 4 n I wi s i 18 H t of or these the e i fair f lr camels e Un 18 that lay down iown for tOl tOla a von van to get on cm arid and then sot got ot up ui on the tbs I c installment plan and Chucky chuck you 01 for forward ward und arid aft but a proud Egyptian camel that stands stand up P straight and makes maltes you climb up on a stepladder er Dad got along up the time camels ribs when the stepladder fell and he grabbed hold of the hair on the time two humps and the humps were loose and 1011 they lopped over on the side and it must have haye hurt the camels feelings to have haYe his liis humps hUmp pulled pun down doni so he lie lieTA liec I I I I I c TA Like a Frog on a Pond Lily Leaf reached around lila his head and took tool a mouthful out of the Jeal teat eat of dads pants and dad yelled to the camel to let go I and the Arabs amputated the camel eamel from dads trousers and pushed lad dad up on top with a bamboo pole with whit a L crotch in it and when dad got settled between the humps he said Jet Let er Sr go Jo and we started Dad could have had hud a it camel a platform on top tol and an awning but lie be insisted in i ted on taking his camel raw and mind he sat there between those humps his trousers worked up towards his knees kneelS showing his red socks and aud blue drawers and his hit face got pale from fromeL fromsen sea sen eL sickness and the red white and blue colors made me inc think of oC the time fourth of July Jul at ut home Ve We went vent out of or town I like a wild Will west w St show and dad seemed happy except that evert time an ant automobile au ju went whizzing along dads camel en mel got the jumps and waltzed side sideways sideway ways way vay out into the sandy sand desert and amid I chewed hewed at dads socks so no part of the time dad datI hud had to ft draw up his legs and sit on one hump and amid put lut his shoes on the other hump The Arabs on the theother theother theother other camel eamel would ride up UI alongside und and steer dads lads camel caine lack back into the road by Iy sticking sharp sticks into litto the camel unel and the animal would yawn an air groan and suid make up faces at me lne on my lUY jackass and amI finally finalI dad wanted to change works with me Ule and my jackass j but I 1 told him we had tad left the stepladder back at Cairo airo so dad hung to tn his mountainous steed stee L but the dust blew HO so you see and it was getting gl monotonous when the queerest tiring thing happened You Yon have heard that camels can cami fill fillup fillup up with water and go for a 14 I week with without without without out asking aslin for more Inore Well Vell ell I guess gue guethe the time week WitS was up and it was time Ummie to I load the camels with water for as we came to the Nile every ever lust last t camel made Thade a IL rush for the time river and they went in like a n yoke of oxen on a stampede pede and 1011 waded in clear up uti to the humps and began to drink and dad yelled for a in life preserver and amid pulled iris liis f feet et up on top and amid sat Mat there like a ft frog on a pond lily lib leaf My ly jackass only stepped his feet in inthe inthe inthe the edge and dad 1101 wanted me roe to swim swimmy swimmy my jackass out to the time camel and let him fall fail off onto the jack but I knew that dad would sink m my jack in a min minute minute mm ute and I go in the river Well the camels amels drank about an nn hour with dad sitting there meditating and then themi the dragomen got gut them out and we started off for the pyramids p which I were in plain sight like the pictures you have seen een with palm trees along the Nile NUe and Arabs camping on omi the 1 I bank bauk and und it looked as its though every everything ever everything thing wa wag nas going to be all right when t suddenly dads camel stopped dead still and move a foot and nil all the i irest rest of the thc camels stopped closed their eyes and went vent to sleep and the Arabs Arbs I went to sleep and dad and the jackass and amid I were apparently the only ani ant male in Egypt that were vere awake R Dad kicked the camel in the ribs I but it budge He lie asked me if I think up some way to start I Ithe the procession and I stopped my m jack jacl t ass and thought a minute and told dad dadI I had bad it I had bought some giant fire firecrackers firecrackers firecrackers crackers and roman candles at Cairo with which I was going goin to fire a salute on top of the biggest pyramid p to cele ceic celebrate celebrate brate for old America and I told dad what I had bad got and I thought of I got bOt gotoff bOtoff off oil my jackass and tired fired a salute 5 lute there therein 11 in lii the desert it would wake them up Dad said all right let er go but do doit doIt i it sort of easy CaS at first filSt so not to overdo it and amid I got my artillery ready Say Sa you cant camit fire off fireworks easy you I got to touch a match to em ermi ail dodge and take your OUI chances Well I scratched a match and lit the giant firecracker and put it under the hind legs of dads camel and find when it got gut gotto gutto gotto to fizzing I lit my m roman candle andie and as the firecracker exploded like a sixteen inch gun my roman romall candle began b n to I 1 spout balls b of fire tIre and I aimed one at atI each camel and anti the tire whole push started on n a 1 stampede the Arabs praying to toI toc toj I I A c I j A j Ao Started on a Stampede Allah dad clad yelling elling to stop er and my m jackass led lcd the bunch and I was left leftin leftin leftIn in the desert to pick up UI the time hats I guess I will have to tell you the rest of the tragedy in my next letter Yours I with plenty of OIl sand HENNERY I Copyright right 1905 by Joseph J seph B Bowles |