Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1930, Page 34

T¢1E EVENING 'STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1930. NG STORY | One of World-Famous Works of Literature I The Vacation of Mustapha. BY ROBERT J. BURDETTE (Robert, Jones Burdette, 18441914, wa | American’ humorist who adethe Buring: | famous with hi e o s "ts 'Works include ~Chimes of & Jester's Bell.) ) Now, in the sixth month, in the reign of the good Caliph, it was so that Mustapha said, “I am wearled with much work; thought, care and worry have worn me out: I need re- pose, for the hand of exhaustion is upon me, and death even now lleth at the joor.” A0%%d he called his physician, who felt of his pulse and looked upon his tongue, | aid: | N rwodollahs!” (For this was the oath by which all physicians swore) “Of & verity thou must have rest. Flee unto the valley of quiet, and close thine eyes n dreamful rest: fold back thy brain from thought and they hand from labor, or you will be a candidate for the asy- Jum in three weeks.” And he heard him, and went out, | and put the business in the hands of | the clerk, and went away to rest in | the valley of quiet. And he went to| his Uncle Ben's, whom he had not | seeh lo. these 14 years, Now, his Uncle Ben was a farmer, and abode in the Valley of rest, and the mountains of | repose round about him. And he was | rich, and well favored, and strong as| an ox, and healthy as an onion crop. Ofttimes he boasted to his nelghbors | that there was not a lazy bone in his| body, and he swore that he hated a| Ia: zy man. ‘And Mustapha wist not that it was 0. ‘But when he reached his Uncle Ben's they received him with great joy, and| placed before him a supper of viands Well cooked, and piled up on his plate | like the wreck of a box car. And when | he could not eat all they laughed him to scorn. And after supper they sat up Wwith him and talked with him about rela-| tives whereof he had never, in all his life, so much as heard. And he an- swered their questions at random, lted unto them, professing to Ungle Ezra_and Aunt Bethesda, and once he said that he had:a letter from Uncle George last week. Now they all knew that Uncle George was shot in & neighbor's .sheep pen three years ago, but Mustapha wist not that it was so, and he was sleepy, and only talked to fill up the time. And then they talked politics to him, and he hated politics. So about 1 o'clock in the morning they sent him to bed. Now the spare room wherein he slept was right under the roof, and there was ears and bundles of ears of seed corn hung from the rafters; and he bunged his eyes with the same, and he hooked his chin in festoons of dried apples, and shook dried herbs and seeds down his back as he walked along, for it was dark. And when he sat up in bed in .the night he ran a scythe in his ear. i And it was so that the four boys slept’ with him, for the bed was wide and they were restless, and slumbered crosswise and kicked, so that Mustapha slept not a wink that night, neither closed he his eyes. And about the fourth hour after midnight his Uncle Ben smote him on the back and spake unto him, saying: “Awake, arise, rustle out of this and wash your face, for the liver and bacon are fried and the breakfast waiteth. You will find the well down at the other end of the cow lot. Take a towel with you.” When they had eaten, his Uncle Ben spake unto him,:saying, “Come, let us stroll around the farm.” § And they walked about 11 miles. And his Uncle Ben, sat him upon a wagon and taught him how to load hay. Then they drove into the barn and he taught him how #o unload if. 'Then they girded up th Joins and walked 4 miles, evén i the forest,” and his Uncle Ben: taught him -how to chop wood, and then walked back to supper. And the morning and the evening were the first day and Mustapha wished he ‘were dead. And after supper his Uncle Ben spoke once more, and said: “Come, let us have some fun?’ And so they hodked up a team and drove 9 miles down to Belcher's Branch, where there was a shop. And they danced until the second hour in the morning. ‘When the next day was come—which wasn't long, for already the night was far spent—his Uncle Ben took him out and taught him bow to make a rail fence. And that night‘there was a wedding, and they ‘danced and made merry, and drafik, and ate, and| when ‘they went to bed at 3 o'clock, | Mustapha prayed that death might come to him before breakfast-time. But breakfast had an early start, and got there first And his Uncle Ben took | Mm down to the creek and taught | him how to wash and shear sheep. | And when evening was come they went | to spelling school, and they 'got home | at the first hour after’midnight and | Unele Ben marveled that it was so | early. And he lighted his pipe and sat up for an hour and told Mustapha all sbout the forty acres he bought last | Spring of old Mosey Stringer, to finish | out that north half, and about the new colt that was foaled last Spring. And when Mustapha went to bed that k Wi on morning he bethought himself of a dose of strychnine he had with him, and he said his prayers wearily, and he took it. But the youngest boy was restless that night and kicked all the' poison out of him in less than 10 seconds. And in the morning, while it was yet night, they ate breaxfast. And nis Uncle Ben took him out and taught him how to dig a ditch. And when evening was come there was a revival meeting at Ebenezer Methodist Church They all went. And there were three regular preachers and two exhorters and a Baptist evangelist. And when midnight was come thcy went home and sat up and talked over the meeting until it was bedtime. Now, when Mustapha was at home, he left his desk at the fifth hour in the afternoon, and he went to bed at the third hour after sunset, and he arose |~ net until the sun was high in the heavens, So the next day, when his Uncle Ben would take him out into the field and show him how to make a post- and-rail femce, Mustapha would swear at him, and smote him with an ax- helve and fled and got himself home, And Mustapha sent for his physician and cursed him. And he said he was tired to death: he turned his face to the wall and died. So Mustapha was gathered to his fathers. And his physician and frisnds mourned and said: “Alas, he did not rest soon enough. He tarried at his desk too long.” But_his Uncle Ben, who came in to attend the funeral and had to do all his weeping out of one eye, because the other was blacked all the way down to his chin, said it was a pity, but Mus- tapha was too awfully lazy to live and he had no get-up about him. But Mustapha wist not what they said, because he was dead. So they divided his property among them, and said if he wanted a tomb- stone he might have attended to it himself while he was yet alive, because they had no time. Large companies in the aeronautical industry of France are merging, with a capital of $16,000,000. MRS. HOPKINS WINS IN PORTRAIT SUIT Circuit Court Jury Decides in Favor of Writer in Two-Year Action. A two-year suit over the disappear- ance of an ancestral portrait resulted |in a jury verdict in Circuit Court yes- terday in favor of Mrs. Grace Porter | Hopkins, 1926 Biltmore street, well | known writer and D. A. R. member, from whom Mrs. Lucy W. 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