The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-04-05

you" Then he called Present up from
the kitchen; she was dressed in her
sisters asst off clothes, and her hands
were red and rough with work.
Then said the prince: "What can
you do that is worthy of q princes
wifep"
"Not much" said Present ST can
cook and keep the house clean, and Z
can spin"
"Tbat is not much for a princes wife
to do said he; but better these than
to bring M to shame or to sing ones
thoughts away"
So the next morning the prince took
Present uron his horse, and they rode
away without turning back until they
came to his w kingdom.
But the prince had been IVA so long
that his W people no longer knew
him. and the old king had died and the
false minister had seized the Kingdom.
So nothing was left for the true prince,
but to serve as goose herd. Every day
the prince drove the geese out in the
meadow, but Present stayed behind in
the goose herds hut and cooked his
dinner and made the house neat All
she asked of the prince was that, as he
followed the geese, he should gather UP
the feathers that fell from them and
bring them home to her.
The prince was willing enough to do
that, for he had nothing else to do all
day long but tend the geese and watch
the clouds floating in the sky; SO every
day he brought her home a handful of
feathers. These Present kept, and at
night, while the prince "a asleep, she
rose and worked in the moonlight until
at the end of a year and a day she had
made for herself a pair of great gray
wings.
Then at night, when the prince was
fast asleep, Present rose up and took
the great gray wings and fastened
them on her shoulders. She opened the
door very softly, and, spreading the
wings she had made, she few away and
away under the stars until she came to
the castle where the false king lived.
There was a window wide open, and
into it Present few. There lay the
false king, fast asleep in bed, but
Present went by him SO quietly that he
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after door until she came at last to the
room where the royal robes were kept.
She put them under her cloak and
then she few away home again.
There she hid her wings and the
royal robes in the closet and lay down
again beside the prince, and all the
while he never stirred nor woke.
The next evening when the prince
came home he said: There is a great
stir over at the castle, for thieves were
there last night and stole the kings
royal robes.'
What is that to us?' said Present;
you had much better sit down andea
your supper while it is hot" - the
prince sat down and ate and drcS2k,
and after supper he fell fast asleep
Again Present took out the wings
and fastened them to her shoulders and
flew away to the palace, and this time
she brought back with her the false
kings golden crown.
The next evening when the prince
came home he said: "The thieves were
in the palace again last night, and now
it lis not only the royal robes but the
8OlOcu crown Una IS gone.
"What is that to us?" said Present;
come and eat your supper while it is
still hot" So the prince sat down at
the table, and, after he had cate 4, he
threw himself upon the bed and fell
again into a deep sleep.
Now, for the third time, Present ft-
ted the wings to her shoulders, as she
had before, and few away to the false
kings palace; and this time it was the
royal scepter itself that she took.
When Present reached the goose
herds hut again the dawn was Just
breaking. She hid the scepter in the
closet with the royal robes and the
crown, and then she woke the prince
After the prince had eaten, Present
rose from the table. "And now,' said
she, 1.-THE time has come for you to go
to the false kings palace and claim
your own"
"But how can l do that?" said the
prince. mo one would know me, and
they would all laugh, as they did when
first came home, if l were to go in
my goose-herd's dress to claim the king
dom"
Then Present brought out the royal
robes and babe him put them or.
The prince looked at the robes and
wondered.
"These were once mine,' said he,
land never did I think to wear them
again. Whence came them?"
"uhey came neither by land nor sea;
but as they once were yours, so are
they now" replied Present.
The prince clothed himself in the
ROYAL robes. and there he stood "a