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EMPEnoR's NEwcLorHEs.

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EMPEnoB's NEwcLoTEEs.
BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
Many years ago there lived an Emperor
who cared so very much about having
new clothes, that he spent all his money
merely for the sake of being very smartlY
dressed. He d-not care much about his
troops; he did not care either about GO
ing to the play or driving out, unless it
were that he might show his new clothes.
He had n now suit for every hour in the
day; and as one usually says of the King
or Emperor, ''He held n privy council" :" so
of him it was said, 'tHis Majesty sat in
council with his tailors.'
In large town where he resided people
led Il merry life. Day after day fresh visit
ors arrived ut Court: one day q compile of
swindlers, who called themselves first rate
weavers, made their appearance They
pretended that they were able to weave the
richest stuffs, in which not only the colors
aud patterns were extremely beautiful, but
that the clothes made of such stuffs pos
sessed the wonderful property of remMin-
ing invisible to him who was unfit for the
Office he held, or who was extremely silly
"What capital clothes they must bel"
thought the Emperor. "If had but such
suit Icould directly find out what.peoplc
in my empire were not equal to their office;
and besides, l should be able to listin-
guish the clever from the stupid. By
Jove, must have some of this stuff made
directly for me! And SO he ordered large
sums of money to be given TO the two
swindlers, that they might set to work i'm
nlediately.
The men erected two looms, and did as
if they worked very diligently; but in re-
altty they had got nothing on the loom.
They boldly demanded the finest silk and
gold thread, put it all in their own pock-
cts, and worked away ut the empty loom
It'll quite late at night.
81 should like to know how the two
wcaver5 are getting on with MY stuff ~
said the Emperor, one day, to himself bnt
he was rather embarrassed when he re-
membered that silly fellow, or one un-
fitted for his Office, would not be able to
see the stuff. 'Tis true, he thought, us far
rs regarded himself, there was no risk
wtIatever; but he preferred sending some
one else, 10 bring him intelligence OF the
two weavers, and how they were getting
on, before lie went himself. Everybody
in town had heard of the wonderful pro-
! pcrty that this stuff WAS said to possess
and all were curious to know how clever
or foolish their ncighbors might be found
to be.
"I will send my worthy old minister,"
said the Emperor ut last, after much con-
siderntion she will he able to say how
the stuff looks better than anybody; for
he is Al man of understanding, and no one
can he found more fitted for this than he .
/ So the worthy old minister went to the
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| ing away with all their might and MAIN
''Lord help me ~ thought the old man,
| opening his eyes as wide as he could !;
''why, can't see the least thing whatever
on the tooms T. But he took care not to
give voice TO his thoughts.
The swiudlers begged him most politely
to have the goodness to1ppronch the loom;
and then, pointing to the empty frame,
asked him if the colors were not of great
! beauty. Aud the poor minister looked,
and looked, and could see nothing what
ever; for indeed there was nothing at all
there. "Bless mc!n thought he to himself,
''am then a simpletou? Well, 1 never
thought so, and nobody does know it.
am not fit for my Office! No, nothing on
earth shall make me say that have not
seen the stuff"
''Well, sir," snid one of the swindlers,
still working busily, you don't say if the
| stuff pleases you or not"
"Oh, beautiful, beautiful The work is
admirable, said the old minister, looking
the beam through his spcctacles. 'tThis
pattern and these colors!-well, we'll I
shall not fail to tell the Emperor thnt both
are most beautifully"
'.Well, VIC shall be delighted if you do
so," said the swindlprs, and named the
different patterns and colors which were
in the stuff The old minister listened at.
tentively to what they said, in order that
he might be able to repeat all to the Enl-
lperor.
The swindlers then asked for more mon
ey, and silk and gold thread, which they
said they wanted to finish the piece
they had begun. But they put, as be-
fore, all that was given them into their
own pockets, and still continued to work
with apparent diligence atthe empty loom
Some time after the Emperor sent anoth-
er officer to. see how the work was getting
on, and if the piece of brocade would
soon be. finished. But he Jared like the
other; he. stared at the loom from every.
side, but as there was nothing there, of
course he could see nothing but the empty
frame.
"Does the stuff not please you as much
as it did the minister?" asked the men,
making the same gestures as before, and
talking of splendid colors and of patterns
which did not exist. s
stupid certainly am not, " though the
new commissioner; "thenie must be that
1 am not fitted for my lucrative Office
that were good joke However, no one
dare even suspect such thing" And so
he began praising the stuff that he could
not see, and told the two swindlers how
| pleased he was to behold such beautiful
psror on his return, s.tbe stuff which the
weayers are mai is seSt iparys sfairg5lis
| The magnifeenct brocade that the Em