Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-06-12
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Whilst thou and i roam through The fields
a. sidcreeal,
Thou cropping from the pasturagc ethereal
And alighting spend long happy hours
And in Elysian meadowspl pluck star-aowers.
This speech had a happysefsct on Pc
gasus who condescended. to all9w hismas-
ter to mount him, and then-took his flight
to the starry region suggested. From
this period the winged horse and Fred
erick began to grow thebest of comrades;
gradually they learned to humor and
understand each other SO that what. one
wished the other was always willing to
do, and Frederick might now have per.
suaded Pegasus to leap,the golden fence;i
but the pleasure of horsemanship left
him little time to think of anything else,
and when he did remember Helena, he i
reflected that after all Pegasus was his
best friend and he ought not to risk los.
ing him again for the sake Of one, who.
had probably long since forgotten her old
playmate, but often wondered what had
become of him, and whether he wanted
to see her.
OnGday when Frederick, after long
ride, was lying on the grass in n green
meadow with Pegasus browsing near by,.
a'reverend old man who happened to be
passing. spoke to him :
"Good-day, my son" said he. care,
you resting from work or from pleasure
this fine nforning?''
], "From pleasure, father" Answered
Frederick; II have just taken charm
ing ride on this animal of mine"
"A pleasure ride is poor use to- put
such noble creature t6," said the aged,
man..
!, @What would y0tf have me use him
for9 asked Frederick 1. .wodldsnot
lput him to plough OF draw a cart his
spirit is TOO high for such work, es
Il would have you fight the giants
With him." replied the old man; chat is
what he was given to you for"
"But there are no giants now-a-days,"l
said Frederick.
so people say who don't know What
they are talking about" the old man
answered; "but, believe HE, there are
giants enough and they are more mon.
strous and harder to kill than ever thet
were iii the old days. There are giants
who lurk in woods and dens, in the coun-
try, giants hiding in underground cellars
in cities, giants with hundred heads,-
atd hundred hands too to fight, and
hundred feet to run away with,-giants
who; ~hen they are felled to the earth,
spring up, like the one Hurcules fought,
as if they had derived new life from the
contact, and giants whose heads and
limbs grow after they have been cut off.
Oh ycs to be sure there are giants for
those who are brave enough to fight
them"
Now this was work very much to
Frederiek's taste; accordingly he listened
to the old mans Instructions as to where
to find some ofthese giants end hlew9shl.eyy
were to be fought, he profted so we'll by
what he heard, that although; as the old
man told him, the giants now are harder
to kill than they were formerly, yet, with
Pegasus to assist him, he was able TO
kill two or three, and to wound several
others; and all this made him quite fa-
nous AT last, however, very crafty
giant-his name was Misanthropos, aEd
| think he was relation of that giant
Despair, that Great Heart killed-suc-
ceeded in taking him prisoner in his
sleep once; he shut him tip in high
tower where poor Frederick passed many
months in great misery.
"Ah!" sighed he one morning as he
looked out of window of the tower
which his jailor happened to have left
open, knowing that his prisoner would
be dashed TO peices if he leaped out, for
it was hundred feet to the ground,-
"AlHif / had but ladder or rope r.
just then he caught a glimpse of some
thing that looked like great white bird
flying high up in tho clouds. What
should it be, but his faithful Pogasus?-
As soon as he perceived Frederick he