Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-03-15
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One day ZadiG, walking near little wood,
saw, fastening that way, one of the queens
chief cunuchs, followed by troop Of officers,
who appeared to be in the greatest anxiety,
runninp b;.I..- 4,i.''sf rrSe nIcII uisu.ue,t.
in search of some lost treasure.
"Young man," cried the eunuch. have
you seen the queens dog3"
Zadig answered modesily, "a bitch, I
hink /; not dog"
"Quite right" replied the eunuch.
Zadig continued " A very small spaniel,
WHO has lately had puppies; she limps with
The left fore-lee, and has very long ears
"Ah you have seen her, them said the
breathless cunuch.
"No," answered Zadg, g | have not seen
her and really was not aware that the queen
possessed spaniel"
By an old coincidence, at the very same
time, the handsomest horse in the kings sta
bes broke away from his groom in the
Babylonian plains. The great huntsman and
all his staff were seeking the horse with as
much anxiety as was the eunuch and his peo-
pie the spaniel and the grand huntsman asked
Zadig il he had not seen the kings horse 60
that way
"a first-rate galloper, small hooied, five
feet high tail, three and a half feet long
check pieces of the bit OF tweniy-three carat
gold shoes, silver ? y said Zadig.
(which way did he go1 Where is he'
cried the grand huntsman.
81 have not seen anything Of the horse, and
never heard OF him before" replied Zadig.
The grand huntsman and the chief eunuch
made sure that Zadig had stolen both the
kings horse and the queens spaniel; so they
hailed him before the high court OF Desterham,
which at once condemned him to the knoui
and transportation for life to Siberia. But the
sentence was hardly pronounced when the
lost horse and spaniel were found. So the
jadges were under the painful necessity OF re
considering their decision but they fined Zadie
four hundred ounces Of gold for say ing he had
seen that which he had not seen.
The first thing was to pay the fine. After
ward, Zadig was permitted to open his defens,
to the court, which he did in the following
terms: "Stars of justice, abysses Of knowI
edge, mirrors OF truth, WHOSE gravity is n.
that Of lead, whose inilrSibility is as that o
iron, who rival the diamond in clearness, ane
possess great affinity with gold-since an
permitted 10 address your august assembly,
swear by Omusd that have never seen th,
respectable lady-dog OF the queen, nor behels
the sacrosanct horse Of the king OF kings. Thi,
is what happened;
IL was taking walk toward the little WOO,
near which ! subsequently had the honor Il
meet the venerable chief eunuch and the mos
illus,rious grand huntsnian. noticed III,
track Of an animal in the sand, and il was easy
to see that it was that Of a small dog. Long
faint streaks upon the little elvations Of sans
between the footmarks convieed me that /, wa
she-dog, with pendent iugs showing tina
she must have had puppies no, many day
since. Other scraplnes Of sand, which Away
lay close to the marks Of the fore-paws ind
Gated that she had very long ears; and as III
imprin, Of one foot was always fainles thai
those ofthe other three, judged tina, lhe lady
dog OF our august qaeen was, # Imay ventar
to say so, little Lame. With respect to tn
horse OF the king Of kings. PERM, me to oh
serve that, wandering through the paths whicl
traverse the wood, l noticed the marks 9
horse shoes. They were all equidistant.
'Ahr said l, this is a famous gallopes Il
narrow alley only seven feet wide, the daa
upon the trunks Of the trees was a lhll
disturbed at three and half fee, from the mid
die u the path. This horse, said | 10 my
self, had a tail three and half feet hong, an
lashing il from one side to the other. he Ia
s~ep, away the dust. Branches Of the tres
met overhead al the heigh, Of five feet, An
under saw newly fallen Ieavesi 50 knee
that the hon>e had brushed some Il the branch
6, and Was therefore hive feet high. As to hi