Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
and that Her Royal Majesty betrayed signs
of slavish origin. If the British monarch
was angry, he was also curious, before pro-
nouncing Judgment, he investigates.
AN O'ER TRUE TALE.


He found that the bread was the product
OF wheat grown on bloody 6attleheld; tnat
rusty swords were in the well from whence
the water was drawn; that the meat was the
flesh Of hogs that had tasted human flesh;
that he himself, much to his own surprise,
was the son of a serf, and that his royal
spouse was almost equally unfortunate as to
origin. Hamlet's reputation is made. De
lighted with the wit and wisdom of his guest,
the King forthwith bestows upon him the
hand of his daughter in marriage, and
strings up the unfortunate companions de
voyage on the same day.
A years sojourn in England determines
Hamlet to revisit Jutland. He arrives in
time to break in on the celebration of his
own funeral rites; for, by his own contriVing,
the news of his supposed death has got
abroad. For this Hamlet had a purpose, re-
vealed later on. The funeral least is, Of
course, turned into one congratulatory.
Hamlet joins the festivities, makes his COM
panions dead drunk, fastens them down to
the floor where they lay, and then coolly
sets the palace afire. He then hastens to
the apartment of Fengo, rouses that guilty
parsonage from his sleep, and then-for the
hour long deferred OF his vengeance is come
-slays him in the most approved dramatic
style.
TROUBLE FROM BRITAIN.
This done, Hamlet, by a clever speech,
turns the popular feeling in his favor and
reigns in his uncle's stead. Matters being
thus adjusted in Denmark, Hamlet sets out
on his return to Britain. But here trouble
awaits him. The British monarch has
secretly sworn to avenge the death of Fengo.
But how keep his oath? To slay his own
royal son-in-law was difficult, not to say a
rot har oil fa ha
stratagem. There reigned IN Scotland at
this time maiden Queen named Herman
truda, fierce, bold virgin, who resented
offers matrimonial by chopping off the heads
of her suitors. To her Hamlet was sent as
envoy extraordinary to solicit her hand In
marriage for the British King, lately a
widower, in the hope that she would make
the usual end of him as proxy to proposals
of marriage. Then would Fengo be avenged.
But the astute monarch had again counted
without his host. Hamlet indeed goes to
Scotland and interviews the lady in ques-
tion. She, struck by his martial bearing,
hints that did he WOO her Tor himself he
might save his own neck and gain her hand
in the bargain.
SO HE SAVED HIS NECK.
Now, Hermantruda was as fair as she was
fierce; the too susceptible Dane jumps at
her proposal, and, forgetful of ties IN the
south, marries her forthwith with the great
est good will and moral obliquity. With
unsurpassed. and, one might say, uusur-
passable "cheek," he then returns to Britain
accompanied by his new-made vile. And
with unsurpassed, and unsurpassable mag
namity, wife No.s1 meets him en- route, pre-
pared to forgive not only her recreant lord
and husband, but wife No. 2 as well. She
hints, however, that her father is not quite so
we'll disposed, and. in fact, war ensues, in
which the British King is slain.
Hamlet then returns to Jutland in COM
pany with his two wives; finds that his
maternal grandfather is dead, and that his
successor, Wigleth, in full possession of his
own particular province. In the conflict
that follows Hamlet is slain, and Herman
truda strsightway becomes the wife OF the
conquering Wigletb, position to which
she is said to have treacherously aspired
and as treacherously achieved.
+ MARK T. GRIswoLD.