Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1878-12-12

/ hcf TWO CnlluTen.
Some time after the King went to maxi
war upon the Emperor Cantalabutte, hi
neighbor. He left the regency ofthe king
dom to the Queen, his mother, and strong
| " recommended to her his wife and chlI
dren. lie was to be at the war all sum
mer, and when he WIS goue the Queen
mother sent her daught and be,
children to country house in the lores
to be able more easily to satisfy her horn
ble desires. She went there some day
after, and said one evening to her stew
ard, will eat Tor NY dinner tomorrow
the little Aurora, "Ah! madame, said
the steward, 81 wl.h it, " said the Queen
Oand she said it with the tone Of AN ogre
who wishes to eat raw flesh, and 81 wish
to eat it with sauce, Robert.
This poor man, knowing well enough
that it would not do to trltle with an
ogrcss, took his large knife, and went up
to The little Aurora's room.
She was then four years old, and came
jumping and smiling to throw herself ON
his neck and to ask him for bonbOEs. He
began to weep, the knife fell from ms
hands, and he went down into the court
yard to cut the throat Of Il little lamb and
made such good sauce for it, that his
mistress assured him she had never eaten
anything so good.
At the same time he carried the little
Aurora and gave her to hls wiieto conceal
in the room that she had at the end Of the
courtyard.
Eight days after the wicked queen said
to her steward. 81 wSsh to eat for my
supper the little Jour- He smdnothing,
resolved to deceive her again. lie went
to find the little Jour, and found him with
Il little flower in his hand with which he
was fencing with large ape.
He was only three years Old lie tool;
him to his wife, who concealed him with
the little Aurora and gave, in pl zee of the
little Jour, httIc kid very tender, that
the ogrc,, found very good. 1t had gone
very well so far, but one evening tins wick
rd queen said to her steward, ! wish to
eat the queen with the same sauce as her
children. It was then that the poor stew
ard was in despair Of dcceiving her any
longer. The young queen was past TWEEN
ty years Old, without counting the hund-
red years that She had slept Her skin
was little hard. although beautiful and
white. and how to find in the mrnagcrie
beast as hard as that, Hen solved, IN
order to save his life, TO cut the queen S
neck and went mp to her chamber with
the intention Of not having to do it
twice.
He excited himself to fury, and poniard
in hand, entered the chamber Of thcyOung
queen. He did not wi,hto surprise her,
and he told her with much respect the or
der that he received from the Queen moth
en- "Do it, do, said she holding out her
neck to him, "cycrutr the order which was
given to you, | shall Go to see again my
children, my poor children, whom have
50 much loved She believed them dead,
since they had taken them from her with
out telling her anything. "No, no, Mad
am, the poor steward, greatly affected,
replied. "Nua shall not die. aud you
shah not 70 away 10 sec yOur children. !,
is atmy home that hayeconccalrd them,
and will still deceive the Queen by max
ing her eat young hind in your stead.
He led her Immediately to lis apartments,
where. leaving her to embrace her chill
Clren, and to weep with them, he went to
dress hind. that the Queen should eat for
her supper with the same appetite as if it
had been the young queen.
She was very well satisfied with her
cruelty, lSI,l She prepared IL say 10 the
King ON his return, that cnraged wolves
had dcvoured the Queen, his wife, and his
children.
One evening, ~ She was molndcriug rs
usual in the court and lower court Of the
castle. To smell some fresh meat, she heard
in the lower hail tine little Jour, who was
crying because the Queen, his mother,
wished TO whip HIM because he had been
naughty, and she heard, also, the little
Aurora, who asked pardon Tor her brotb'r.
The ugrrss recognized the voices ot the
Queen and of the children, and, furious
ut having been deceived, she commanded,
the next day in the morning, with a terri
BILE voice which made all the world trem-
bic. that there should be brought into the
middle Of the courtyard great vat, that
She ordered to be filed with toalS, vipers,
allcrs and scrpCntS. in which to throw
the Queen and her children, the steward,
his wife, and her servant. She had given
orders to lead them with their hands tied
behind their backs. They were there, and
the eXccutioncrs were preparing to throw
them into the vat, when the King, whom
no one expected 50 soon, entered the court
yard on horseback. He had come post
haste and very much astonishcd, demand
ed what this horrible spectacle meant. No
one dared inform him, when the ogress,
enragrd al seeing what she did, threw her
self head first into the vat, and was de-
yourcd in Il moment by the vile creatures
that she had ordered put in it.
The King was not without sorrow over
it; she was his mother; but he soon con-
soed himself with his beautiful wife and
children,