The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-02-24

unuerstADus now 10 DAke lt-At least, 10
bake 1t TO a turn, 30 that it Is neither too
hard nor too soft, but Just crisp enough.
The condition Is, the Princess must know
how 10 bake gingerbread"
The Lord Chamberlain was terribly
frightened on hearing this, but he managed
to say that, without doubt, tuch u princess
could be found.
"Very well" said the King; ''suppose VIC
begin the search together" And that after.
noon, in company with the Lord Chamber
lain he visited all the neighboring sover.
eigns who were known to have spare prin.
ceeses to give away. Among them all were
but three who were both wise and beauti'
full enough to please the King. And,
unhappily, non Of them could bake gin.
gerbread!
II can not make gingerbread, but I can
make the incest little almond cakes you
ever saw" said the first Princess. "Won't
that du?"
"No, it must be gingerbread" said the
King.
The second Princess, when the King
asked her, made up a dreadful face, and
said angriiy, There is not a princessin the
world who can bake gingerbread ginger,
bread, indeed"
The King Jared worst when be asked the
third Princess, though she was the wisest
and fairest OF all. She gave him no chance
TO ask his question; ever before he had
opened his mouth, she demanded II he
could play on the trombone. When he &C.
kDowledged that he could not, she said that
she was really sorry, but she could not
marry him as he wouldn't suit She liked
him well enough, but she dearly loved to
hear the trombone played, and she had
decided never to marry any man who
couldn't play it.
The King drove home with the Lord
Chamberlain, and as be stepped out OF the
carriage he said, quite discouraged, $50 we
are about as far in u plans as we were
before"
However, as a king must have a queen,
after a time he sent for the Lord Chamber.
lain again, and-acknowledged that he had
resigned the hope OF marrying a princess
who could bake gingerbread. ~ will
marry the Princess who can bake nice lit
tie almond cakes" he added. "Go, and
ask her il she will be my wife,"
When the Lord Chamberlain returned,
the next day, he told his majesty that the
Princess was no more to be had, as she
had already married.
So the Lord Chamberlain was sent tothe
second Princess, but he came back equally
unsuccessful, for the King, her father, re-
regretted to say that his daughter was
dead.
Alter this the King pondered a good
deal, but as he really wished to have a
queen, he commanded the Lord Chamber
lain 10 60 to the third Princess. perhaps
she has changed her mind" he thought.
The third Princess received the Lord
Chamberlain very graciously, and re-
marked that she had once decided never
to marry a man who could not play on the
But that was q dream,-a
youthful, idle dream, she sighed a hope
never TO be realized,-and az she liked the
King In spite Of this drawback, why-she
would marry him.
The Lord Chamberlain whipped up his
horses and tore down the road to the pal.
ace. where the King, ovefjoyed at the good
tidings, embraced his faithful servant, and
gave him as reward all sorts Of toy crosses
and stars Ia wear at his breast, and about
fifteen yards Of ribbon to wind about his
neck and shoulders.
The wedding vas splendid. The whole
city was gay with flags and banners, and
garlands hung in huge festoons from house
10 house; and for two whole weeks nothing
else was thought Of and talked about.
The King and Queen lived 80 happily to.
for a year that the King had quite
forgotten about the gingerbread and the
Queen about the trombone. Unhappily,
one morning, the King got out Of bed with
his left foot foremost, and that day all
things went wrong. So it happened that
the royal pair quarreled for the FIRST time
though they conldnot have told the reason
why. In short, the King was cross, and
the Queen was snappish and insisted on
having the last word.
at Is about time that you ceased finding
fault with everything" the Queen said nj
last, with great scorn, struggling her
shoulders. "Why, you can't even play on
the trombone"
Sand you can't bake gingerbread" the
King retorted, quick as a fl sh.
For the first time the Queen did not
know whatto cay, and so, without any other
word, they went to their separate rooms.
The Queen threw herself on the sofa and
wept bitterly. "What q little fool you art!'
she sobbed. "Where isyour common sense?
You couldn't have been more stupid il you
had tried"
As for the King, he strobe up and down
the room rubbing bis hands. ut is iorlu.
nate that my vile can't make gingerbread, y
he thought, gleefully, "for II she could,
what should l have answered when she
said that l couldn't play on The tromboneH"
The more he thought, the more cheerful
he became. He whistled q faverite tune,
looked at the great picture OF his wife over
the mantel, and then, climbing upon q
chair, he brushed away a cobweb that was
dangling over the nose Of the Queen.
slow angry she must have been, poor
little womaD!" he said at last Suppose
l see what she Is doing"
He stepped into the long. corridor into
which all the rooms opened, and it beinl
the day when all things went wrong, the
groom Of the chambers bad forgotten e
light the entry.lamp, though it was eight
o'clock at night and pitch dark. The King
went cropping forward, with his handi
stretched out for lear Of falling, when sud
denly he touched something very soft.
"Who Is there 7" he demanded.
ut Is l." said the Queen.
"What are you in search OF, my dear 2
~ wanted to beg your pardon-I wa
very unkind," she sobbed.
"Pray don't my love-" tho King said, II
bis very gentlest tone Of voice. at wal
my fault; but all Is forgotten. One thing
let me say, however, my dear: there ar
two words which must never be uttered IL
our kingdom on pain Of death-trombone
and"
a.Ginserbread,,n the Queen added
laughing, though she stsalthily brushe,
Away atom.