The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-26

| ences. The monkey king accepted the in
vitation and seated himself on the hearth
He was stirring the fire with poker,
when bangl went the egg which had Sc
GREETED itself in the ashes. The monkeys
arm was burned, and running 10 a pickle
tub he thrust in his arm, only to be stung
by she bee. The monkey wept and made
for the back door. But he got his legs
twisted in some seaweed and slipped
Then the mortar and the FOUNDER tumhled
of a shelf and fell on him so hard that
they broke his back. The crabs came out
with their pinchers and pinched him TO
death.
One of the best stories is 1.-THE Silly
Jellytish." AS translated into English by
B. H. Chamberlain for a Japanese pub
fishing house, the story runs as follows:
"Once upon time the king of the
dragons, who had till then lived as
bachelor, took it into his head to get mar
ried. His bride was young dragonette,
just 16 years old, lovely enough. in very
sooth, to become the wife of a king
Great were the rejoicings on the occasion.
The fsnes, both great and small, came to
pay their respects and to offer gifts to the
newly welded pair; and for some days all
was feasting and merriments.
But, alas even dragons have their
trials. Before month had passed the
young dragon queen fell i'll The doctor
NcSON hSLD"AbH ONILJ AAChlCluC bu6b was
known TO them, but all to no purpose. At
last they shook their heads, declaring
that there was nothing more to be done.
The illness must take It's course, and she
would die But the sick queen said to
her husband:
81 know OF something that will cure
me. Only fetch me live monkeys liver
TO eat, and shall get well at once
"A live monkeys liverp exclaimed the
ha a falrF -
dear2 Why, you forgot that we dragons
live IN the sea, while monkeys live far
away from here, among the forest trees
on land. A monkeys liverl Why, dar-
ling, you must be mad
Here upon the dragon queen burst
into tears. 4 only ask you for one small
thing whimpered she, and you won't
didn't really love me. Oh, ] wish | had
stayed at home with my own m-m-m-
mamma and my own papa-a-ap Here her
voice choked with sobs and she could say
no more.
well, Of course the dragon king did
not like to have it thought that he was
unkind 10 his beautiful young wife. So
he sent for his trusty servant, the Jelly
fish, and said.
1T is rather difficult Job, but what l
want you to try 10 do is TO swim across 10
the land and persuade live monkey TO
come here with you. In order TO make
the monkey willing TO come, you can tell
him how much nicer everything is here in
Dragon Land than away where he lives.
But what l really want him for is to cut
out his liver and use IL as medicine for
your young mistress, who, as you know,
is dangerously ILL
$50 the Jelly fish went of on his
strange errand. In those days he was
just like any other fish, with eyes and fms
and tail He oven had little feet,
which made him able to walk on the land
as well as TO swim in the water. IL did
not take him many hours 10 swim across
TO the country where the monkeys lived
and fortunately, there happened 10 be a
fine monkey skipping about among the
branches OF the trees near the place
where the jelly FISH landed So the
Jelly fish said:
Mr.. Monkey, have come 10 tell you
Of a country far more beautiful than
this II lies beyond the waves, and is
called Dragon Land. There is pleasant
weather there all the year round, there
is alws Us plenty of ripe fruit on the
trees, aid there are none OF those mis-
chievous creatures called men. II you
will come with me 1 will take you there.
Just get on my back"
The monkey thought IL would be fun
70 see new country. So he leaped on TO
the Jelly 1sh's back. and of they started
across the water. But when they had