News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-15

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foreman"
The page thought this would take
rather too long, SO he asked the
glazier whether he could not posi-
bly, begin with cutting the glass
and fixing windows and leave out
the rest so as to get on quicker. But
the glaiier Slook his head and as
sured the young fellow that every
good glazier had to begin his career
from the beginning or he could new
er be clever. So the page was
obliged to reconcile himself to his
fate.
The whole of the first year the
unfortunate young courtier spent
his time in running to the bakers
for bread for his master and in
washing and dressing the children.
In the second year he did nothing
but stop cracks with putty. In the
third year he learned how to cut
glass and fix windows, and at last,
at the commencement of the fourth
year, he was made foreman.
After having been foreman for
whole year he took leave Of his mas
ter, and, dressing himself up once
more in court dress, he walked
along the roads in deep thought,
wondering how he could possibly
become a king. AS he was walking
on a man came toward him, and,
seeing that the young courtier was
in deep thought, he stopped and
asked him whether he had lost any
thing.
"Well, 1 don't know that I have
exactly lost anything, but at any
rate | cannot find what l want"
"And what is that?"
"a kingdom. | am wondering
how on earth | can become a king"
"Well, if you had been a glazier,"
said the stranger, 81 might have
helped you"
"Tbat is just exactly what I amp
exclaimed the other. 81 have only
lately been foreman to glazier."
"Then you have nothing to fear.
You are no doubt aware that our
king decided some time ago to give
his youngest daughter in marriage
to a glazier who was to be at the
same time king or at any rate a
prince; but as they have been un-
successful in finding such a person
the king has been reluctantly
obliged to modify his demands by
adding two other conditions. The
bridegroom must in any case be
glazier; that, of course, goes with
out saying"
"But what are the two condi-
lions ?" asked the young courtier
excitedly.
"The first condition is that he
should please the princess, and the
second is that he should be noble
man by birth. There have already
been a great number of GLACIERS APP
plying at the palace, but not one Of
them took the princess fancy, and
all of them had coarse, rough hands
like those of the commonest gla-
zier."
When our young courtier heard
these words, he jumped three times
about a yard above the road for
very joy and then, turning around,
ran heller SHELTER back to the town
and presented himself at the palace
in less than no time.
The king at once ordered the
princess to be called, and when she
arrived he asked her whether this
young glazier took her fancy.
The princess glanced at the young
man, and, recognizing him, at once,
she blushed and said, ooh, yes"
The king ordered the young fell
low to take off his gloves and show
his hands, so that they might know
whether he was of noble birth. How
ever, the princess said that it was
quite unnecessary for the young
man to do anything of the kind, as
she felt perfectly certain that there
was no doubt>whatever Of his being
of noble birth and that his hands,
she was sure, would be as white as
those of prince.
So they we're married, and as the
young princess husband was a gla-
zier by profession as well as a no
bleman by birth he understood how
to treat a heart so delicate and frag-
lie as hers; therefore she lived bliss
fully to the end of her days without
any accident happening.