The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-12
THE PRINCES swRRraKARr.
sY HkLKN ausr JACKSON ("R,H."

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 She va. very young No man had ever made love to her before. Sae be- longed to the people, the common people Her parents were poor, and could rot buy Any wedding troussean sos her. But that did not n -ke any d'tter' euce 4 carriage vas sent from the Court for her, and she was carried away "jnst as sue was," in her stud gown the gown the prince first saw her i'I He liked her best in that, he said and moreover. what odds did 1t make about clothes Were there not rooms upon rooms tn the palace, fuli of most superb clothes for Princes Sweethearts!
 lt was into one of these rooms that she was taken fist On all sides of W were high glass cases reaching up to the ceil- ,nS and 6lied win gowns, and mantles and laces, and jewels; everything a woman could wear was there, and all ot the very finest. What satins, what vel. vets, what feathers and fiowersl Even down to shoes and stockings, ot the daintiest silk. The Little SSeetheart 2 ,Hed, bFeathless, at the n all. But she ( i'd not have time to wonder, for m moment she was met by attendants, some young, some old, ali dressed gayly. She did not dream at Grst that they were ser !. wants, till they began Altogether, asking her what she would like to put on. Would she have lace gown. or satin 2 Would she like feathers or fiowersf Aud one TAn this way, anu oaa iaat AR d among them all tho Little SSectheart was so dastered she did not knoS II she were really alive and on the earth, or had been transported to some fairy land and be. tore she faiIly real d what vas being done they had her clad in the most oeau- tliul gown that vas ever seen. White satin with gold butterflies on it, and a white lace mantle embroidered iu gold outte,t1 es; all white and gold she was rom top to toe, all but one foo, and there was something very odd about iha,. She heard one of the women whis pering to the other, beh,nd her back:
 its too bad there isn't any mate to this slipper, Well. >he sill have 10 wear ,ais sink one. It is too big, but # we pin tt up at the heel she can keep it on The prince must really get some more slippers"
 And then they put on her foot pink satin slipper, which was so much too big that it had to be pinned up in plaits a, each side, and the pearl buc kle on top hid her foot quite out of sight Bat the Little Sweetheart did not care. In fact she had no time to think, for the queen came sailing in aud spoke to her. and crowds of la Jies in dresses SO bright and beautiful that they dalIled her eyes anu Ihe prince was there kissing her, and in l I min n A fh aVPtAA and nt Hoating of in dance, which was so s~ift it did not feel so much like dancing as it dld like being carried through the ar bv gentle wind.
 Through room after room there seemed no end to the rooms. and each one more beautiful than the last from garden to garden, some full of trees, some ~ith beautiful lakes in them, some full of solid beds of il overs. they went, some times dancing, metimes walking some tunes, it seemed 10 the L'tle Sweetheart il ,4tipg Every hour there was some beautiful thipg to see some new beauu. ful thing to do. And the prince never left her for more than few minutes and when he came back he brought he, gifts and kissed her Gifts upon gifts he kept bringing. till the Little Sweetheart s hands were so full she had to lay the things down on tables or window-sills wherever she could ind places for them which vas not easy, br all the rooms were SO full of beautiful things that it was difficult to move about without knockin Y something down.
 The hours flew by like minutes. The sun came up high ID the heavens, but no- body seemed ured nobody stopped dance, dance, whirl, song and laug hter a ceaseless motion. That was all th ., was to be seen or heard in this wonderful Court 10 which the Little 5 Sweetheart had been brought.
 Noon came, but nothing stopped Moody lett of dancing, and the musi. clans played faster than ever.
 Aud SO it was all the long afternoon and through the twilight; and as soon as it was really dark, all the rooms and the gtrdens, and the lakes blsz d out with millions of lamps till it was lighter far than day, and the ladies dresses, as they danced back and forth, shone and sparkled like butterflies wings
 At last the lamps beg an, one by one, to go out, and by degree, a soft sort os light, like moonlight, settled down on tue whole place, and the fine dressed servants that had robed the Little Sweet heer in her white satin took il of, and put her to bed in gold bedstead, with golden silk sheets.
 "Onl" thought the Little -cetheart. "I shal! never go to sleep in the world ; and I'm sure don't want to! l shall just keep my eyes open all night and see what happens next ["
 All the beautiful clothes she had taken of wese lad on sofa near the oed-ihe white satin dres at top, and the big pink satin slipper. with its huge pearl buckle, on the 4 A,or, in plain s,ght. ' Where is the other 2 though, the Litle Sweetheart. "l do believe lost it of That the way they come to have so many odd ones Bat, how queer lost of the tight one Bat the big one was pinned to my foot" she siid, speaking ou. lcr q before she thought. That was what