The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23


to the teeth, who had sthrict ordhers
that Jack Brogan would attempt to
! stale the horses out of the pillow that
day, but they weren't to allow him on
the peril of their lives, but they were
to shoot him if he thried; and if they
allowed him to stale the horses they
| would be hung to the first bush them
selves. Well. of course. they had their
eyes about them, and plowed and
plowed away till evening and no sign
OF Jack; so they agreed that Jack had
too much wit to run the risk of gettin'
shot that he had given up the thing In
despair and had gone and drowned
himself. With that they sees a hare
| with a broken leg coming over the
ditch, and away limpin' across the
held before them. Whirroo, Both of
them throws down their guns and
swords and afther that hare for bare
life They didn't go far till they caught
1t, but when they came back the horses
We're gone, as clane as if they had niv-
yer been there, and Jack was half
roads TO the castle with them. He met
the king at the gate and handed him
over his horses
Well. Jack, said the king-and I
can tell you he opened his eyes wide
when ne sees Jack marchin' up to him
with the horses-''well, Jack" SAYS he
! we done that cliverly. but them ras-
oeN4e' navy pCcit lOO SidCh Win We. dnG
I'll take We in hands myself now. The
second thing yen have to do-and it's
no miss-iS TO steal the sheet that will
be undher myself and the queen when
we are sleeping tomorrow night I'll
keep my hand on a loaded gun all
night, and the first man enthers my
room I'll shoot him dead, land if We
don't succeed in stain it. We know
what'll happen We. What do you think
of that, Jack?"
Well" says Jack. I'll do my best.
and sure We know the best can do no
more
Then the king went off to ordher out
MS soldiers to hang the two men. and
away went Jack home and you NAV be
sure his father was proud to see hi .
back safe. but when Jack tould him
the second thrial. he got own-hearted
again, and said he'd surely lose his boy
this time.
Jack said nothin', but went to his bed
ana slept sound that night again: and
the next night he went to the grave
yard and dug up fresh corp about the
same age as himself. and taking it
home he dhressed it in a shoot of his
own clothes, and started for the castle
In the middle of the night, and gettin'
nolSteo up the corp, anu at the same
undher the kings bedroom window. he
time threw gravel again the panes.
What's that?" says the king, jump
ing up in his bed; and seeing the head
at the window he fired, and Jack. with
that. let the corp fall.
ia, ma, says the king Il was too
abe for We, Jack, my boy; you're done
Tor at length, and it's yer desarvin'.
Now, queen, says he to her ladyship.
CORP
Jack waited till he saw the king safe
climbed in of the window.
on weren't long away. king" SAYS
her Iadyship from the bed
Oh, says Jack, purtendin' the kings
voice, 4 KEN back for the sheet to
wrap up the corp in an carry him
to the graveyard
AND sure enough she hands it to him
to wrap around the corp. and me brave
Jack steps out of the window and
away with him
1t wasn't long afther till the king
came in with his teeth chaterin'. and
steps into bed
Where's the Sheet" he cried, jump
IN, up as soon as he missed it.
why, We amadhaun." says the
queen. didn't We come back and saw
you wanted it to wrap up the corp and
carry Ii to the graveyard"
oh, Jack, Jack," says the king, lying
back in his bed again, you have
thricked me once more! But. plaise
providence, that will be the last time"
Next day Jack came to the castle
with the sheet rowled up an ondher his
arm, and presented it TO the king
We'll, Jack" says the king. smilin',
we done me again, but the third time,
We mind, is the charm. Tomorrow
night I'll sleep with all my clothes, as
well as my shoot of mail on me. and
you're to steal this inside shirt (show-
I ir11l hot hoe
ten on the inside breast of it, We per- |
save, off my back, and leave another |
SHIRT on me in its place, and I'll have |
a loaded gun in every hand all night |
and there'll be a senthry at every win |
dow in my house, and two at every |
door, and my bedroom will be filled |
with soldiers; and if We don't succeed |
We know what'll happen We. Eth, what |
do you think of that, Jack?"
Why" says Jack, says he. sure I'll |
do me best, and the best, We know, can
do no more"
Now Jacks father was jumpin' out
of his skin with delight when he found |
that Jack stole the sheet, but when
Jack come home this night an tould
his father that he had to steal the in
side shirt, with the kings name on the
inside of the breast, off the kings back,
and leave another in its place. I'M
to him, while he slept with all
his clothes as well as a shoot of mail on
him, and loaded gun in every hand,
and with a senthry at every window,
and two at every door, and the room
full of soldiers. fax, Jacks fathers
heart gave way again entirely, and he
said that Jack was as good as lost to
him now, anyhow.
Jack said nothing, but went to bed
and slept sounder now than ever he
did, and, getting up betimes in the
nfv,f l,rz i
him to make a shirt of the same de-
and of the very same cloth
as the kings inside shirt; and he got
the tailyer to prent something in the
inside of the breast of it-but what it
was we'll not say now. In the middle
Of the night he rowled up the shirt, |
and. buttoning in up inside his coat. he
for the castle. When the SEN
thries seen him comm they ups with
their guns to shoot him, when he
shouted out not to mind. for that he
was comm to give himself up, seem