The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19

knew who he was and that the best thing he could do was to stay at the town at the end of the next stage. which was a university town, and there try and make up for lost time by going to school and preparing himself for the future which might be good or bad as he made himself competent to take advantage of it. "I have seen some people spoiled by good fortune and others, hope, improved by hardship. Here is a bag which will supply your necessary wants-and remember the Fairy Backstick." The old lady had dismounted and was gone before the prince could re- cover from his astonishment. But he took the advice and, the magic bag supplying him with all things needed, he entered the university and became one of the steadiest and most diligent scholars connected with it. He lived simply, for the magic bag supplied only necessaries, no luxuries, and when he got down to work, to his sur prise, he rather enjoyed it.
 One day, just after Giglio had been awarded all the first prizes in the Uni versity of Bosforo, he sat down to quiet piece of cheese and a glass of beer and cast his eyes over the paper. There he read something which made him start. It was an account of the rising in favor of Rosalba and a short account of her his- tory, mentioning, of course, that she had been brought up at the court of Pafia- gonia as Betsinda. What could he do? What but espouse in arms at once the cause of his beloved Rosaiba, that Bet sinda whom he had grieved for as lost forever He reached the last town be- fore you come to the boundary of Grim Tartary, and was refreshing himself in an inn when an army, headed by Hedzoff, under the Paf1agonian banners, marched into the city.
 Gigilo at once appeared before the troops: What, my gallant, faithful friend Hedroff? Knowest thou not thy prince. Gigilo? Corporal, we should, me- thinks be known to each other; sergeant, if my memory serves me right, we had a bout once at singestick" And so he went on in the manner of royal personages when they by sheer personality win over armies to their side with the result that he soon had the soldiers cheering him, and gallant Hedzoff, quite beside himself, threw up his hat and cried: 'Hurray, hurray King Gigllo forever!' King Gigilo, for he had assumed the royal style, put ting himself at the head of the army sent to help King Padella against Queen Rosalba, marched at once to meet an- other army-the main force, in fact which under Prince Bulbo was two days behind marching from Patagonia to crush Rosalba.
 Meantime Rosalba had been having no end of adventure. It was true that the old nobility focked to her standards, but the people rather stood a1oof, saying to themselves that as far as they could re-. member they had been taxed just the same in the days of King Cavalfiore as in the reign of King Padella. and one of the greatest and most powerful of the nobles, Count Hogginario, who had at first espoused the cause of Rosalba, got so angry when she refused to marry him that he forsook her and betrayed her to Padella. So her army was defeated, ana she poor thing, taken prisoner. But no sooner had King Padela, who was wid- over, clapped eyes upon the beautiful maiden whose natural charms 1t must be remembered were heightened by that fatal ring, than he also wanted to make her his wife.
 When she haughtily refused him he first put her in an amphitheatre with some lions. But the lions refused to eat her: though they did gobble up Hoggin- armo, who declared that they were tame lions for some circus and jumped down into the ring to prove it. Then Padella ordered Rosalba thrown into dungeon and declared that he would torture her While this was going on Gigilo had rid den at the head of the first division of the Pahagonian army, met the division under Prince Bulbo, that division had gone over to him and he held Bulbo as hos tage. Hearing of the capture of Rosal- ba, he sent Hedzoff as herald to Pa della, demanding that he immediately re- sign the crown of Grim Tartary and re- lease Rosalba, which Padella refused But Rosalba escaped! The lions which had re- fused to eat her were, of course. the very ones that had taken care of her when she had been left alone in the woods as child and they knew her. which is why And now they came to her rescue. They