Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-10-29
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From the riverside MAGAZINE J


stOnee on time, that is, not quite a
hundred years ago, there was young
princess, whose mother was great
empress. This young princess, with
bright brown hair, had several broth
ers and sisters. Their father was dead,
bubfhev thought their imperial mann
ma the most beautiful and the state
liest lady that had ever lived; and
they loved her, and were proud OF pc
ing her children, though they were
VERY much afraid Of her. They lived
in splendid palaces, had many noble
ladies, and gentlemen, and pages to
wait on them, hundreds Of servants
e and troops OF guards Always about
stWhen this young princess with
bright brown hair was fourteen years
old, albaby-boy was Dorm IN an island
far away from where she lived, who
came into different kind of world.
He. too, had several brothers and sis
ters; but his people were not at all
Iich, and they had note an idea how
they should ever manage to get the
bows started in the world, and the girls
reSpectably married. Their island was
in the Mediterranean Sea; but, as there
were no steamers then, il seemed al
most as far from the places where peo-
pie could make money or reputation,
as New Zealand does noWg so the law
yer and his wife, who were proud peo-
pie, and not at all willing their boys
should be tradesmen, had many dis
cussi0ns aud many anXieties about
what was to be done with them.
f'The young princess with bright
brown hair married, and was queen /;
she had children, and happy times /;
had very sad times.
ssThe boy on the island grew up, and
went to school, and was sent away from
home to learn his profession.
''lThe queen with bright brown hair
grew more and more unhappy, her
beautiful hair Jnrned gray with grief,
and she thought her heart would break.
In the midst of her troubles, she had
s.s news from the old home where she had
been child, that her brother who was
enlpersr (f0r their imperial mamma
was dead9 had a sHttle granddaughter
born to him: a little princess who
would grow up In the old palace where
she herself had grown up, and be sent
away to some Strange place, to marry
as she had been. Would she be happy
at first like her, and then more miser-
able than any woman ever was before,
as she thought herself? The queen,
whose bright brown hair turned gray
before she grew old, was cruelty put
g to death when the baby princess was
Just learning to talk, and when the
3 young island boy was a handsome
young officer, poor and clever, with his
way still to make in this world. Elev-
-enzyeaFss afseEEEaEds,s the 00rzQueen's s
only remaining child was an exile, the
handsome officer was emperor of the
land where the queen had once Feigned
with her husband; and the little prin-
eess-in the queens old home heard
such wonderful stories of the new en-
peror's deeds of daring, eand of his
marvellous pOwer, that 1t seemed as if
he had magical gifts, Aladdin's lamp,
or FOrtunatas's purse, and she could
not tell whether he was hero or
s. monster. He made every one of his
brothers king, one of his sisters a
queen. another princess, and the
third a countess.
f'The poor queen who was so cruelty
put to death5 would have Shought II
quite impossible that her brother
granddaughter, whose ancestors had
been emperors and empresses for hun
dreds Of wears, could ever marry the
fsoh OF a poor lawyers ana the poor
LAWYERS wife would have laughed if
anv one had told her, when her chill
= efen1vefeLy young ftfIat CTIe OF lIsr sons
would be an emperor, ana All the 9TH
ers kings. But SO 1t was.
'sThe lawyers son was an emperor,
and the emperOr'S gr8addsC~ ~hter mar
ried the lawyers son She married
him before she was nineteen, and for
four years she was II1 c press but af-
ter that the fairy scene vanished the
new emperor was sent to very dreary
island, far away frohn the island
whore he was born, and the empress
with her little boy went back to her
old home. Now who We're these peo-
ple?''
''Marie Antoinette was the f1rst''
''And the boy on the island was Ma
poleon Bonaparte," " said Rob.
EtMarie Louise was the last said
Annie Fisher. "And now II must
thank you, and say goodnight, dear
Mrs Lewis; for my imperial mamma
has come for me in the carriage,-so
Joseph said just now"