Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-12-25
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HOW SIX TRAVELLED
THROUGH THE WORLD.

THERE was once a man who under
stood a variety of arts he had served
in the army, where he had behaved very
bravely, but when tho war came to an
end he received his discharge, and three
dollars salary for his services. Wait
bit this does not please me, said he
"if I find the right people, 1 will make
the King give me the treasures of the
whole kingdom" Thereupon, infamed
with anger, he went into a forest, where
he found a man who had just uprooted
six trees, as if they we're straw, and be
asked him whether he would be his SER
want, and travel with him. Yes" re-
piled the man " but I will first take
home to my mother this bundle of fire.
wood ;" and, taking up one of the trees,
be wound it round the other FIVE, and,
raising the bundle upon his shoulder,
bore it away. Soon he returned, and
said to his master. ''We two shall trav-
ell we'll through the world /" They had
not gone far before they came up with a
hunter who was kneeling upon one knee,
and preparing to take aim with his gun.
The master asked him what he was 60
ing to shoot, and he replied, 1.-TWO miles
from hence sits a fly upon the branch Of
an oak tree, whose left eye I wish to
shoot out"
"Oh, go with me ~ said the man, fOr
if we three are together, we must pass
easily through the world"
The huntsman consented, and went
with him, and soon they arrived at sew
en- windwills, whose sails were going
round at a rattling pace, although right
or left there was no wind and not leaf
stirring. At this sight the man said
"I wonder what drives these mills, for
there is no breeze T' and they went on
but they had not proceeded more than
two miles when they saw a man sitting
upon a tree who held one nostril while
he blew out of the other. My good
fellow" said our hero, "what are you
driving up there ?"
Did you not see, replied the man,
two miles from hence seven Windmills
1t is those which I am blowing that the
sails may turn around"
ooh, then come with me, said our hero
/" for if four people like US travel togeth-
er, we shall soon get through the world"
So the blower got up and accompani-
ed him, and in a short while they met
with another man standing upon one
leg, and the other leg unbuckled and ly-
ing by his side. The leader of the 9th
er said, You have done this, no doubt,
to rest yourself?" YES" replied the
man. "I am a runner, and in order that
I may not spring along too quickly I
have unbuckled one of my legs, for
when I wear both I go as fast as a bird
can fly"
"Well, then, come with me" said our
hero five such fellows as we are will
soon get through this world"
The five heroes went on together, and
soon met a sick man who had a hat
which he wore quite over one ear. The
captain of the others said to him, "Man-
ners ! manners / don't hang your hat on
one side like that; you look like sim
pleton I"
"I dare not do so, replied the other;
'' for if I set my hat straight, there will
come so sharp a frost that the birds in
the sky will freeze and fall dead upon
ground"
"Then come with me" said our hero,
" for it is odd if six fellows like us can
not travel quickly through the world
The six new companions went into
city where the King had proclaimed that
whoever should run a race with his
daughter, and bear away the prize,
should become her husband but if he
lost the race he should also loose his
head. This was mentioned to our hero,
who said he would have his servant run
for him; but the King told him that in
that case be must agree that his servants
life, as we'll as his own, should be sacri-
feed if the wager was lost. To this he
agreed and swOre, and then he bade his
runner buckle on his other leg, and told
him to make sure Of winning. The va
ger was, that whoever first brought back
water from a distant spring should be
victor. Accordingly the runner and the
princess both received a cup, and they
both began to run at the same moment.
But the princess had not proceeded many
steps before the runner was quite out of
sight, and it seemed as if but puff of
wind had passed. In short time he
came to the spring, and filling his cup,
he turned back again, but had not gone
very far, before feeling tired, he set his
cup down again, and laid down to take
a nap. He made his pillow of horoe's
skull which lay upon the ground; think
ing, from its being hard, that he would
soon awake. Meantime the princess,
who was better runner than many of
the men at court had arrived at the
spring, and was returning with her cup
Of water, when she perceived her oppo-
nent lying asleep. In great Joy she ex-
claimed. "My enemy is given into my
own hands p and emptying his cup, she
ran on faster still. All would now have
been lost, if by good luck, the hunts
man had been standing on the castle,
looking on with his sharp eyes. When
he saw the princess was gaining the ad-
he loaded his gun and shot so
that he carried away the horses
skull under the runnar's head, without
doing the man any injury. This awoke
him, and, jumping up, he found his cup
empty and the princess far in advance
However, he did net lose courage, but
ran back again to the spring, and, filling
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