The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-07-09
THE THREE SISTERS WITH GLASS
HEARTS.

There are certainly people who have
ylass hearts. Ii one taps them gently they
sound like silver bells, bur IL one hits them
hard they break HI two.
Now there was once king and queen
who had three daughters. and all three
had glass hearts. "Children,' said the
queen. take care of your hearts. they are
brittle things" And this they did
But one day as the elder sister was
leaning ont OF the window. looking down
into the garden at the bees and butterflies
flying about among the flowers. she
pressed little too hard on her heart. and
lt gave crack just like something break
ing, and the princess fell down dead
A short time afterward the second sis.
ter drank cup Of very hot coffee. Then
again n srack was heard, like ri is
breaking: but Il was not quite so loud as
the other, and this princess too fell to the
ground. Her mother raised her up. and
on examining her carefully saw, TO her
great joy, that she was not dead; her
heart had only got a crack In it; II was not
broken IN two.
What had we better do with our
daughter now ~ said the king and queen
70 one another. 'She has got crack in
her heart. ana even though il Is quite
small one. Vet the heart would very easily
break right in two. We mus. take very
great care Of her"
BUT the princess said. "Oh, don't
bother; the thing which has got crack
i'm it is often just the very one which lasts
longest
In The mean time the youngest daughter
too had grown up, and had become so
beautiful and coed aud clever that the
princes flocked from all sides TO seek her
in marriage. But the old king had grown
81 az -. I
have only enc whole daughter left. and
she too has glass heart. II l give her TO
any body. he must be king who at the
same time j. a glaZier. and understands
such breakable things" But among all
the many princes there was not one who
had devoted himselfte glass-working, so
they all had 10 pack off.
New among the kings pages at the cas-
tie there was one who had almost served
his time. He had only to carry the train.
OF the kings youngest daughter three
times more in order to become a noble
man. Then the king would congratulate
him, and say. Now you have finished,
and are nobleman; / thank you; yeu
are at liberty TO go"
When he carried the princess's train the
first time he saw that she had very
Queenly step. When he did il a second
time the princess said 10 him, "Let my
train go moment, and give me your
hand, and conduct me up tlc steps; but
be gentle, as a page ought TO be who leads
the daughter OF king When he did
this he saw that she had very queenly
hand. She too noticed something, but
what ii was | will not say at present.
When he carried her train for the last
time she turned round and said TO him.
:. How charmingly you carry my train
ha. Ion II ,ia lxvh at.
Then the page noticed that she spoke i'm
very queenly manner. But now his du-
ties were over, and he was nobeman
The king thanked him. and congratulated
him. and said he might go.
As he went the princess stood at the
garden gate, and said TO him, "You have
carried my train more charminrly than
any one ever did before. Would that you
were glazier and king ~
Then he answered that he would do all
he could to become both. She must wait
for him; he would be sure to come back
again some day.
80 he went 10 a glazier, and asked him
II be had place for glazier boy. Scr
taiuly," answered he; "but you must
stay with me four years. In the first year
you will fetch the bread from the bakers,
wash and dress the children, and do their
hair. In the second year you will learn to
hll up the chinks with putty; In the third
10 cut and put In glass; and In the fourth
you viii become glazier."
Then the prince asked him If he could
not begin at the end. for that would be so
srDnch quicker. But the gazier assured
chin that a proper gazier must always be-
gin at the beginning, or he would do no
good At his trade.
80 the prince had to content himself
with this. In the first year he fetched the
bread from the bakers. washed and dress
ed the children, and combed their hair: in
the second he filed up the chinks with
putty; In the third he learned to out and
put In glass; and in the fourth he became
glazier.
One day after this. as he was going
along the street In deep thought, with his
eyes fixed on the pavement, man came
mp to him, and asked IL he had lost any
thing. as he went along with his eyes on
the ground and he replied, No; he had
not lost any thing; but still he was look
ing for something, namely, kingdom ;
and he asked the man II he knew how
one ought to begin In order to become a
king.
'lf you were glazier,- said the man, 81
might know how toadvise YOU"
That u exactly what l am, answered
ne and have just finished my appren-
tceship.m
On his saying this the man told him the
'atory OF the three sisters with the glass