Show I i 1 i I L y R TTO U N it a r I Th I I A 31 1 d 18 Gt FD 6Sfei7 v r4J Q ° tTD e r v ° o ° e i ° o t I 1 If I THE FEATS OF MUCHSLASHa I I III III 17 111 BY JOHN WALKER HARRINGTON I After lio had traveled far Muchslash I entered a cave playing a hurdy urI ur-I i 1 and when Grabitall the giant I said I Stop he only played more loudly spinning I spin-ning around on his red heels until ho I looked like a top I I Teach mo to make music as bad as that said Grabitall stretching out his arms which were more like ropes lImn members for surely It must bo much better than It ounds Play the Money Must said Much Hlnsh cracking tho hurdy gurdy over the head of a goldeneagle For picnics and bonllre nights tho Money Must Is theo I the-o lv tune lOr cant replied Grabllall I dont know a note Playl roared Muchslnsh and learn tho notes sixty days after date First you turn It then Ill teach you why you did und after that If you have patience you may learn the rules for the proper and discreet playing of all hurdy gur dlcr dlcrI I dont know whether faltered the giant Its not a question of whether but how much said Muclislash Much what Music 7 asked Grabllall I t I 1 I t II I n iI I i ti 1 I I l i i 9 I p 09 GU0 I I Ll I 1 t I I I 1 II I I Ii I i I a I I H I I J I i I I i l l ta ip I i i ij i I m + Ala I I I r + t I rjv I r r I 1 1 i 1 = J 1I I t A t r I I I I r r Il I t 1 t 1 ti i f i I I h I c J I I II r I i i I MRi Jan MRlo km t T I i ° I i I Grabital Cut Through tho Chest of Muchslash Sho Put His Head on Upside Down Money rpplIcM l Muchslash with a quizzical 9n Ill Fifty Cents grunted the giant Dollars replied Mnqhslash Pny i now before I let you begin to think you I can play or Ill break the thing over your head You are a man after my own heart said limo giant as he clapped tin hands IlIce two barn dyors crashing together In a lQrnndo At this signal the lloor of tho cave In which they were silting fell out and Grabltall Muehshish and the wheezing hurdy gurdy fell Into a black void They presently emerged Into a I high vaulted chamber paved with gold dollars Time walls shone with silver and golden Ir np nnnor Inlmnc The air was heavy and drowsy with the odor of bank bills and beneath the tes selntod floor could be heard the clink of coin coinThe The serfs said Grabltall are shoving shov-ing tho dividends from the blue cellar to the red What you nerd said Muchslasb In no way abashed by the splendor which he saw about him is a divisor That Is what 1 thought but I have so much wealth that the mote I divide It the bigger It sets rite trouble has been said Much slash that not enough has adhered to the divisor Im the divisor whom you seek I secYour Your name asked the giant marveling mar-veling at the boldness ot his visitor Muchslaslu answered the tailor What a namo for a couponcutter laughed i Grabltall What are coupons asked Muchslash Youre Ignorant replied the giant with a sneer You remind me of the boy who asked what sort of pickles Pericles were But Im not a man to stop at trllles Ill give you all the coupons cou-pons you fan cut In ten minutes Coupons Cou-pons are bits of paper joined to larger sheets culled bonds Old gentlemen get tluMii with the gout Judging from your lank looks you havent had much ot either 1 Is It curable nskcd Muohslnsh Noe replied Grabltall every coupon you cut means that yo uget S6 Once you have the coupon habit Il Is a question of not when but how often Grabltall led the way to the pen marked bondbin and told Muchslash to cut coupons while the electric Light was a hi nl nxr Time venerable tailor unbound Ills musical musi-cal shears and threw them < into the bin There followed rustling and tearing and ripping The magic shears bounded In and oul The coupons roso Ia the air the serfs rushed up from the vaults below bringing gold dollars on silver platters and whenever a coupon fluttered at the fet of Muchslash they gave the amiable tailor six shining coins Xot how often but why not laughed Muchslash stowing away the cold l pieces In his girdle until he felt weighted i almost I to the ground Pinlon me while I sing to the hurdy gurd that beautiful song Money Must Be Spent The blue and the Ted serfs came so rap idly oul of tho vaults that Muehslash did not know what to do with the fiches which rose about him In te form of a yellow dike The Wistful ASllch entered at this t moment mo-ment however with a regiment of green backed l Kisoines who gathered up the coins In whcclbariows md 1 with a riuick nebs which astonished Grabltall himself rolled them up the void and piled them at the mouth of the outer cave Grabltall viewed this with a Jealous eye for so swiftly did Ithe niuglc shoaiij do their I work that thousands mill thousands I of dollars were pllcntlv taken out of the vaults beneath the hnll of gold At last I cried the giant the time la up Call In the watchdog of the treasury treas-ury uryMuchslash however J with n slash of the magic shears gave the beast such a nip of sharp steel that It ran howling through the vaults of blue and fell exhausted In a heap of money bags Shears will work in more ways than ono roared the angry giant 1 wouldnt have minded giving you a few million to fcurd a school for time butter l playing of hurdygurdies jut vou take more coupons cou-pons than arc your due rae giant seized MticliBlash = iround the legs and balancing the twHtlnc form of tho old tailor he grinned a villainous grin These magic wheats will make an end of you said the evil monster Will you have your head sheared on the tIns or straight actojs the neck Grabltall cut down from the shoulder through the chest of Muchilash twice The cuts met In a point and tho head of tho old tailor dropped to the ground Muchslash would certainly have died had not the Wistful Witch entered and with great presence of mind replaced his hand as she supposed with treat correctness cor-rectness Sho put It I on upside down I however In her solicitous haste and by so doing changed an old man to a round I faced young I one I f It ILI UL LIIQ lC gaining of his youth escaped from the i cave of Grabltall and reached the outer air where he found a party of the sailors of the yacht of the King of Woe waiting for him Full pardon has boon printed to you said the captain of the vessel for our King has heckled l that you must return at once to that kingdom where your Joke are best appreciated So It liippCficd m that Muchslash trans formed Into a voung gnllunt In a way which all may underHand who take the trouble to cut the first picture with a pair of shears rctiuried to his own country coun-try singing blithely its be turned the hur dygurdy for In his haste he had not neglected to bring with him that faithful Instrument All his treasure was transported trans-ported and Muchslash tho poor talior became a Knight of the CJolden Fleece Allah A-llah of shears was i pilntod on his coatot arms and his motto was These shining blades like peevish olvci Cut all there is except thcnscles in perennial Youth In the Land of Woe where he did much to enliven that hitherto hither-to cheerless realm by the spending of a princely fortune Till END |