The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-24

the diamonds in 1t and caused the big emer. ald in the top to fall out.
 But soon the King became quiet, and in calmer mood began to think of the advice offered by Hi Malig.
 "We have not q prison in the entire king dom." he said, rubbing his perspiring face with his embroidered pocket handkerchief. No one has done anything wrong for the last twenty-seyen and half years. and the prisons have been turned into sehoohouses and state offices"
 Very we'll said Hi Malig. then we must build a tower in n distant part of the king dom. where no one will be able to reach the Princes"
 The King raised his seepter again as if to whack Hi Malig, but that bad old fellow lodged and seurred away from the throne room.
 Naturally, King Homojy was much op- posed to such cruel way of dealing with his children, and Queen cuddlehoo, their mother, was very indignant Tt the Chief Counselor and Astrologer Extraordinary and wept and vowed her babies should never leave her sight. Yet In the end everything was arranged as HI Malig proposed. great number of men were set 10 work to con struct huge stone tower of such wonder tul thickness and height that no one could pierce It's walls or scale them.
 No door or window was within 150 feet SA Aht SAould. Np liidl IL NIS uttuleu lHl- possible for anyone to enter or leave the tower As so many men were employed on the great structure it was finished before another year came around and was at once made ready to receive the unfortunate little Princes. Great quantities of food were car ried to the prison and stored away: huge bolts of silks and satins and linens and many kinds of cloth were heaped into the closets, together with fine plate and dishes. library was built near the top of the tower and filled with all sorts of books-books for pleasure and books for study. Nor was there any Iack of beautiful playthings in the nursery below the library. In fact every thing was done to make the prison as com fortabe as could be.
 When these arrangements were completed the poor little Princes, not yet two years old, and therefore quite unaware of their coming Imprisonment, were marched at the head Of grand, if sorrowful, procession through the streets, all hung ill black streamers, for tue nation ordered to go into mourning for them, and out upon the distant plains, to where the big tower stood Here through a small opening they and an old gentleman, who had long been school master and who was to act as their guar dian and instructor, were thruS into the prison and the hole was again sealed so that the strength of all parts of the masonry was equal.
 Thea the procession returned to Cordeette, the capital of Nulream, to inform the sor- rowing King and Queen, who sat alone In their private apartments in the great palace aud wept bitterly, that the three Princes and their instructor were secure in the tower.
 For sometime after this there was q great deal of talk i'll the kingdom about the i'm prisonment, but before many months had passed the matter was seldom spoken of so SCOT do we cease to think of actions or things that are past. Indeed many of the inhabitants of Nulrealm as the months and years flew by scarcely remembered that there eyer were three little Princes in their country who were carried away and shut up between gloomy walls, all on account of an unpleasant prophecy.