The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-12-12

c1uld scarcely refrain from throwing her
self upon them: so the Prince wished new
er to tell anything. But when the King
was dead, which happened after two years
and the Prince saw himself master, he
publicly declared his marriage, and went
with great ceremony to fetch the Queen.
to the castle. They gave her a magnif-
icent entrance into the city capital between
her two children.
Some time after the King went to make
war upon the Emperor Cantalabutte, his
neighbor He left the regency Of the king
dom to the Queen, his mother, and strong
" recommended to her his wife and chill
dren. He was to be at the war all sum-
mer, and when he was gone the Queen
mother sent her daughter-in-law and her
children to a country house in the forest
to be able more easily to satisfy her horri-
Bile desires. She went there some days
after, and said one evening to her stew
ard, will eat for my dinner tomorrow
the little Aurora, '.Ah! madame" said
the steward, Il wish it." said the Queen
land she said it with the toLe of an ogre
who wishes to eat raw fesh), and 81 wish
" IL Will sduICs AtobCit.
This poor man, knowing well enough
Ogress, 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 his
hands, and he went down into the court
yard to cut the throat Of a little lamb and
made such good sauce for 1t, 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 his wife to conceal
in the room that she had at the end of the
courtyard.
Eight days after the wicked queen said
to her steward, 81 WISH to eat for my
supper the little Jour" He said nothing,
resolved to deceive her again. He went
to find the little Jour, and found him with
little flower in his hand with which he
was fencing with large ape.
He was only three years old He took
him to his wife, who concealed him with
the little Aurora and gave, in place of the
little Jour, little kid very tender, that
the ogress found very good. 1t had gone
very well so far, but one evening this wick
ed queen said to her steward, | wish to
eat the queen with the same sauce as her
children. 1t was then that the poor stew
ard was in despair of deceiving her any
longer. The young queen was past TWEEN.
ty years old, without counting the humid.
red years that she had slept. Her skin
was little hard, although beautiful and
| white, and how to find in the menagerie
a beast as hard as that! He RI solved, in
| order to save his life, to cut the queens
neck and went up to her chamber with
the intention of not having to do il
twice.
He excited himself to fury, and poniard
in hand, entered the chamber of the young
queen. He did not wish to surprise her
| and he told her with much respect the or
der that he received from the Queen moth
er. do it, do, said she holding out hel
| neck to him, execute the order which was
| given to you, shall go to see again my
| children, my poor children, whom | have
| so much loved" She believed them dead
since they had taken them from her with
out telling her anything. mo, no. Mad
am" the poor steward, greatly affected
replied. 'You shall not die, and YOU
shall not go away to see your children. II
is at my home that have concealed them
and will still deceive the Queen by max
ing her eat young hind in your stead.
| He led her Immediately to his apartments
where, leaving her to embrace her chill
dren, and to weep with them, he went t.
dress hind, that the Queen should eat fol
her supper. with the same appetite as if il
had been the young queen.
1 Sln ,rall oat,SHad xr-lfh no,
cruelty, and she prepared to say to the
mad deyoured the Queen, his wife, and hi,
| children.
One evening, as she was meandering as
usual in the court and lower court of the
castle, to smell some fresh meat, she heard
in the lower hall the little Jour, who was
| crying because the Queen, his mother
wished to whip him because he had beer
naughty, and she heard, also, the little
Aurora, who asked pardon for her brother
| The ogress recognized the voices Of the
Queen and of the children, and, furiou:
at having been deceived, she commanded
the next day in the morning. with terri
BILE voice which made all the world trem
BILE. that there should be brought into the
middle of the courtyard great vat, that
i she orutrtu 10 DE Hlltu WIFI tOdus, SlpeTs,
| adders and serpents, 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 executioners were preparing to throw
them into the vat, when the King, whom
no one expected so soon, entered the court.
yard on horseback. He had come post
haste. and very much astonished, demand
ed what this horrible spectacle meant. Nc
one dared inform him. when the ogress
enraged at seeing what she did. threw her
self head first into the vat, and was de-
voured in a 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
soled himself with his beautiful wife and
children.
Sins Of High Life.
From the Boston He1nld.
| Rev. Henry Morgan delivered. in Musi,