Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20
PRINCE BULL.
A FAIRY TALE.



though | have tried hard to find out, there
lived in a rich and fertile country a power
fuI prince whose name was Bull He had
gone through A great deal of fighting in MS
time. about all sorts of things. including
nothing. but had gradually settled down 10
b. steady. peaceabie. gn1d-natured' cor
PuI-ut. rather sleepy prince.
This puissaut prince was married to a
Iove'y princess whose name was Fair Free
dom. She had brought HIN large for
tune. ana had borne him an immense num-
Der Of children, and bad set them to spin
ming. and farming. and engineering. and
soldering. and saiioring, and doctoring, and
Iawyrriug. and preaching. and all kinds of
trades. The Golfers of Prince Bull were
full uf treasure. his cellars Were crammed
with delicious wines from ali parts of the
world. the richest gold alta silver plate that
ever was adorned his sideboards. his
sons were strong. his daughters were hand
some. and, ~ short, you might have sup
posed that if there ever iIyed upon earth
fortunate and happy prince The name OF
that prince. take him Tor al in all, was as
surediy Prince Bull
But appearances, as We all know, are not
always to be trUsted-far from II; and ii they
had ted YOU - tins CONCLUSION respecting
Prince Bull they would have led you wrong,
they often have led ne.
For TINS good prince l4d TWO SDdEp
III his pr! ow. two hard knobs IN his crown,
Two heavy loads Oh his mind, TWO unDridlcd
Nightmares in MS sleep. TWO rocks ahead in
his course He could Hot. by any means, get
servants 10 suit him, and he had a tyran-
MICA! old sodmoJher whose name was Tape.
Sin. was ii fairy, this tape, and was d
bright TvI all over. She Was dISguStlngiy
prin ami formal and could never bend her
self Il hairs bi cad Ia this way or that way
UuI Of her naturally crooked shape. But
she was very potent IN her wicked art. She
could stop the fusrest thing III the world,
change the strongest thing INTO the weakest
and the most useful into the most useless.
To do this she had only TO put her cold
hand upon it and repeat her own name,
Tape. Then it withered away.
At the court of Prince Bull-at least l
don't literally at his court, because
he a very genteei prince and readily
yielded To his godmoJher when she always
Reserved that for his hereditary lords and
ltties-in the iOmininns of Prince Bull,
among the great mass of the community,
who were called in the language of that
polite country the mObs and the SnObS. were
number Of very ingenious men who were
always busy with some invention other
for promoting the prosperity of the princes
subjects and augmentins the princes pow
er But whenever they submitted their
models for the princes approval his god
mother stepped forward, laid her hand upon
them and said Tape Hence, 1t came TO
ptSS that when any particularly good dis
Cuv'rN was made the discoverer usually
carried il of to some other prince in for
eigE parts who had no old godmother who
SAID tape This was not. on the whole, an
advantageous state of things for Prince
Bull. 10 the best Of my understanding.
The worst Of 1t was that Prince Bull had
o. s,,l,fs..,f6r :" tJfs IrrrIckv eyndno1tbar
that ne never made any serious effort to
rf himself Of her tyranny. ] have said
this was the worst of it. but there | was
V-rrDs hscar1e there Is a worse cansa-
qIeur- still behind The princes numerous
family became 50 downright sick and tired
m. r.T5r. nu- of tho HI F,7c.r1tfes into which
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