THE GUN POWDER PLOT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE GUN POWDER PLOT.

AN UNUSUAL VERSION.

(By the CROCODILE.)

Doubtless boys and girls of to-day are very pleased that Guy Fawkes existed, but if they liad been an the shoes, of the King of England three and a quarter hundred years ago they would have jolly well felt differently about the matter.

So far as I can gather, Guy Fawkes had a dislike for King James number one for some reason or another, and decided to get rid of him at *11 costs. As a means to his end this foxy individual invented the sky rocket. Authorities say that it was his intention to fire the rocket over the palace grounds, with the hopes that the stick would descend forcibly upon the royal head, but it seems that he wanted to settle an account with the other Parliamentarians as well, and thought it would be better to kill two birds with one stone, or rather put an end to the King and his coimsellors with" one match —a saving gentleman as regards expense, you will note, but not as to the lives of kings and patriots.

The plot was carefully laid and the clay for the assassination planned for November 5, when the King was due to open Parliament. With some of his equally bloodthirsty friends Fawkes tunnelled through to the vaults of Parliament house and there made a sort of giant cannon cracker by piling up barrels of gunpowder. The fireworks were due to start during the King's speech, but unfortunately for poor old Guy they started earlier than he anticipated. Through a Minister of the Crown the King got wind of the foul plot, and whilst Guy Faykes was cooling his heels and warming to the task in hand, the King's officers entered the vaults and caught him red-handed.

In accordance with the laws of those days Guy Fawkes and his friends were executed, and . I don't doubt that the King heaved a sigh of relief; certainly he would feeljnuch safer with the knowledge that the plotters could do him 110 further harm.

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