The San Francisco call., 1910-10-30
DRAGOLJO Wins THE BEWITCHED PRINCESS, DRAGANA Is
(TransIated frem the Hungarian by
Louise Souvan)


\ had nothing under the shining sun
but boy by the name OF Dragoljo
and two goats. The goats she had
earned by her spindle The boy she sent
to school and the goats she sent out
into the woods to pasture.
One day the goats returned home
bleating vehemently. The mother called
Dragoljo and said: Go and milk the
goats at once, for they seem to act
rather oddly tonight" Dragoljo started
to milk the goats, and there, not drop
of milk came out. "A snake has taken
the milk from our goats" cried Dra-
goljo. II have often heard people say
that snakes do such things as that
Tomorrow early in the morning I'll go
out into the wood lie there in ambush
and kill the snake which is causing
such damage"
The following morning Dragoljo took
a hatchet and drove the goats into the
wood. Toward evening the goats com
menced to bleat dreadfuliy. Dragoljo
quickly jumped to his feet and saw a
fearful snake which was just about to
wind itself around the goats to draw
out their milk. Dragoljo reached out
with the hatchet, when suddenly the
snake began to speak and said: "Oh,
Dragoljo, do not kill mel / shall yet be
of great value to you. Here, take this
golden cloth If you twist this cloth
around the goats horn and shake 1t
well instantly every wish of yours will
be fulfilled. l am the daughter of the
snake emperors, and as have lost my
way. l dare not return home alone.
Please take me to my father, and as a
reward you may keep the cloth, but do
not take any other present from my
father If your life is dear to you. You
u I.sax rNuxy FOR IA
head"
Dragoljo started out to take the
snake to her home. They wandered
and wandered until they reached the
ocean. "a bridge!' said the snake
And Immediately there stood bridge
across the wide ocean, even up to the
snake emperor's castle. Dragoljo car
ried the snake across the bridge to the
snake emperor and said: Here, en-
peror, take your daughter. whose life
/ have spared and whom I have thus
brought back to you"
THANK you very much" said the
snake emperor. What is your hearts
desire? 1 want to reward your noble
deed
II thank your highness,' said Dra-
goljo. but your daughter has given
me little golden cloth, and that is
all ask for"
"Just that 1 can not let you have"
ask for something better?"
But Dragoljo would not have any
thing else and insisted upon the
golden cloth.
Well, to make it short, when the
emperor saw that Dragoljo was in no
way to be persuaded to accept some
other present he permitted him to take
the cloth. The snake princess accom-
panied Dragoljo as far as the bridge.
took leave of him and returned to her
father and Dragoljo went straight to
his goats. Arrived there, he twisted
the cloth around the horn of a goat.
shook it and wished himself a good
square meal. And. do look! In an
other minute there was such de-
licious dinner upon the ground as he
surely had never tasted the equal of in
all his life. He ate and drank all he
could and then went home, highly con-
tented At home he went right to bed,
but the golden cloth he put under his
pillow.
In the morning the first thing he did
was to tell his mother all that had hap
pened. He wished also to show her at
once the magic cloth. He reached un-
der the pillow to get 1t, and to his
great disappointment 1t was gone
What was to ~be done? Nothing. Dra-
goljo asked his mother for a goat-also
the dog and the cat--took his hatchet
and went out into the world.
Dragoljo and the three animals wan
dered on and on. and at last they came
into a dark wood, which was absolutely
strange to all of them, so that they
could see no way out Dragoljo COM
manded the cat to climb up a tree and
see where they really were and what
the surrounding country was like
Quickly the cat ran up the tree and
\ announced that in the far distance, un-
derneath the sun, magnificent castle
From her description Dragoljo recog-
nized at once the castle OF the snake
emperor. They all proceeded on their
journey in that direction and soon they
reached the ocean. Then he COM
manded the dog to take the cat upon
his back and thus cross the ocean
When they arrived in the back yard of
ho Ira