The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-15
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When Batopoulo returned he found
his wife greatly changed and took a
strong dislike to her, so he spent the
whole day in roo n apart, with his
child. One day little bird flew in to
them and fondled them both with It's
wings; and then it began to sing:
| Sweet be the slumbers of the king!
| Night bear his child on downy wing.
But let the gypsy woman lie
Full many an hour with SleepleSs eyel
One day the false queen heard the
words and she said to Bastopoulo:
. Are you not going to tell some one
to kill this bird, which deafens US day
after day ?"
" shall never give you the pleasure,
replied the king, for | while away nv
time with that bird"
But the queen pressed him every day
| to kill it, and in the end, wearied out,
he let her have her way. She instantly
| ordered her servants to seize the bird
and kill it, but they were to take care
not to let single drop of its blood fall
to the ground.
The servants did not attend to her,
and drop of blood tell down, aud from
this drop tree of great beauty grew up
Ohe day the king went into his gar
den, and, seeing this wonderful tree, sat
down under the shade OF its leaves. Then
the tree dropped down its long branches,
clo-ing them about the king and the
king was so much delighted that he did
not move from it, and returned every
day to sit there with his son.
The queen also took it into her head
to sit in the same place; but the tree,
dropping its branches, parted its leaves
and pricked her with its thorns.
Then she turned to the king and asked
him to cut it down.
AT first the king refused, but at last
he ended by consenting. SO she ordered
her servants to cut it down by the roots,
and not to give the smallest piece to any
one.
A old woman, who was passing, asked
them to give her branch to light her
fire, but in vain Then the old woman
snatched branch and ran away.
When she got home she forgot to put it
on the fire and left it in the corner.
Every morning the old woman went
out marketing One day. when she came
back, she found the house put straight,
the fire lighted and the floors swept She
asked her neighbors if they had seen
any one enter the house, but no one bad
done so. On the following day, and every
day afterwards, the same thing took
place.
Once she pretended to go out, and hid
herself in the house, i'll order to keep
watch. Then she saw a woman, as beau
tiful as Nereid, coming out of the
branch and she Immediately clasped
her in her arms.
After that these two women remained
together, and the elder one felt a great
love for her companion, who was so beau
tifuI and 50 good.
The news spread about that the old
woman had in her house a lady as beauti-
ful as Nereid. The king himself heard
of it and sent for the old woman to ques-
ton her. Then the old woman told him
all that she knew.
Bastopoul0 at once guessed that it was
his wife, and he sent for her.
SO she told him from the beginning all
that had happened to her, and he i'm
mediately ordered that her sister should
be tied to two strong horses and thai the
horses should be whipped until they had
torn her to pieces 70: having pretended
to Be the queen.
And - y lived very happily.