The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-21
BY SEUMAS MACMANUS

Lazy castlel" Aye. it's a quare name
IN troth. An It's as quare natured as
ten hundred years an II 1t stood ten hun
dred more 1t would never have anything
quarcr about 1t than the way 1t got It's
ticular. kings who owned two kingdoms
the i king Of NE! Tirbane an the King Of Tir
kane-an as was usual with neighbors,
there was always moro or less territory
in dispute atween them: but at this time
!! tell about there was a particularly
Tirkane,- an claimed by the king or Tir..
twenty years fhtin'. the king of Tirkane
maze nsepqSsa tq s shs an i've q twenty
years now says he. "an neither OF
US is able to overmaster the other. MY
search among his subjects an produce
the three best an most accomplished
men in three different lines Of art-name-
an our. LATEST meii-an' set the three
pairs of them to prove their abilities;
an whichever OF our people1yours or
contest, to his side will be adjudged the
says he. .''or is it not?"
It's fair an agreeable says the king
of Tlrbane. sage he, 'as a May day. an
call 1t bargain
Then. both OF them went an give out
agreement. an they called upon their
people to produce for them the three
6Sst Ias them IN hess three
doms set themselves. An they hrst an
within ther tas wsss eH
Of the king of Tirkane to prove which Of
Of them spoke = an told his wisdom. he
ment. an they VS. said that anything under
h9 san to Bu When TO he nss
spoke, shown his wisdom, they were I
dumfounded doubly IS bad. an they said AID
tell Of. But behold you, when the first
man spoke again. the other, they said.
was nowhere. But then the other. when
sst iii 70 on The nss theme
selves had to admit that there was noth-
ing wiser on the face of the earth than
a wiser man than themselves to tell which
was the wsest, an as 1t was impossible
to find such, then that contest would have
covered from the the battle OF the two wise
men. then the stupldest men of both
ag'in the other to prove which was the
! stup!dest. When the first man told how
| stupid he was. he showed hllnselr so e%-
| to rise an not waste any further time on
| that contest.
! But the king said: mo-. no; we must.
eyen for sea fsrms any yas; give the other
So. So for 70 form forms sake they consented to
sit down again an let. tho other man
e 81 sai man made his appearaneo an tod
how stupid he was, the judges there an
then wanted to give HIN the prifze WIN I'm
said that the other man was King
Solomon compared to him. ~
For four an twenty hours the = contest
G tyms s e; fn himself tsa times stpp!der
than tho other Fellow. till the poor Judges
got befogged again, an was able to give
no decision atween them. sg
An that case. too. had to be left as
That at was two Of the three contests
50 the whole thing now turned upon
The linE, Of T!rkane he 60. 9 :, y,
| life upon it. But, on tho other hand.
the king Of Trbane set geed man w w3as
known an noted as beln' the LATEST man
that ever numbered the earth. An 80
both sides We're certain Of victory. When
courts assembled, an the Judges sat, tho
two lazy champions We're carried IN 20. on !,
Sar a h9wR aoDn on the
Well. the kings an their courts am
the Judges had seen an known OF lazy
men III 'lnelr uuy, Out uIy lHluS 10 COHl-
pare With tho king of Tirkane's man
FOR lnziness they. had never. dreamt of,
let clone seen or known. An then. when
up his laziness, the sorra case they could
Gould they get out OF him but Erunts,
An the king Of Tlrbane was so agra
waited an maddened to soc the other
kings man prepared to talk for tho
length of a day an a night to prove his
case, while his own fellow would give out
! nothing but grunts that he jumped up,
without moro ado, sayin' that he give in,
an give UP the contest an the disputed
country to the king Of Tirliane; that the
fellow he had fetched there, belieyin. him
to be the --LATEST man. was only q fool,
an he himself was a bigger fool to fetch
him; an he Geld, moreover, that he was
such O. worthless fellow that no would
, never have him brought back into his
Then: says the king of Tirkane. gays
he, what. ae you goln to do with him?
III not take the support OF such q good
for,nothing fellow on my kingdom;
Is to take him off an bury him."
An the king OF Ttrkane consented that
this was the best an, the wisest thing,
while the fellow hlmself still lay on there
on the floor. never IA much as bilhkin,
King ct Eirbans to four OF his !, fellows,
s ss !ssnn aa h ssss oif 4m e 90 hands4t
low. an lifted him IKE q logs an. carried