The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-04-26
MORAL.


You very soon will rue it.
=" Jnck-j1-the-Pulpit," st. Nicholas for May.
he King of NimpOrte's Meeting with His
Bride.
Once upon a time-if my memory
arves me correctly it was in the year 81
His Intensely-Serene Altogether.
notwithstanding Highness the King
{ Nimporte was reclining in his royal
alace. The casual observer Though il
lust be said that casual observers were
) rigidly excluded from the palace Of
.importe as if they had been trampsI
light easily have noticed that His Males
, was displeased
The fact is, if His Majesty had been q
tile boy, he would have been whipped
id sent to bed for the sulks but, even
lring this early period Of which I am
iting, the strangeness of things had
ached such a pitch that, in the very
oment at which this story opens, the
ng of Nimporte arose from his couch,
lied by the shoulders his Grand Vizier
Tho was not at all in the srlks, but was
deavoring, as best he could, to smile
)m the crown of his head to the soles
I his feet), and kicked him down stairs.
AS the Grand Vizier reached the lowest
9p in the course of his tumble, a courier
Vered with dust was in the act of put
lg his foot upon the same. But the
rec of the Grand Vizier's fall was such
to knock both the courier's legs from
lder him and as, in the meantime, the
rand Vizier had wildly clasped his arms
ound the courier's body, to arrest his
yn descent, the result was such a mis-
llaneous rolling of the two men that
+ a moment no one was able to distin-
lish which legs belonged to the Grand
izier and which to the courier.
Has she arrived? ?" asked the Grand
izier, as soon as his breath came.
eyes," said the courier, already
lstening up the stairs.
At this magic word, the Grand Vizie1
gain threw his arms around the courier,
ssed him, released him, whirled him
If about like teetotum, leaped into
ne air and cracked his heels thrice be-
ore again touching the earth, and said
"Allah be praised Perhaps now we
lall have some peace in the palace
In truth, the King of Nimporte had
cen waiting two hours for his bride,
HON he had never seen for, accord.
lg to custom, one of his great lords had
cen sent to the court of the brides
ather, where he had married her by
roxy for his royal master, and whence
e was now conducting her to the pal
ce. For two hours the King of MIN.
'orte had been waiting for courier tc
rrive and announce to him that the
avalcade was on it's last days march
ver the plain, and was fast approaching
Ire city.
AS soon as the courier had delivered
lis message, the King kicked him down
stairs (for not arriving sooner, Hi
Majesty incidentally remarked), and or
Tered the Grand Vizier to cause tn At
strip of velvet carpet should be laid from
he front door of the grand palace, ex
ending a half-mile down the street il
he direction of the road by which tn
,avalcade was approaching; adding tina
t was his royal intention to walk thi
distance, for the purpose of giving hi
bride more honorable reception thai
my bride of any King of Nimporte ha'
ever before received.
The Grand Vizier lost no time in carry
ng out his instructions, and in a sho1
lime the King appeared stepping alon
The carpet in the stateliest manner, fol
owed by vast and glittering retinue Q
,ourtiers, and encompassed by multi
judes of citizens who had crowded to Sc
he pageant.
AS the King, bareheaded and bare
looted (for at this time everybody wen
barefoot in Nimporte), approached tn
end of the carpet, he caught sight of hi
bride, who was but few yards distan
On her milk-white palfrey.
Her appearance was so ravishingl
beautiful that the King seemed at frs
dazed, like a man who has looked at til
sun; but, quickly recovering his wits
he threw himself forward, in the ardc
of his admiration, with the intention {
to his bride and dropping o
one knee at her stirrup, while he woul
gaze into her face with adoring humility
And as the King rushed forward wit
this impulse the populace cheered wit
the widest enthusiasm at finding hi
thus capable Of the feelings of an ord
nary man.
But in an instant a scene of the wilde.
connection ensued. At the very fir
step which the King took beyond the en-
of the carpet his face grew suddenl
white, and, with loud cry Of pain,
fell fainting to the earth. He was imm
diately surrounded by the anxious cour
iers; and the court physician, after fee
ing his pulse for several minutes, an
nquiring very carefully Of the Graz
Vizier whether His Majesty had on TIL
day eaten any green fruit, was in the a
OF announcing that it was a violent a
tack of very Greek disease, indee
when the bride (who had dismounted al
run 70 her royal lord with wifely devotion