Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
THE EBONY PRINCE.
ERNEST H. HEINRIcHs.

ren's mansion next morning when 1t was
discovered that the ebony visitors had all
disappeared However, this was not all
yet. Soon after it was also found out that
the 'Squire's daughter had gone. Conster-
nation reigned supreme now. Nv here
could she be? What was to be done? =
these were the questions that were asked by
everybody, but no one knew an answer.
Not sign of her could be traced any
where, and after long and irultlesS
search everybody retired in grief and
mourninp. The old Squire and his wife
were almost heartbroken. They had never
met with a calamity OF such enormity dur
ing all their lives, and this was too hard
and too sudden for them to bear. The
'Souire's son ran all around the forest in
despair. He had hunted the country high
and low, but all in vain, and when he came
home and found his parents exhausted with
CRYING and mourning at the loss OF their
child, he did not know what to DO. AT
last he went to his father and told him to
keep up his courage, because he meant to
go and find his sister.
sGiye me six months to find her, and if
do not return with her, or at least some
tidings from her, then We will give her up
as dead"
The Squire promised and the son went
away. He travelled for miles and miles
over q hundred counties, but still in vain,
not a word did he hear about his sister nor
could he find out where the Ebony King
dom was. One day he was high up on a
very high mountain to look around and see
where he ought to go to next He was
tired, and after a while he fell asleep on the
mountain. Suddenly noise like the flap
ping of wings awakened him. He looked
up and he saw an enormous big eagle soar
ing over him. When the bird noticed that
the young man was awake he let himself
down on the ground and coming toward
him the eagle said: "Who are you?"
The 'Souire's son told the eagle who he
was, where he came from, and all about
himself
$50 you want to go to the Ebony King
dom?'' he said. "Well, my boy, do not
think you will ever get there unless you
can fy"
SIS it so far?"
"Yes it is. Now. look here, young man,
seeing that you are SO devoted to your father
and mother, and anxious that they find
their daughter again, 1 will help you. 1
will give you the power to change yourself
into an eagle whenever you want to. Here
take this feather and push it in your arm
until it bleeds. As soon as the blood flows
you will be an eagle. Then when you want
10 cnd0ge yOurSeli again pun Oub buO siAAN
feather of your left wing and you will have
your human shape again"
The Young man at once did as the eagle,
who by this time vanished, had told him.
In few minutes he found himself to be
large and enormous eagle. He spread his
wings and few up from the ground. 1t was
a delightful sensation to be able to course
through the air with the rapidity and swift
ness of an arrow. "Now shall soon find
the Ebony Kingdom" he said to himself,
because 1 believe can fly around the
world in a month"
he raced through the air for whole week
without resting once All the food he had
during this time were couple of pigeons,
whom he passed and gobbled up during his
flight. At last, after about two weeks he
felt that his strength was beginning to leave
him somewhat, so he resolved to make for
the nearest mountain and rest In the dis
tance he noticed the Cordilleras los Andes
along the Pacific Ocean, and he thought he
would be all right there for rest. But
when he came closer to the mountains he
discovered a lot of people wherever he
looked. He also noticed that all these peo-
pie were as black rs ebony. He went closer,
and he was now directly above magnii-
cent palace where thousands of people ran
hither and thither. He went still closer,
and he now recognized that they were all
dressed like the black knights at his sisters