New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-03
A JutIansl Legend.

6 In the midst of the morass--here must tell
thee it is like lake, said the male stork So thou
canst portion Of it If thou wilt raise thyself
up moment-yonder, by the rushes and the green
morass, lay alarge stump of an alder tree. The
three swans alighted upou it, tapped their wings
and looked about them. Que Of them cast off her
swan Disguise, and recognized in her our royal
princess from Egypt. She sat now with no other
| mantle around her than her long dark hair /
heard her desire the other two to take good care of
her magic swan garb, while she ducked down
under the water to pluck this flower which she
thought she saw.
They nodded, and raised the empty feather dress
between them ''What are they going to do with
it!n said to myself; and she, probably, asked
herself the same question. The answer came too
soon. for saw them take fight up into the air with
her charmed feather dress. Dive thou thereln
they cried. !. Never more shalt thou fly in the
form Of magic swan--never more shalt thou be-
hold the land of Egypt. Dwell thou in the wild
morass = And they tore her magic disguise into
hundred pieces, SO that the feathers whirled
round about as if there were fall of snow and
away ilew the two worthless princesses. q 1t is
shoeking!n said the lady stork; can't bear to
hear it. Tell me what more happened.n aThe
princess sobbed and wept, Her tears trieked
down upon the trunk of the alder tree and then it
moved for it was the mudking himself-he who
dWeils in the morass.
/ saw the trunk turn itself, and then there
was no more tfunk-it struck up two long miry
branches like arms; then the poor child became
dreadfully alarmed, and she sprang aside upon the
green, Shiny coating of the marsh; but it could
not bear me, much less her, and she sank imme-
iiately in. The trunk of the alder tree went down
with her-it was that which had dragged her
down: then arose to the surface like black bnb.
b1es, and all further traces Of her disappeared.
She is now buried in " wild morass,n and never,
never shall she return to Egypt with the flower
she sought. Thou couldst not have borne to
have seen all this, mother.n .'Thou hadst no
business to tell me such startling tale at time
like this. The eggs may suffer. The princess can
take care of herself She will no doubt be res
cued. II it had been me or thee or any OF our
family, it would have been all over with us.a 81
will look after her every day, however, said the
male stork and SO he did.
long time had elapsed, when one day he saw
that, far down from the bottom, was shooting up
green stem, and, when it reached the surface
a leaf grew on it. The leaf became broader and
broader close BY II came bud; and one morn
ing, when the stork flew over it, the bud opened
in the warm sunshine, aud in the centre OF il lay
beautiful infant, littla girl. just as If she had
been taken out of BATH She so strongly resem-
bled the princess from Egypt, that the stofk at
first thought il was herself who had become an in.
FAINT again; but when he considered the matter he
came to the conclusion that she was the daughter
Of the princess and the mndking therefore she lay
10 the ealyx OF a Materially,
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