The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-19
SIR OMAR.

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leaf from the sycamore ON its summit,
and swooped like awave upon the roofs
and chimney stacks below. The smoke
ascending through the chimneys was
caught midway and driven back with
showers Of SCOT and wood ash, discom-
fitting the townsmen who fingered Ey
their hearths to read the morning pa
per. The blast, its strength thus broken,
fell fat upon the macadam OF the main
street, scattering its fine dust into far
shaped figures, then died away west
ward in eddies. Among these eddies the
sycamore leaf danced and twirled, now
shooting along the ground upon it's
edge, like q tin disk, now whisked up
to the level of the first story windows.
A nurse, holding up a 8-year-old child
behind the pane, called out, pointing
after the leaf:
"Look-there goes Sir Dinarr'
Now the legend of Sir Dinar is as old
as the round table, though later
touches, easily detected, have been add
cd to it. And this is how they tell it:
C1I DIud1 was t1l5 A1Sb SUI GL1A WILLIE
Hest of King Geraint, who had left Ar
thurs court for his own castle above
Portscathoin-R oseland and was buried,
when his time came, over the Mare, in
his golden boat, with his silver oars be-
side him. To fill his seat at the round
table he sent, in the lads sixteenth
year, this Dinar, who, in two years,
was made knight by King Arthur, and
in the third wa turned an old man be-
fore he had achieved a single deed of
note, as is to be shown.
For ON the fifth day after he was dub
bed knight, upon the feast of Pentecost,
there began the great quest of the Sane
grael, which took Sir Lancelot from the
court, Sir Perceval, Sir Bors, Sir Ga
waine, Sir Galahad and the flower Of
Arthur's knights. And because, after
their going, it was all sad cheer at
Camelot, and heavy, empty days Sir
Dinar took two of his best friends aside,
both young knights, Sir Galhaltin and
Sir Ozanna le Caur Hardi, and spoke
to them Of riding from the court by
stealth, ''for," he said, 1--WE have many
| days before US, and no villainy upon
u conscience, and besides are eager.
Who knows, then, but we may achieve
this adventure of the S~ancgrael?" So
they listened and impaired it to another,
SIR Sentrail, and the four rode forth
privily one morning before the dawn
and set their faces northward.
Now, the day of their setting out was
that next after Christmas and is tho
feast of Stephen the Martyr, and>as they
rode through o thick wood it came into
Sir Dinar's mind that upon this day it
was right to kill any bird that few in
remembrance that, when st. Stephen
had all but escaped from the soldiers
who guarded him, q small bird had
sung in their ears and awakened them.
By this the sky was growing white with
the morning, but nothing yet clear to
the sight, and while they pressed for
ward under the naked boughs, their
horses hoofs cracking the frozen under
growth beneath them, Sir Dinar was
aware Of a birds wing ruffiing ahead and
let fly a bolt without warning his com
panions why he did this, who had forgot.
ten what morning it was and drew rein
in their establishment.
But pressing forward in a minute
they came upon a gerfalcon lying, with
long 1unes hanging about his feet and
through his breast the hole that Sill
Dinar's bolt had made. While they
stopped over this bird the sun got up,
and lifting their heads they saw a greer
glade before them, and in the midst o.
the glade three pavilions set, each O
red sendal, that shone at the first touch
Of the morning. In the first pavilion
slept seven knights, and in the second
score Of damsels, but by the door OF th'
third stood a lady, fair and tall, in
robe of samite, who, 10 they drew neal
to accost her, inquired OF them:
(Which Of you four has slain m.
gerfalcon?"
And when Sir Dinar confessed ant
began to make his excuse, "Sill.
knight, - said she, "who couldst no
guess that my falcon, too, was abroa'
to avenge the blessed Stepheni Or dos
think chat IL was o hawk, Of all birds
) that sang a sweet melody in the ears o
his guards?"
II Win Lunb bI0 4huSuCu9 do A pdC1lCu
and asked of their affairs, and beinI
} told that they rode In search Of Oh
: Sancgrael she laughed again, saying:
silly knights all. that seek 1t befor
you be bearded For three of you mus
faint and die on the quest, and You, SIR,
turning to Sir Dinar, must man.
times long % die, yet new reach neare
| by a foot"
asLet it be as God will, answere
Sir Dinar. "But hast thou any tiding
10 guide us?'
g II have heard, ; said she, that !
Q was seen latest In the land Of Gore, be
yond Trent water. And with her whit
finger she pointed down 3 narrow glad
that led to the northwest. So the
thanked her and pricked ON, npne guess
ing that she herself was King Urience'
wife OF Gore, and none other than Quee