The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-03
LILLE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1893

flowed by the castle to wash it, though
she rubbed and rubbed ever so hard
she could not get any of the blood off
her foot Then she gave it up, saying
to herself that she would manage to
conceal it from her lord
That evening as she sat under the
trees in the garden eating bread and
drinking milk for supper, a cat crept
up to lick some drops of milk that had
fallen on the ground. She kicked away
! the cat.
"Miaow! Miaowr" said the cat. eff
you let me take what milk drops from
your bowl, shall lick one-half the
blood off your foot
Get OUT said she, making another
kick at the cat. When / couldn't wash
it off myself. I'm sure you couldn't lick
it off,
Then a robin redbreast hoped up to
pick the crumbs she let fall; but she
threw a stick at the robin and hunted
| it away.
"Toowhit! toowhitr' said the robin
from the tree where it alighted. IF
you let me, pick up what crumbs fall
from you I'll tell you how you may
take one-half the blood off your foot"
Get out!' said she, throwing another
stick at him. When ] couldn't wash
it off myself I'm very sure you couldn't
! tell me how
At the end of the two days the prince
returned and demanded the keys.
L '%.st you haven't gone into the
room 1 forbade you OFF," he said. SHOW
| me your feet
She tried to hide the bloody foot
from him, but it was of no use. for he
! insisted on seeing it; and, finding the
| blood upon it, he knew she had been in
| the secret room, and he Immediately
killed her, and hung up her body be-
side her sisters.
About week after the second sis
ter'S disappearance, the queen and her
| only daughter, the youngest sat in
great grief by the window on a morn
ing, endeavoring to console each other
| for their great loss, when once more
| the black bull appeared in the gaIGen,
roofing up their flowers as before. The
young princess said she would go out
and drive him off, Her mother endeav-
ored to persuade her not to attempt
| It, but she insisted and, Selling a very
long pole, in order to keep further from
him than her elder sisters. AS she
went she rushed into the garden, and
struck the bull with it. But the pole
| stuck to the bull, and her hand stuck
! to the pole; and the bull went off, and
she went off, over high hills, low hills,
gray mountains and green plains, run
ming on and on, without once stopping
LII lHlcc udyS anu tHftt nISulS, iii
at length she saw a great red castle,
painted all over with blood. Here the
bull stopped, and changed his shape
into that of mantle very prince
whom she and her sisters had some
time before refused their hands in mar
rage.
Now, fair young princess" said he,
when you refused me and l quilted
your mothers castle, 1 said that the
next time I went for you, you might
come without asking. Has not my
word been fulfilled?'
Then he told her that he would make
her the mistress of that great castle,
and that she would want for nothing
to make her happiness perfect. Only,
he told her, she would have to obey
him in all things; otherwise the fate of
those whose blood had painted his
castle. would also be hers.
On the next morning the prince told
her he was going away, to remain f51
three DAYS, and he gave her a great
bunch of keys which opened every
room in the castle, and told her whilst
he would be absent to amuse herself
as best she could going through them,
seeing their richness and beauty But
he showed her one key, and told her
on no account dare to enter or open
the room of which that was the key.
The prince babe her goodby,. and
departed and the princess, taking the
great bunch of keys, went through the
castle, gazing at the beauty of the
many rooms in amazement and wonder
until she had seen them all but the one
he had ordered her not to open. She
stood a long time before the door of
this room, wondering why it was he
had forbidden her to enter it, and what
secret could it contain that he was so
anxious to keep from her. At length
she resolved to open it and peep in any
how, for how should he know whether