The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-01
ed him if they had any more in his fam

The King, said they used to have an
other daughter, the youngest, but she
would not consent to marry as he wished,
and that he had banished her out of his
Jack said that he would like to see
her.
The King said he would never let her
enter company again. but he could not
refuse Jack; so the Yellow Rose was sent
for.
Jack fell to chatting with her and used
all his arts y win her and, of course. III
this handsOnA Jack she did not recognize
ugly little HOOkedy-CroOkedy- He tod
her he had heard that she had very bad
taste TO fall in love with an ugly crooked
wee fellow in her fathers garden
4 am handsome fellow, rich prince,
says Jack, and | will give YOU myself
and all | possess if you will only say you
She was highly insuIted, and she show
ed him that very quickly. She said: L
went sit here and hear the man love
| abused, and she got up to leave.
| w ell, says Jack, Il admire your splr-
1t; but before you 60" says he, let me
make you little present, and he hand
ed her a tablecloth. There, says he.
if you marry Hookedy-Crookedy, as long
as you have this tableclOth you will new
er want eating and drinking of the best,
The other two sisters grabbed TO get the
his hands and pushed them back.
At dinner time the next day Jack came
| in in a dress in which he had gone into
the second battle, and with the mare he
| cleared the walls, as he had done the day
| before.
The King was enraged at the gate keep
erS and began to ScOld them, but JACK
! laughed at them and said trlfle ike
| that was never to him and his mare
| harmful
what he thought of his daughters and
| their husbands.
Jack said they were very good, and
asked him if he had any more in his fam
The King said: Il have no more ex-
| cept one daughter, who won't do as L
wish, and who has fallen in love with an
ugly crooked wee fellow in my garden,
| and | ordered her never to come in my
| sight again"
But Jack said he would very much like
| to see her.
The king said that on Jacks account he
would break his VOW and let her come In;
| So the Yellow Rose was brought In and
| Jack fell to chat with her. He did all
he could to make her fall in love with
| HIM, and then told her of all his good
wealth and good possessions and offered
himself to her, and said If she only would
marry him she would live with ease and
luxury and happiness all the days OF ner
life, things she would never know with
| Hookedy-CroOkedy-
| But Yellow Rose got very angry, and
! said: Il won't sit here and listen TO such
things and she got up to leave the room
Well" said Jack, II admire your spirit,
nPd Psf9Fs you go he G handed me heF purse
Here" SAYS he, lis a purse and all the
days yourself and Hookedy-Crookedy i've
you will never want for money for that
| purse will never be empty.
! He sisters made a grab to snatch II
| from her, but Jack showed them back and
went out, and Jack rode away with the
mare after dinner and left her IN the
When he came back to his garden
! he always came in the Hookedy-Crook-
edy ship and always pretended ne mad
mos pc
The third day he went TO the Woo9
again. He dressed in the suit In wnlch
he had gone to the first battle, and Wnen
he came back he went to the castle and
cleared the walls, and when the King
scolded the gatekeepers Jack told MIN
never to mind, as that was a small Tlne
A We Very VS. grand dinner indeed Jack had
this day, and when they chatted after
dinner the king asked him how he liked
his daughters and tner 1 hu Isara Well and
asked him if he had any more IN MS
family. ,,-.
The king said no. except one foolish
and who fell in love with an ugly, crooked,
wee fellow in his garden. and she was
never to come within his sight again.
Says Jack, Il would like TO see that
The king said he could not refuse Jack
any request he made, so he went for the 4
yellow Rose. When she came am IN , 1acH
fell into chat with her and did his very,
very best to make her fall IN IoVe Win
him, but it was of no use He told her Oh
all his wealth and all his good posSesslolils,
and said if she would marry MIN she
would own all that, and all the days Sne
would live she would be the napplGSt
woman of the wide world, but II she
would marry HoOkedy-Crookedy, ne saIqi
she would never be out of want and haTu-
ships, besides having an ugly husband;
If the Yellow Rose was in rage the
two DAYS before, she was in far greater
he cal he
to listen to that. She told JACK tnat
Hookedy-C rookedy was in her her eyes , Lar
more handsome and beaut1tul man an tI nan
he and any of the King sons she had /
ever seen. She said to Jack II ne was ten |
times as handsome and 100 times as /
wealthy, she wouldn't. give Hookeqy-
CrOokedys little finger for himselI OF IoI
all his wealth and possessions, ana theh
she got up to leave the room. ..r
We'll" says Jack, says he admire
your spirit very much aha' 1i+ fdyS nr es,
ent. Here is a comb. he SAID; anu ~
will comb out of ones hair a bushei OF
gold and a bushel of silver every tl me
fhey comb with it, and, besides. says ne,
lit will make handsome the ughest man
When the other sisters heard this they
rushed to snatch the comb from her, out
lack threw them backwards so very
roughly that their husbands spranS out
with the back switch of his two hands
Jack knocked their huseands Gown "a se saiJ
'fHow dare you do that TO the two finest
and bravest men of this world ~
Fine and brave. indeed, SAID J9ch.
zone and the other two are worthless
creatures, and not even your lawful sons
iH How dare you say thatP" says the
king.
strip their backs where they lie and
see for yourself" And there the KING
saw written AN unlawful married, man.
What is the meaning of THIS says
the king "They were lawfully married
to my two daughters, and they have the
golden tokens Of the marriage -
Jack drew out from his pocket the two
golden balls and handed them TO the KING;
and said 1T is l who have the tokens
and handed them 10 the king,
The Yellow Rose had gone OH 10 th6
garden in the middle of all this jack
made the King sit down and told him all
his story. and how he came by the golden
balls He told him how he was Hookedy-
Crookedy, and that it reflected great
deal of honor that she the klns d thoug n1
rookedy fer one she thought
a wealthy prince, and that she walked
away in a hurry. The King, you may DC
sure, was highly delighted to grant his
request A couple of drops of Ioca then
brought the Kings two sons TO their
senses again, and at Jacks request tney
ordered to go bt anG 1--WE IN e t5e wood
md came in the garden, as Hookedy-
'7rookedy. He told the Yellow Rose ne
lad been gathering bilberTies: ,,rand
,or you Let me comb your hair with
his comb
Hookedy-Crookedy put his head in her
an and she combed out a buShel OF gold
md silver, and when he stood up again
,he saw Hookedy- Crookedy no more, but
instead. the beautiful prince that had
1een trying to win her in her, fathers
hon and there to her Jack told his whole
tory. and it's Yellow Rose is the de-
lighted girl. .l,
rhe wedding lasted year and day and
here were at it 500 fiddlers, 500 fiuters
md 900 fifers, and the last day was bet
er than the first.
III yvsra ont walking one day A beau