The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-22
The King and Queen Of HiI0ria Fin

examination Of he house. assisted by the three animals who
showed much interest he
Another night passed and in morning Alfred intending
to take walk and the country went to the front door ana
found there and both of 7hom very hand
some and nobeoong but covered with dust from mead 10 oo
The asked:
1t IS replied Alfred "and am the inn keeper he added
Il the King of Haria and this is the Queen and we are
eeng from an ogre out II whose house we escaped
lie pursuing US and the said that we could md safe
"Well dunno said Albert obviously q can't see how
are going against ogre that is If its real
"Oh he's real enough" King Menus. "When you
him viii have the slightest doubt But let IN for we
are cant o %e Hf9S5 a ad 14gq or for he imagined
that they were deuded but they had scarcely eaten
They fed at once to the very garrett but they could
dash the house from there He rushed from
tncy but he could mot find them for the doors in the house
seemed arveousy wonderfully arranged deude and
ysf ogre As fast he entered door another appeared
before him exhausted and mortified thing had
happened to him before he stumbled into the cows apart
ment to which she had time before retired and vas
placdly chewing her cud
Now the ogre had before seen such
for in this land they their milk from just
get our maple sugar and he was frightened at the great horned
bs but when IN r alarm she uttered loud and prolonged
moo he tainted from sheer fright
IheI the and IL a few minutes when the
had recovered lie did the thing fleeing
ue watched MN running away and not until the COW came up
and explained the matter did they dare down stairs but then
King Menus then told them that the had invaded the
kingdom of Hara and after devastating much of the land had
mountains where he daily tortured them by threatening
them Aomus offered large Alfred if he would
him the of returning to his kingdom
present he entirely destitute well totally ignorant
where he but the boy ignorant himself and all be
could promise the King that he could the
house until something turned up.
He did not the King anything about the wonderful dwell
however feeling that it should be kept and he per
mitted monarch imagine that he had either built had
inherited it.
IN the afternoon another stopped before the inn
and Alfred hurried meet him. This was old and
dressed In a large robe of crimson, al covered
with strange figures of animals moons, trianges
and queer wriggng symbols His hat tall and pointed and
tip hung assel by long silk cord In his hand
mammoth book with great brass clasps the weight of which
caused Linn lean His eyes black and piercing; be-
side they filled Alfred with of the could
reed his very thoughts. He said to the lad:
"IIa have sought you long! This house has been here
but a few days Whence you with itI
"1-I found it in the woods" sammered Alfred "Is it
yours lie that last the of the mystic dwelling had
arrived
at viii be mine replied the with the awful eyes,
fixing look upon the boy cit belonged Brother just
Plus Verspicken, who Flmous magician. myself
but he My Is Doderumnus perhaps
you have heard OF me y