The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-23

come ,e are in troth caed mile failthe
ghud, and it's fresh and bloomin' We re
lookin'-what speed did We come at yer
thrade ?"
\ why, thank We kindly. yer highness,"
says Jack, Il can't complain at all; l think
! doEe very fairly for my time-at leaist
that was my masther's opinion, and he's
not the worst judge for We see. Jack
was nodes and dint care for putin ana
BLOWN about himself.
"Well. it's well for We, Jack" says the
King back to him. for the three thrias
III put afore you We will no miss, l as
sure ye.'
We'll, yer reverence" says Jack "Tn
feel honorod TO do what l can for We.
Would yer mghness be paised to let me
know the first for it's as well to get the
unpleasant business over at wanst?"
THE first thing Jack, you'n have 10
do says the King, lis this Tomorrow
morning III send out a plow and two
horses to pillow the tattie field at the back
of the hill and III send two men with
them, armed to the teeth; and you'll have
to steal the two horses out of the plow
unknownst to the men, and if ye let to-
morrow night fall on We without having
the horses stolen you'll undergo the pun
ishment for high thrayson-youl be burn
ed, beheaded and hung; and this time TO-
morrow I hope to be feasting my eyes on
your head stuck on the porch of that gate
there Do you think will ye be able to
succeed, JACKIE says ne, laughing hard.
why, yer highness," says JaC sure
I'll do my best, and the best can do no
more"
Jack and his father went home, the IA
Their very down-hearted entirely, SEEM
that there didn't seem to be any chance
for poor Jack at all, and he thought he'd
see him burned, beheaded and hung before
his eyes the next night.
Jack didn't say much, but went to bed
and slept sound He was up with the lark
next mornin and away out through the
fields. He searched the meadows Till he
came on a hare asleep, and, catching it, he
broke one of its legs and fetched it home
with him. The King sent out the two
horses, according to his promise, to pillow
the tattie field. and he sent with them two
men armed 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 were to shoot him
If he thried; and if they allowed him to
stale the horses they would be hung TO the
first bush themselves. Well, of course they
had their eyes about them and plowed and
powed away ill evening and no sign of
Jack; so they agreed that Jack had too
much wit to run the risk of gettin' shot,
that ne had given up the thing in despair
and had gone and dhrowned himself. With
that they sees hare with a broken leg
coming over the ditch and away limpin'
across the field before they. 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 it, but
when they came back the horses were gone,
as clane as if they had nivver been there,
and Jack was railroads TO the castle with
them. He met the King at the gate and
handed him over mis- horses.
well Jack" said the King-and can
tell you he opened his eyes wide when he
sees Jack marchin up to him with the
horses-"weu Jack" says ne, rye done
that cliverly but them rascals have been
too slack with ye and III take We in hands
myself now. The second thing yen have
10 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 loaded gun
ali night. and the first man enthers my
room III shoot him dead and If We don't
succeed in stain 1t, ye know whatll hap
men We. What do you think of that,
Gwen" says Jack, "Ill do my best. and
sure We know the best can do no more"
Then the King went off to ordher out hla
soldiers TO hang the two men, and away
went lack home, and you may be sure
his father was proud to see him back safe,
hut when Jack tould him the second thrial,
he got down-hearted again, and said he'd
surrey lose his boy this time.
Jack said nothin, but went to his bed
and slept sound that night again; and the
next night he went to the graveyard and
dug up a fresh corp about the same age
as himself and taking It home he dhressed
n "a a shoot Of his own clothes and
started for the castle in the middle of the
night. and gettiu undher the Kings bed
room window. he hoiAed up the corp.
and at the same time threw gravel again
the panes
whats that?" says the King jumping
up in his bed; and seeing the head at the
window he fired, and Jack, with that, let
the corp fall
"Ha hal" says the King, Il was too