Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-09

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door OF the grand palace, extending d
half-mile down the street 10 the direction
of the road by which the cavalcade was
approaching; adding that it was his
royal Intention to walk this distance, for
the purpose Of giving his bride a more
honorable reception than any bride Of
any king of Nimpore had ever before
received. ..... ..-r.. s.....
The grand vizier lost no time in carry
ing out his instructions, and in a short
time the king appeared stepping along
the carpet IN the stateliest manner, fol-
lowed by q vast and glittering retinue
of courtiers, and encompassed by multi
tudes OF citizens who had crowded to
see the pageant. ....
AS the king, bareheaded and barefoot
ed (for at this time everybody went
barefoot IN Nimportc), approached the
end Of the carpet, he caught sight Of his
bride, who was but few yards distant
on her milk-white palfrey.
Her appearance was 50 ravishingly
beautiful, that the king seemed at first
dazed, like a man who has looked at the
sun; but, quickly recovering his wits, he
threw himself forward, in the ardor of
his admiration, with the intention of
running to his bride and dropping on one
knee at her stirrup, while he would gaze
into her face with adoring humility.
And as the king rushed forward with this
impulse, the populace cheered with the
widest enthusiasm at finding him thus
capable of the feelings Of an ordinary
man.
But in an instant scene of the wild
est connection ensued. At the very first
step which the king took beyond the end
of the carpet, his face grew suddenly
white, and, with loud cry of pain, he
fell fainting to the earth. He was i'm
mediately surrounded by the anxious
courtiers; and the court physician, after
feeling his pulse for several minutes, and
inquiring very carefully of the grand
vizier whether his majesty had on that
day eaten any green fruit, was in the act
of announcing that it was violent
attack of q very Greek disease indeed,
when the bride (who had dismounted
and run to her royal lord with wildly
devotion) called the attentson of the ex-
cited cOurtiers to his majesty's left great
toe 1t was Immediately discovered
! that, IN his first precipitate step from off
the carpet to the bare ground, his
majesty had set his foot upon very
rugged pebble, the effect of which upon
tender feet accustomed to nothing but
velvet, had caused him to swoon with
pain ihia'E y. 97la ... -.
As soon as the King of Nimporte
opened his eyes in his own palace, where
he had been quickly conveyed and min
istered to by the bride, he called his
trembling grand vizier and inquired to
whom belonged the houses at that por-
ton of the street where his unfortunate
accident had occurred. Upon learning
the names Of these unhappy property
owners, he Instantly ordered that they
and their entire kindred should behead-
ed, and the adjacent houses burned for
the length Of a quarter of a mile. dufr
The king further instructed the grand
vizier that he should instantly convene
the cabinet of councillors and devise with
them so means of covering the Whole
earth with leather, in order that all pos
sibility of such accidents to the kings of
Nimporte might be completely prevented,
adding, that # the cabinet should fail,
not only in deyising the plan, but in
actually carrying it out within the next
three days, when the whole body Of
! councillors should be executed on the
very spot where the kings foot was
bruised .t... ar.,.
Then the king kissed his bride, and
was very happy.-,St. Nicholas. ~