The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-04-15

gave the lovely princess his arm and
took a walk with her in the orange
grove, and told her many of his ad-
ventures.
I When they came back the he'll was
rung for supper, and grand young
prince, in love with the princess, took
her into tine great hall. And in came
kyts among the lords and mobiles, and
took seat behind very large pie.
II have a fine appetite" said kyts,
"and this will suit me a. well as any
thing"
But when the pie was half gone,
the king looked across the table, and
there he saw kyts.
"HOw dare you come here in the
best place ," cried the king.
at makes no odds To Inc where |
sit, ;" answered Kyts-
"Odds, bOblIs this is too much, the
king cried. "My lords, drag this fel-
low out, and never let him come 10
the court any more n'
II may as we'll walk out, your maj
esty," said Kyts, ''fOr it makes no
odds to me which way l CO."
Then he left the great city, taking
his sack of money with him, and he
bought pretty cottage i'm the wood,
and grew cabbages and flowers, and
was as happy as the birds. But sad
news soon came TO him that there was
new war, and that the kings head
had been chopped off because he was
too proud and obstinate for the peO-
pie, and that they wanted to kill the
lovely princess, too. Then kyts re-
membered the orange grove, and he
started off to join the knight and the
rest of the dead kings army, outside
the walls Of the great city.
''Do you see that high tower ?" said
the knight. "Well, the princess is in
prison at the top little window, and
we cannot get her out without taking
the great city, and that we can never
do"
Then Kyts got a bag of long nails
and q hammer, and put rope around
his waist, and crept along to the bot
tom of the tower, and hammered one
long nail in the wall and stood on it,
and another above that, and another
higher still, like steps, all the way to
the little window at the top, and there
he tied the long rope, and then look
ed in and saw the lovely princess and
asked her to come away and be saved.
So she put OH her shoes and her dress
and came to the window, and asked
Kyts how he ever got up.
sit is all one to me whether | walk
up the steps of the tower oil the in-
side or the outside" said Kyts.
So the lovely princess erept out of
the window, and took firm hold OH
the rope, and put her feet on the long
iron nails, and Kyts steadied her, and
down they came softly and slowly.
"But now what am / to dO?" said
the princess.
"YOu can go to the other army"
answered Kyts.
"But there will he another war;"
said the princess; and would rather
go somewhere and hide. Can't you
find a place, Kyts?"
$50 he led her to his pretty cottage
deep in the wood. Then she kissed
him, and said:
"Dear Kyts, love you better than
all the princes, for you are brave and
kind; so you would, perhaps, have no
objection to marrying me, and here
We could live very happily"
every well" said Kyts, '.just as you
like, for 1 love you better than any
thing in the world"
SO he found bishop who was run
ming away i'm great haste through the
wood, and they were married and
lived together as happily as two pet
birds.
But after time it came to the ears
of the twenty lord mayors who ruled
in the great city instead of the king,
that Kyts had married the young
princess, so they were very angry and
said il was a shame, for he was only
common fellow, and sent an army
of fifty men, and took the princess,
and shut her up in a tower again, and
sentenced Kyts to be killed.
every WELL" said Kyts in the great
hall of Justice, ait is all one to me. If
YOU send me out of one world, l will
20 into another"
"But this favor will we do yOu,' the |
twenty fierce lord mayors said, "yOu
may choose how you will die. Will
YOU be shot, hanged or pOisOned?"
at really does not make any Odds"
ne answered, $50 / may as well be
poisoned"
Now by this time everybody in the
land had heard about jolly Kyts, and
many said it was a shame to kill him. |
So ut night when the soldiers came |
to Kyts with the poison they were so
low-spirited that they brought with
them some bottles of wine to keep up
their spirits.
HsIf YOU do not mind, we may just
as well all have a good supper tOgeth-
er first,n said they ifOr there need be
no hurry with such jolly fellow as
you"
"SVith all my heart, answered Kyts,
"fOr j would just as soon drink wine
as poison"
But at last there was only one glass
of wine left for each, and the glass of
poison for Kyts; and as they all stood
up TO drink this last round, who
should come i'm but the fiercest lord
mayor to see Kyts' dead body.
'iZounds !" cried he. ''SOldiers, you
are drinkingw
For as they heard his steps, each
one tossed off his glass so there was
only Kyts' glass left on the table.
al have drank so much wine that
don't feel thirsty" said Kyts.
"But do" cried the lord mayor,
and he tossed off Kyts' glass and fell
down dead.
"After all" said Kyts, 81 would
! lust as soon he died as me-"
Then, as there was no more poison
left, the soldiers kept Kyts prisoner
| to know what the nineteen lord may
Ors would now like to do. So in the
morning when all the story was told
i'm the hall of Justice, the people laugh
ed, clapped their hands and shouted
with might and main, "LOng live
King Kytsw
So up got lord Mayor and said:
at is quite plain that Kyts is the
right sort of man to be king, for he
would not be proud and obstinate like
the old kings, but would let all things
/ go their own way"
"HOOray ~ cried the people.
"And as he has married the prin-
cess, there is no one with more right
said another mayor.
"But would he want 10 kill us, or
would he let us live~ said another
mayor.
"Whichever you like, replied Kyts,
at will make no odds to me-"
Then everybody cried "HOOray"
'LOng live King Kytsw
And the princess was brought back
from the tower, and Kyts and his
lovely bride were crOwnen and long
did they live, without wars, in peace
and great happiness.
al don't at all mind being a king"
said Kyts, "fOr can be happy any
where. Educational Gazette.
Ex-GOv. Orr, of South Carolina,
having been interviewed by the 7fi-
J,nle reporter, expressed the following