The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-17

~ It's AlSut IN the ball room and al
were as BUSY as bees in the kitchen. what
would We have Of it but at that very time
uoeSh there come to the kitchen win
COW hare, and puts in its head and
eoInihehces licking a plate of some par.
Iieu4ar nice dainty that was cooling in
size the window, and the cook was so
ehraged at one of her very best bshes be-
ing destroyed that she got UP in a pas.
son ana put off all her sorts and said il
was nice how do We do that with hairo
IN the house that killed giants a dirty
hare would be allowed 10 come in and
spoil her cooking. This word soon came
10 the grooms ears in the ball room and
though the King and the Queen and the
bride and al the nobility and gentry tried
10 persuade him against it he wouldn't
stop, and there was no holding of him. He
said he wouldn't stop two nights or eat
TWO meals meat in the one house till he
would catch that hare and bring it back
dead or alive. So mounting his FLY, and
taxing with him his hawk and his hound,
ne started off hot-fo0t in pursuit He
pursued the hare all that night and all
the next day, and at evening late he drew
on little wee house he saw in a hollow.
and he went in, for he was tired, and
determined to rest that night He wasn't
long in and he was warming himself at
the fire, with his hound, his hawk and
his hlly, when he hears a noise at the
wee window of the house, and there he
| sees dirty, wizened old bag of a woman,
trembling and shaking down to her very
| finger tips. och, och, och, it's cod, cold,
cold, says she and her teeth rafting in
her head. "Why don't you come in and
warm yourself?' says he "Och l can't,
can't" says she. I'm afraid of them
wild animals of yours. But here" says
| she, pulling three long hairs out of her
| head, and handing them in by the window
| to him, here" says she, lis three of
| the borochs*+ we used to have in old times,
and if you tie them wild beasts of yours
with them then I'll go in" SO he took
the three hairs and tied the hawk, the
| hound and the filly with them, and then
| the old bag came in, but she was trem
| bling no longer, and, says she, with her
| eyes flashing fire, DO you know who l
ann" says she. "They call me the Old
Hag of the Forest, and it was my three
sons you killed to win the Kings daugh
| ter, but you'll pay dearly for it now"
says she. With that he drew his sword,
and the bag drew another, and both of
them fell to it, and 1 couldn't be able to
describe TO you the terrible fight they had
entirely. But at length the Old Hag of
the Forest was getting too many for him,
and he had TO call on the help of the
hound. Hound, houd,' says he, where
are you at my commando" And at this
"hold tight" oh" says the hound, ITS
hard for me to do anything and my throat
a-cutting.' Then he called on the hawk.
Hawk, hawk" says he, where are you
at my commando" And Hair, hair"
says the Old bag. says she hold tight"
oh" says the hawk, sure it's
hard for me to do anything
ard my throat a-cutting." And then he
called on the flly. "Fhly, filly," says he,
where are you at my commando" Hair,
hair" says the Old bag, says she, "ho.d
tight" ooh" says the filly. 'sure it's
hard for me to do anything and my throat
a-cutting" So the end of 1t all was that
the bag overcame him, and then taking
out of her pocket a little white rod she
struck him with it, and turned him into
a gray rock, just outside her door and
then striking the hound, the hawk and the
FLY with the rod she turned them into
white rocks just beside him.
Now at home they watched the waller
in the filly's hoof tracks as regularly as
the sun rose every day, day after day,
til at last the one day saw the water IN
the hoof track frothing, and they said he
was fighting a hard battle; and so he was
for that was the very day himself and
the first giant had the encounter Next
dav it was frothing more than ever for
that was the day he was fighting the sec
ond giant and on the third day the wafer
frothed right up out of the tracks, ana
then they knew he was fighting desper-
ate big battle entirely; and sure enough
himself and the third giant were at 1t
hard and fast at the same instant But
at length didn't they find the water turning
10 blood and they thought he must be
killed So the next morning the second
brother set out and he said he Wouldh |
stop two nights or eat two meals oil meat
in the one house til he'd find out what
happened to his brother. He took ms
hound his hawk and his hlly with hlIn
and he Travelled on and on, lar lur'hef
than I could tell you, till at length one
o,,o,,ing late doesn't he come to the very
wee house near great castle where his
brother had put up before him. ana Wheh
he comes in the old woman that was IN
the house flew at him ana Kissed MN aLc
welcomed him back with hundred
welcomes ten times over, for ne was 50
like his brother she was sure 1t was MN
was in IT, Then she told him that they
80 on waiting for him anxiously at
Tho castle. expecting him back every DAY,
ana thet he should lose no time in gong
10 them for that the bride in particular
was down-hearted entirely since ne had
went away. thinking that she'd never see
him any more. So off he starts at once
for the castle to find 1t all out ana Il
there was the welcome and the rejoicing.
and
him oil over with kisses, and there was
a Great spread. and al the gentry ana no
bilitv were asked in again, but that night
again what would you have OF It, put
the hare comes a second time, and spoil
ed the cooks best dish, and drove the
cook into a frightful rage, and-"lts a
nice how do We do, indeed says the cook
saws she, that with a hairo in the mouse
that slew three giants that hare would be
allowed to come in and spoil my very
choicest dish, and then go off with itself
SCOT free, says she. And this word came
IN the new groom in the bail room, ana
"Bv this, and by that" says ne, i wont won
ston tiu I go after that hare ana II
never stop two nights or eat two meals
in the one house til I bring back that
hare dead or alive" And so, off he
starts himself; the hound, the hawk, ana
The Ally; and all that night and the next
dav he persued after the hare, and tate
TIE next evening when he was feehns
tired out and not able to follow any fur
Their doesn't he sees in the hollow below
him a little house, and drawing on the
house he went in and was warming him.
self nv the fire with his hound, his hawk
80 bis f.1v about him when he hears