The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-09-18

and seizing one, and rising again,
soon became mere speck in the
clouds.
Now this bit of theft on the part
of the eagle, became the turning
point in the militant career Of Rho
dopis The bird Immediately direct
ed his fight over the Delta, and
away up the Nile to Memphis, the
capital of Egypt, and the seat of
Psammetichus the King, and there
he dropped the sandal at the foot of
the judgment throne If the King.
The monarch was sitting in the
open air, dispensing justice to his
subjects, and being exhausted with
the heat and dullness of the pro-
ceedings, set him about to draw
pictures in his Imagination. In
thought he erected for himself a
magnificent palace, over which he
placed in queenship an ideal beauty.
He was just painting her as having
the eyes of the gazelle, the voice of
the nightingale, the litheness of the
panther, and the tread of a goddess,
when 10, the sandal fell plump at his
feet. Astonishment robbed him of
all dignity, for he jumped up and
shouted, "An omen! an omen! He
Immediately dismissed the court.
When in the seclusion of his own
apartment, he after scanning the
dainty little sandal for some time,
concluded it was an act of the gods,
who desiring to make his hearts
wish come true, had taken this way
of showing their intention. He ac-
cordingly without further to do, set
about erecting superb palace, and
despatched a messenger down the
Nile, with the slipper, bidding him
in every city to cause it to be pro-
claimed that "whosoever the sandal
fitted, and who had the fellow, and
who could explain the symbols on
the soles thereof, should come to him
and be his queen" With a mighty
retinue, and in right royal pomp and
splendor the messenger set upon
his mission.
For many months he searched in
vain, there was not a woman or
maiden in the whole of the kingdom,
but endeavored to thrust her foot
into the sandal but without avail.
The Kings Palace had been COM
pleted, and his heart had grown
weary of the delay, and he des-
paired of ever finding its lovely
owner.
At last the royal messenger
reached Naucratis, and the news of
the proclamation reached the ears
of Rhodopis, as she sat in the midst
of her guests, at one of those Lucul-
liam banquets, she so delighted in
giving. Instantly she ordered the
messenger to be brought to her pre-
sence, for having now remembered
the shape of her sandal, she had no
doubt, but that the fellow of it, was
the one sought for. When the
messenger bowing lowly at the foot
stool of her chair, presented the
sandal, she not only thrust her
dainty little foot into it, but laugh
ingly cried: "Here is the fellow,
and for this do l wear the symbols
on the soles. AS Greece is captive
to my beauty, so shall Egypt be,
and Egypt's King!" There was
great rejoicing thereat in her house
hold, and the dancing men and sing
ing girls, made merry the hours un-
til the sun was high.
The next morning Rhodopis with
great pomp and ceremony repaired
with the messenger to Memphis,
where Psammetichus almost heart
sick with waiting, fell a captive to
her beauty, and in accordance with
his promise, took her to wife, and
thus was the Greek slave, given q
seat on the throne of the Pharoahs,
and made Queen of all Egypt.
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