The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-01

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Hookedy-crookedy Put His Head in
Her Lap and She Combed Out a
Bushel of Gold and Silver.
beautiful daughters were open for mar
riage. In a very short time the son
of the King of Spain, came and married
! the eldest daughter and the son of the
King of France came and married the
| second, and a whole lot of princes came
| looking for the youngest, who was the
most beautiful of the three, and whose
name was Yellow Rose, but she would
not take one of them, and for this the
king ordered her never to come into his
sight nor into company again.
| Yellow Rose got very downhearted
| and used almost all her time now in
wandering in the garden where Hook
! edy-C rookedy was looking after the
! flowers, and she Used to come around
again and again, chatting with Hook
edy-C rookedy And so it was not long
until Hookedy- Crookedy saw that the
Yellow Rose was in love with him, and
! he got just as deeply in love with her,
for she was beautiful and charming
| girl. The next thing the grand adj
wiser counseled the king was that he
should send his two new sons-in-law,
J the Prince of Spain and the Prince of
France, to the Well of the Worlds End
| for bottles of Ioca@ to take in the bat
tie with them that they might cure
wounded and dead men. So the king
| ordered his sons-in-law to go to the
Well of the Worlds End and bring
him back two bottles of Ioca
The Yellow Rose told Hookedy-
Crookedy all about. this, and when he
had turned it over in his mind he said
to himself, Il will go and have chat
with the mare and bear about this
So off to the woods he went, and right
glad the mare and the bear were to see
him. He told them all that happened,
and then told them how the kings
two sons-in-law were to start to the
Well of the Worlds End the next day,
and asked the mares advice about this.
We'll, Jack" says the mare, 'I want
you to go with them. Take an old hunt
horse in the kings stable an old bony,
skinny animal that is past all work,
and put an old, strong saddle on it, and
dress yourself in the most ragged dress
you can get, and join the two men on
the roads. and say that you are going
with them. They will be heartily
ashamed of you, Jack, and the figure
of yours and the old horse you get.
and they will do everything to get rid
of you. When you come to the cross
roads one of them will propose to go in
and have a drink, and then when you
are chatting over your drink they will
propose that the three of you separate
and every one of you take a road by
yourself to so to the Well of the
Worlds End, and all three will meet
at that crossroads again, and whoever
is back first with the bottle of water
is to be the greatest hero of them all.
You agree to this. When they start off
their roads they will not go many miles
till they fill their bottles from Spar
wells by the roadside and hurry back
to the meeting place, and then to con-
tinue on home to the king of Scotland
and give him these bottles as bottles
of Ioca from the Wells of the Worlds
End.
But you will be before them, and |
after you have set on your road put
on your wishing cap when you have
gone around the first bend and wish
for two bottles of Ioca from the Wells !
Of the Worlds End. and at once you
will have them" and then the mare
directed Jack fully all that he was to
10 after Jack thanked the mare and |
babe goodbye to the mare and went |!
away
The next day when the kings two |
,ons-in-law set out on their grand
steeds to go to the Wells of the Worlds |
End, they had not gone far when Jack, |
n a ragged old suit and sitting on q
strong saddle on an old white skinny
horse, Joined them and told them he,
90, was going with them for bottle
If Ioca Right heartily ashamed of
lack. they would do anything to get
id of him.
BY and by when they came to where
he road parted in three they proposed
o have a drink, and as they set off to
rink they proposed that each take
Dad for himself, and whoever was to
le back first with a bottle of Ioca
would be the greatest hero. They
greed. and each chose his own road
nd set out.
When Jack went around the first
'end he put on his wishing cap and
Wished for two bottles of Ioea from the
Wells of the Worlds End. and no soon
r had he wished than he had them,
nd back again he came, and was not
cry long, and when the other two
anne riding up, surprised they were to
nd Jack there before them. They
aid that Jack had not been to the
Wells of the Worlds End, and it was
o Ioca he had with him, but some
7ate- from the roadside.
NO" said Jack, take care that is
OF your own story"
"All right" said Jack, ''just test
hem: when the servant comes in with
ne drinks you cut off his head and
hen cure him with your bottle"
But both of them refused to do this,
)r thew knew their bottles could NOT |
ure anything. but they defied Jack to
o it.
VERY soon will do that" said Jack I
So when the servant came in with {
is drinks Jack drew his sword and I
Popped his head off him, and in a /
linute's time with two drops from one
{ his bottles of Ioca he had the head /
n again.
Says they to Hookedy-Crookedy. I
What will you take for your two bot
esq"
Saws Jack: 81 will take the golden ,
ais of'your marriage pledge, and also i
allow me to write something on your !
lcks."
And they agreed to this They handed S
yer to Jack the two golden balls that {
ere their marriage tokens, and, lying
,wn on the floor, they let Jack write t
/ their bare backs, and what Jack !
rote on each of them was, "This is j., :
i unlawful married man." Then he +
I've them the bottles of Ioca and they
rned TO his garden again.
He did not tell the Yellow Rose where
had been and what he was doing, :
lly said he was away on message
r her father. AS soon as the king 4
It the bottles of Ioca he gave orders