The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-26

Hookedy-crookedy Put His Head in
Her Lap and She Combed Out a
Bushel of Gold and Silver.
beautiful daughters were open for mar
rlage. In a very short time the son
of the King Of Spain, came and married
the eldest daughter n the son of the
King of France anne and married the
second, and a whole lot Of princes came
looking for h 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 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-Crookedy was looking after the
flowers, and she used to come around
! again and again, chatting with Hook
ed~y-CTOOkedy. 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 a beautiful ard charming
girl. The next thing the grand ad-
wiser ~counseled the king was tina he
should send his two new sons-in-laW.
the Prince of Spain n the Prince Of
France, to the Well of the Worlds End
for bottles of Ioea* to TAX 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
hin back two bottles of Ioca.
The Yellow Rose told Hookedy-
Crookedy all about this, and when he
had turned it over in his mind hi said
to himself, 81 will go and have a chat
with the mare and bear about this"
So off 20 the woods he went, and right
glad the mare and the bear were to see
him. He told them all that happened,
and then toll them how the kings
two s~ons-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, 81 want
you to &c 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 our 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 win propose to go in
and have a drink, and hen when you
are chatting Over our drink they will
propose hat the three of you separate
and every one Of you take a road by
yourself to go 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.
Won q Uraa RI This VNhnn thax- c+or - 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 can when you have
gone around the first bend and wish
for two bottles of Ioca from the Wells
of the Worlds End, and It once you
will have them" and then the mare
directed Jack fully all that he was to
do after. Jack thanked the mare and
babe goodbye to the mare and went
away.
The next day when the kings two
sons-in-law set out on their grand
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End. they had not gone far when Jack.
in a ragged Die suit and sitting on a
strong saddle on an old white skinny
horse, Joined them and told them he,
too, was going with them for a bottle
of IOca. Right heartily ashamed of
Jack, they would do anything to get
rid of him.
By and by when they came to where
the road parted in three they proposed
to have a drink, and as they set off to
drink they proposed that each AXE a
road for himself. and whoever was to
be back first with a bottle of Ioca
would be the greatest hero. They
agreed. and each chose his own road
and set out.
WheR Jack went around the first
bend he put on his wishing cap and
wished for two bottles of Ioca from the
Wells of the Worlds End, and no SOON
er had he wished than he had them,
and back again he came. and was not
very long, and when the other two
came riding up. surprised they were to
find Jack there before them. They
said that Jack had not beer TO the
Wells of the Worlds End, and it was
no Ioca he had with him, but some
water from the roadside.
No said Jack. take care that is
not our W story
"All right" said Jack, "just test
them: when the servant comes in with
the drinks you cut off his head and
then cure him with your bottle"
But both of them refused to do this.
for they knew their bottles could not
cure anything, but they defied Jack to
do it.
VERY soon I will do that" said Jack.
So when the servant came in with
his drinks Jack drew his sword and
dropped his head off him, and in a
minutes time with two drops from one
of his bottles of Ioca he had the head
on again.
Says they to Hoekedy- Crookedy.
What will you take for your two bot
tles?"
Saws Jack: "I will take the golden
balls of our marriage pledge, and also
to allow me to write something on your
backs"
And they agreed to this. They handed
over to Jack the two golden balls that
were THEN marriage tokens, and. living
down on the floor, they let Jack write
on their bare backs, and what Jack
wrote on each of them was, "This is
an unlawful married man." Then he
gave them the bottles of Ioca and they
brought them to the king, and Jack re-
turned to his garden again.
He did not tell the Yellow Rose where
he had been and what he was doing
only said he was away on a message
for her father. As soon as the king
got the bottles of Ioca he gave orders