The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-26

she. lit was better so. for what could you
DO yourself?'
The next day when il was near dinner
time he went off 10 the wood to the mare
and the bear and got on him the suit he
wore the day before in the battle and
mounted the mare and rode for the castle.
and when he came there all the gates
happened to be closed, bur he put the
mare at the walls which are nine miles
high.
The King scolded the gatekeepers, but
Jack said a trifie like that didn't Marin
him nor his mare. After dinner the King
asked him what did he think or MS t"0
daughters and husbands
Jack said they were very gooo' anu
asked him if he had any more in his ram
lily.
The King said they used to have another
daughter. the Youngest, but she would
not consent TO marry as he wished ana
he had banished her out of his slsht.
Jack said he would like to see her.
The King said he would never let her
under company again, but he could not re-
fuse Jack; so the Yellow Rose was Sent
for
Jack fell chatting with her ana useu
all his arts to win her, and, OF course
in this handsome Jack she did nos recog-
told her he had heard that she mad very
had taste to fall in love with an ugly
crooked wee fellow in her fathers gar
den
Il am handsome fellow, rich prince
saws Jack. and l will give you myselI
and all l possess if you will only say
you will accept me-"
She was highly insulted. and she show
ed him that very quickly. she satd,
won't sit here and hear the man love
abused" and she got up 40 leave.
"Iyell saws Jack, II admire your spir-
it. but before you co. says he, let me
make you little present and ne mama
cd her a tablecloth There" says ne
''if you marry Hookedy- Crookedy, as long
as YOU have this tablecloth you Will never
want eating and drinking of the BEST
The other two sisters grabbed 90 get
the tablecloth from her. but JACK put out
his hands and pushed them back.
At dinner time the next day Jack came
in a dress in which he had gone into the
second battle, and with the mare ne Clear
ed the walls as the day before
The King was enraged at the gatekeep-
ers and began 10 scold them, but JACK
laughed at them and said tribe ike
that was never to him and his mare
harmful.
After dinner was over the King asked
what he thought of his daughters ana
their husbands.
lack said they were very good and ask
ed him II he had any more in his fanhly.
The King Said IT have no more except
one daughter, who won't do as WISH
and who has fallen in love with an ugly
crooked wee fellow in my garden, ana
ordered her never to come in my sight
again" Nv
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 an
and Jack fell 90 chat with her he dla
all he could TO make her fall in love with
| him, and then told her OF all ms soo1 !
wealth ana good possessions and offered
himself to her. and said II she only would
marry him she would live with ease ana
luxury and happiness all the days OF ner
life things she would never know with
Hookedy- Crookedy.
But yellow Rose got very angry, ana
said. Il won't sit here and listen 10 such
things" and she got up to leave the
room.
well" says Jack, II admire your spir-
il. and before you go let me make you
a little present" SO he handed her purse
Here" says he, lis a purse, and all the
DAVIS yourself and okedy-Crookedy i've
YOU will never want for moaey, for that
purse will never be empty"
Her sisters made a grab to snatch Il
from her, but Jack showed them back ana
went out and Jack rode away with the
mare after dinner and left her in the
wood
When he came back to his garden ne
always came in the Hookedy- CrooKeoy
shin and always pretended he had been
por the King
The third day he went to The WOOD
again. He dressed In the suit in which
he had gone to the first battle and castle
and cleared the walls, and when the King
ecolded the gate keepers Jack tod MIN
never TO mind, as hat was small trihe
to him and his mare.
A very grand dinner indeed Jack had
This day and when they chatted after
dinner the King asked him how he liked
his daughters and their husbands.
He said he liked them very. WELL ana
asked him if he had any more IN MS lam
lily.
The King said no, except one foolish
daughter who wouldn't do as he wished.
and who fell in love with an ugly crook
Cd wee fellow in his garden and she
was never to come within his sight again.
Saws Jack, Il would like to see that
girl"
THE King said he could not refuse JACK
epv reouest he made, so he went for the
yellow Rose. When she came in Jack fell
into chat with her and did his very, very
hest to make her fall in love with him,
hut It was of no use He told her of all
his wealth and all his good possessions,
and said IL she would marry him she
would own all that, and al the days she
would live. she would be the happiest wo-
man of the wide world. but if she would
marry Hookedy- Crookedy, he said, she
would never be out of want and ha-dships,
besides having an ugly husband.
If the Yellow Rose was in rage the
two days before she was in a far greater
rage now. She said she wouldn't sit there
to listen TO that She told Jack that Hook
edy-Crookedy was In her eyes a far more
handsome and beautiful man than he and
than any of the Kings sons she had ever
seen. She said TO Jack If he was ten times
as handsome and 100 times as wealthy, she
wouldn't give Hookedy- Crookedy's little
finger for himself, or for all his wealth
and possessions, and then she got up to
leave the room.
WELL" says Jack, says he, II admire
your spirit very much, and" says he.
II would like to make you little present.
Here is a comb" he said, " and Il will
comb out of ones hair a bushel of gold
and a bushel Of silver every time they
comb with IT, and. besides" says he. at
will make handsome the ugliest man that