Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-08-05

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head where nature has placed it, from
day to day. The humblest of your maj
esty's subjects is happier than L The
scOrching sun blazes upon the hilltop
and there the tempest roars, but the
zephyr and the shadow love the valley
Not among such as I can your majesty
hope to find bliss. 1 have upon my es-
tate farmer, however, who is the happi-
est of mankind. II your majesty will but
suffer me to go in search Of him, the tai
isman will be found"
So the king resolving to allow the
prime minister to get still richer before
he was bow-struug, commanded him to
bring the farmer.
The farmer came. He was a sour,
sturdy fellow from the neighborhood of
Khol, the garden of Persia. He immc-
diately took off his shirt at the royal COM
mand. 1t was a coarse, rough garment,
and appeared to be very thickly inhab-
tied.
The king, though he put it on, was
obliged to take it off again in half an
hour, in a state of intolerable irritation
for, reasoned his majesty, it is impossi-
bic that any one can be happy who wears
such a shirt as that
The farmer, who was recalled to the
royal presence, confirmed the opinion,
and told long and dreary story about
droughts and locusts and taxes; so that
the king would have ordered his head to
be cut off at once to get rid of him, but
the farmer seeing himself in such immi-
Rent peril, assured the king that the mer-
chant to whom he sold his corn was a
happy man without doubt, and begged
to be allowed to fetch him, and so got out
of danger in the same manner as the
prime minister had.
The merchant came. The king, now
warned by experience, determined to in
terrogate him before putting on his shirt.
The merchant complained as much as the
farmer had cf taxes, and had, besides,
another class Of grievances peculiar to
his own. He was particularly eloquent
about custom-houses, the extortions of
officials, and variety of other things,
which made the king so angry that he
determined at least to comfort his disup-
pointment by ordering the merchant TO
be executed. This ceremony over, the
king felt somewhat better. but still the
talismanic shirt was not found.
For long time the king sought the
shirt of happiness through every class of
society, ana sought in vain Although
innumerablc persons were bcheaded, bow
strung and tortured every day, yet, sur
prislng to relate, happiness could not be
found among his subjects.
One day, however, when his majesty,
being encamped in his summer quarters
near Sultanich, was out for sn afternoons
ride, he saw careless, red-nosed fellow
sitting on a post, and every now and then
taking a bottle from under his sash, and
applying his lips with intense satisfaction
to its contents. Still, there was a sturdy
air about the man and merry light in
his eye which did not point him out as
an habitual wine-bibber. He seemed
rather to be keeping festival or enjoying
himself upon some occasion of good for
tune.
"Dog of TOPPER" asked the king abb
ruptly, struck with sudden thought,
are you happy?"
"Thy servant is happy, Q, king, said
the man.
The king then ordered the royal ferro-
shes to seize him, and give him five hun
dred lashes, to cause him to relate the
reasons of his happiness. The red .nosed
man liuped a little, when subsequently
broufht to the kings tent, in the evening,
but he still persisted IN saying that he
was happy; for said he.
"My wife has only been dead three
weeks"
Meerza Snooza, the magician, who, since
he had been consulted, always accompa-
MED the man in his search, and dined at
the royal table, on being appealed to, de-
cided that the red-nosed man had good
for his happiness, for that he
might have been hen-pecked, and was,
perhaps, just then, under the first impress
sion of JOY at his doliverance.
Upon this. the king Immediately or
dered the red-nosed man to be stripped,
in order to obtain the garment which
he required, when, wonderful to relate, it
appeared that the only happy man in his
dominions had no shirt.
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