Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-21
CANADIAN FOLK-TALE.

CANADIAN FOLK-TALE.
Once upon time, long time ago. there
was very beautiful Princess, and she was
very rich, and of course she had lovers by
the dozen, who used to come to her house
in the evening and play the fiddle and glare
at each other all through the veiLlee until
the King and Queen called from the back
bedroom that it was time for all the young
people to be getting home or what would
the neighbors say?
But many though her lovers were, the
Princess would have none Of them, and
nobody could make out what objection she
could possibly find to one after another of
her suitors. At last, when she had refused
every eligible Prince that there was in the
four parishes, her parents insisted upon
knowing the reason, and she told them
sfss5ir much urging.
,sYou see, dear pa and dear ma, said
the Princess, making rosebud Of the pref.
test little mouth there was in the uni.
verse, II should like husband who was
real affectionate and who could love ne
properly. These young men are all SO
timid that if should marry one of them l
would certainly find that he did not kiss
me and say nice things to me half often
enough, and then | should die of neglect or
be compelled to kiss some one else, and
that would be wrong. So, dear pa and
ma, I have resolved not to marry until
find sweetheart who has two pairs OF lips,
and can give me 100000 kisses every day
in the week and 100000 on Sundays and
feasts of obligation"
Unhappy girl p said the King, taking
off his tuque to scratch his head in his
perplexity, 81 have good mind to"
But at that time the Queen saw the old
SOW and all the little pigs walking in
through the front gate into the garden
where hollyhocks and sunhowers and
onions and beets and carnations and other
flowers were, and they had to catch up the
tongs and call the little yellow dog, Mar
teau, and sally forth, so no one ever knew
what the King had good mind to do.
With the young Princes in that and the
surrounding parishes learned of the Prin-
cess determination they were at first very
Joyous, but after ciphering it out on states
and shingles they came to the conclusion
that, nice as kisses were and pretty as was
the Princess, 100 600 kisses day would
leave them very little leisure for anything
else, and as she had pair of very black
eyes, with fash in them when she was
angry, and could put her little foot down
with force enough to split her sabot, they
felt convinced that if she had made up her
mind to have these kisses and her husband
was unable or unwilling to furnish them,
why
Now, there was young Prince, who
lived away out in the Concessions-the
back parishes, where they only had one
mail week-and so it was good while
before he heard of the Princess and her
beauty, and finally of the remarkable con-
ditions which she had resolved to exact of
her husband. But when he did hear about
her he made - his mind to win her, and
so he went and consulted the Chancellor.
"Do you really love her 30 much ?" said
the Chancellor.
az do" replied the Prince, "and
though l have never seen her | feel SO
drawn toward her that if she will not marry
me will 90 off to Meriden in the Connect
icut and work In the factories. One hun.
dred thousand kisses day and two hun.
bred Thousand on Sunday and .tetes d'obIga.
ton Alas, there are not more than 70
Sundays and holidays in the year But
then it will be leap year soon J"
Every well, my son" said the Chan
cellor "then will tell you how to win
the Princess. Go to the store and bring
half an ell of black velvet and two tobacco
pipes and false mustache, and do thus
and so with them, and then go to the par
ish where the Princess lives and hire your.
self out to the boss of the big saw.mill to
work on the day gang, and all will be
we'll"
So the Prince paid the Chancellor his fee
-four livres and ten sous-and went and
did all that the Chancellor had told them.
And 80 one evening, as the Princess was
standing at the attic windows of the royal
palace, doing up her hair, she looked out
and saw in the sunlight a tall and re-
markably well-built young man, with a
black velvet mask on, leaning negligently
against the fence, smoking two pipes.
By and by an old gentleman came along
and stopped to speak with him, and when
he was answering the old gentleman he
took one pipe out of his mouth respectfully
and went on smoking the other. This sur
prise the Princess, and running to the door
she called the old gentleman to come to
her, and said to him Excuse me, sir,
but who is that young man, and why does
he smoke two pipes ?"
The old gentleman-it was the Chan
cellor-replied lyon are very excusable,
Miss. That is young man who works
on the day gang in the big sawmill, and he
has Sl4 month and his board. He comes
from back In the Concession, and the rea-
son why he wears mask is because he has
two mouths"
1.-TWO mouths cried the Princess, ex-
citedly.
Yes, two mouths. And of course he
does not want to be stared at by every
body, SO he wears that velvet mask.
els he married J" asked she.
HE is not, miss" said the Chancellor,
sand he never will be, for he has vowed
to have no woman for a wife who will be
satisfied with less than 100 900 kisses every
day and 200, 600 on Sundays and tetes d ob-
igdtionl I"
"Oh, heavens /" cried the Princess.
"How fortunate that should have seen
him He and no one else shall be my
husband
So the Chancellor ran and called the
Prince back, and introduced him to the
Princess and her family, and the marriage
was agreed upon. By this time it was
quite dark, and as they were sitting to.
eether on the doorstep the Princess asked
the Prince if really and truly he had two
mouths.
"My dearest, said the Prince, do you
think for q moment that I would be capa-
BILE of deceiving you !"
ssI know there are two holes in the
mask" said the Princess, but they may
be the same lips. Why should you wear
that hateful old mask anyway"
"That ia long story, my dear, he re.
piled, "but viii prove to you that | am
not betraying your confidence. Here p
and slipping off the mask he gave her a
kiss of the frat magnitude. Was that
goods Perhaps you may prefer the other
mouth; some girls, however, object to
mustaches," and slipping on the false mus
tache he gave the Princess another kiss.
az really don't know which is best,