Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-04-17
The Golden Fleece.
ny EDOUARD LAR0UIaAYE. TRANSLATE
ny NARY Z. BOOTH.


ny MARY Z. RoOTH.
I love the Serviaus they are a brave
people, that remind ne OF the heroes OF
Homer. Their war songs are epic poems;
and their tales have the freshness and
Vrace Of the marvelous stories of the
/ East. The following Is one OF the most
celebrated ones lately told by an old
/ spinnfng-WOm8n On the banks of the
/ MoraVga TO Vouk StsVanovitch.
There once lived 3 hunter at KTou-
ievatz by the name OF YankO Lazare-
witch. He was the king Of the noun
tain. Though his sOas property was
little cottage. surrounded by n garden,
1 he lived there in peace and plenty witt
/ his wife and child Lis bees gave him
Il honey, and his ptuD1rarsss gave the best
1 brandy in the C0unGPys and, thanks to
his CarAbine, game visa never wanting
/ on his table. The rich have fields, mines
l and treasures. Yanko bad the forest GO
/ himself The baTes, roebucks and deer
/ for ten miles round belonged 70 him (;
and when 1t Belgrade Widni, Pesth,
| and even COustantinOplea men desired
| a fine sEiu Of the fox OF the bear, they
| addressed themselves TO none other
/ than YRulZo, the hunter Of Kroujevatz.
Happiness is like she flower Of the
| helds-it withers In day In a beRutls
/ ful autumn night YauEC was on the
watch when he spted strange light Ia
1
were lighted up ons By one as IL from
the flames Of q furnace and then tell
again into the shadow - the light con-
tinued to advance At the same time
he heard the sound Of g heavy tread and
the cracking Of the branches.
To Quit his cover and rush forward
was the work Of an iuzkant. Suddenly
there issued from the vggoo huge ram,
whose even shOt 1lle, az Zs30aa 6 ea12e
ALTERED Ike the rays . 9ale Mtlls 4ane
Eo raised his caFsblnee but the animal
rushed on him like lightning and DASH
cd him to the ground
The next mnrning Rt daybreak the
wood choppers on their way % work
found the poor hunter stretched lteless
and already cold in death. His breast
was pierced with two deep wounds,
from which his blood and life had eb-
bed, The wOOd-ChOppezB bore the body
Of their brave counrads back 20 the town
where he was buried and All was over.
In the happy abode Tghlcn 80 laSely mac
ruuR with Yanko's merry shouts,
naught was to be heard but the means
Of his widow and the s5bs Of his child.
Cav or sad the years p8zs by, bearing
with theF1 our pleasures and cur painH.
Stoiau. the son Of Yankos grew up TO ne
O man, and his first desire was 20 be-
come 8 hunter. He had his fathers
blood in his veins, ald while still a
child, his greatest delight had been to
see and handle the e1Eabana that was
hanging on the wall But when he en- |
treated his mother TO let him go into
forest the poor woman os2Ess INTO tealSA' |
ttlTo, my child,' sic said "tor no |
money IN the world would give you |
this caEablno. I have alEesdy loss my |
husband do you want ms 20 lose my
stoian neId his peace and kissed his !
mother but the next daY he returned !
TO the attack, and was 80 tender and /
oarresging, and promised strongly 20 be |
prudent, that he ended BY having his
Early in the morning staian hasten
ed to the mountain, intoxicated WITH /
delight. He hunted alt day, and at /
evening sought q cover Al t1e very place i
where his father had died.
The night was dark, and the young
tired hunter was giving way despite /
himself to sleep, when be vas aWkened 1
by loud noise. BE gpIed strange /
light; he saw the trees Of the forest /
lighted up one after am0thef as If from |
a flaming furnace, and he heard /
heavy tread and the noise Of cracking Il
branches. With0us quitting his cover 4
8toian aimed his CaEbins and GOmmen-
ded himself TO God. Suddenly there /
whose eyes shot IRE, and whose fleece /
gIIttered like the rays Da the sun.
"Stoian Stoian - Il cried, 81 have /
killed thy father, and come to kill /
thee"
sENot so. - answered he youth; "with 4
Gods help shall xii thee instead"
And he look aim 80 veil that the an
imaI, struck between the eyes, fell back 4
and rolled on the Rroand.
StioRn threw himself on the animal, |
and stabbed It TO tbe heart. he. had
9ust beuuu 90 tear OF its fleece when 3 I
tail woman with rawsn tr8sses and sea-
green eyes appeared ai his side. It was
the fairy Of the forest Gae villa Of the /
mountain.
''stoiau, p said abe, 'stliou hast deliv-
cred me from an enemy lake my hand;
I am thy sister. Wheneyer thou need
est aid think Of me-"
The young bunteF thanked the lady 1
and returned to KrOujsFaiz, happy and /
proud OF bis bunting expedition. The
golden fleece, suspended bn the wall,
lighted up the whole room. Men flock
ed from all parts of the p8Ovince Co Ad-
mire it. StOian was proclaimed king Of
the mountain, like bis father before
hi m and all young gifls amiled on
him as he passed by.
at this time the TuFk-Whom God !
COnfOund Twas master of ServiR. /
ResChid, the pRcha Of Belgrade, was an 4
ex-janizaFy, who perhaps had been
brave in his day but be was now
nothing but q coarse old suaEI, who pas
ssd his life in drinking, smoking, and
sleeping. To aid him IA governing
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customs h0 despiBsd, he had BY his side
q renegade from none knew where, one
Of those misCreants without faith or law,
who lived by rapins aious. Yacoub-
for such was the name eE Gh3s honest
man-had low brow, weasel eyes, a
nose hooked like the heak Of an eagle,
and ten fingers more hooked than his
nose. OF all tho words iaa bh0 language /
the one that he knew best was take
which he corrugated at ail times and ln
all ways. AS 60 the Wofa restore, he
was ignorant Of It. MaF Eblis teach e
to him eternally In the Internal abodesl
There Is 3 COmmcn pEoVerb, that q
Turk makes more havoc than ten
wolves, and that Ia thia respect . rene
gade iB equal Co ten Tu8azae-Y Rcoub did
not belle the pToverbs ana day when
RssChid went 70 Kr0u3svaaE on hunt
ing expedition, Yacouhs according to
custom, set about collecting tho taxes
f0r his own profit. To aB him justice,
however, be did give gou8 portion %
his master, who gave none 60 che Sui
tan.
On entering stoian'a hcnas che zena.
aada'B eyes were oa8zla1 ~ tie a8la0n