The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-10

| bulk of water coming roaring into tie
gulch, but there was a man before it with
his mouth open, and a single drop of wa
ter didn't get past.
When Jack saw this, he stopped the
ship. and he asked the man who he wAs
or what he was doing 9.
Said the man: They call me. Drink-
well, and I'm drinking all the foods awiy
that come pouring into this gulch."
well" said Jack, you are a very
wonderful man entirely, and ! should like
to have you. How would you like TO
join my crew.
II should like it very much" says the
man, for more wonderful ship than
that one of yours, that could sail up
dry gulch, I've never seen, though I've
now been drinking this river dry for the
past three hundred years"
Into the ship with Jack and the others
he stepped, and off Jack started the ship
and never stopped until he hauled it UP
at the gate of the Kings castle in the
Land Beyond.
And when he had got there he sent for
the King, and demanded his daughter
OF him
The King came out in wonderment. He
did not want his daughter to marry at
ALL and that was why he put this con-
dition upon whoever should win her. for
of course. he believed that no one would
ever sail to his castle gate in a ship,
since il was nine hundred miles from sea,
Tough or river. Small wonder he was
aslonished then when he saw Jack and
the ship and his crew, and he asked Jack
for time to go in and consult with his
grand advisor.
Jack and his crew sat down outside
the gate.
II wonder" says Jack, says he to his
men "Who is he consulting, or what ad-
Vice he is getting?
I'm soon tell you that" say Hear-well
Don't speak"
They all kept silence. and Hear-weli
listened. and after minute, says he:
He's consulting with an old Witch, and
asking her what's best to be done. and
she Is saying that he must now put fur
Their commissions on you that you'll never
be able to carry out
Aud true enough. il was not long I'M
I'll the King came out again, and says he.
''The man who sails to this country 10
win my daughter must sleep one night
with his crew ON beds of harrowpins made
as fine and sharp as needles"
And he led Jack and his crew inside OF
the gate and showed them seven beds on
which they must sleep that night.
When the King went away Jack felt
very down hearted, and he said to his
crew: Come. let us get into the ship
again and start for home"
mot yet" said Iron-hand, "tlll 1 try
what l can do"
And he sat to at the beds with his
hond and in seven minutes he had the
seven beds as soft and as smooth as IL
they were made of feathers, and the sew
en- men lay down on them and had a
sound sleep that night.
Next morning, when the King came out
and saw the seven men rise. refreshed
from their beds he was COMPOUNDED, and
he asked Jack for time till he would con-
suit with his grand adviser.
Hear well always listened and heard
what was going on. and told Jack that
there were other conditions being pre-
pared for him.
After a while. the King came out ana
told Jack that any one who won his
daughter, must, himself and his crew,
eat within twenty-four hours, nine hun
bred head OF hogs, dogs, sheep. goats
and cows.
And when he went away Jack said 10
his crew: I'VE may o. well get into the
ship and start for home again"
Net YET" Gays Eat-weil, says he, "till