The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-21
THE ROSE AND THE RING
CONTINUED from page Fifteen-)

muff ste wanted Tnereupon Giglio
pulled the vuIga travellers nose poAeo
his ears, ri him II the eye anu sasf9i
him q solemn warning never - can
aim d .muff* again.
The cid adv 10 whom Giglio gave
hte sea- idtimated to him In parLla8
thar she knew who he vas ana fhat
the hest thing he could do was 70 stay
1T the town at the end or the t1E<+
sy2ge. which was = university to~a'
and there try and make up for io"t
.me BIZ going TO school and preparing
himself for the future, which nllsh.
ne rood or bad. a. he made Elmsei1
competent 70 take advantage OF Il.
nave seen some people spoiled o good
~ortune and others, I hope, improved
~ hardship. Here il 2 bag when
4fn supply your necessary wants
and remember the Fairy Blaci1sick.
The old lady had dismounted ana
Was gone before the Prince could re-
cover from his astonishInent But ne
<aook the advice and, the magic bas
supplying him with all things needed,
ne entered the university and became
one OF the steadiest and most diligent
scholars connected with II. He lived
simply-for the magic bag supplied
only n~ecessaries, nc iuXurleS, aElO
when he got down TO work, TO his
surprise, he rather enjoyed IT.
One day, just after Giglio had been
awarded all the HIST pI4LtS HI AIlG
University OF Bosforo. he sat down 70
a quiet piece Of cheese and a ~lass
of beer and cast his eyes over the pa
per. There he read something which
made HIM start. It was an ccoun
81 the rising in favor OF Rosalba and
q short ccoun Of her history, men
tioning. Of course, that she had been
brought at the court Of Patagonia a.
Betsinda. What could he do? What
but spouse in arms at once the cause
Of his beloved Rosalba, that Betsinda
whom he had grieEed 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 mi when an army, headed by
Hedzoff under the Paflagonian BAN
ners. marched into the city.
Giglio at once appeared before the
troops: What. my gallant, faithful
friend Hedzoff Knowest thou not
thy Prince. CYCLIC? Corporal, we
should, methinks. be known to each
other: sergeant, if my memory serves
ne right, we had a bout once at single
stick And SO he went on in the man
ner Of royal peFsorages 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: Murray.
Murray, King CYCLIC forever" King
CYCLIC, for he had assumed the royal
style. putting himself at the head OF
the army sent to help King Padella
against Queen Rosalba, marched at
once TO meet another arrny-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 adventures. 1t was true
that the old nobility flocked to her
standards, but the people rather stood
aioof, saying to themselves that az
Tar as they could remember they had
been taxed just the same in the DAYS
Of King Cavalflore as in the reign of
king Padella, and one Of the greatest
and most powerful of the mobiles,
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 defea.-
ed, and she. poor thing, taken prisoner.
But no sooner had King Padella. who
was a widower. clapped eyes upon the
beautiful maiden whose natural
charms it must be remembered were
heightened by that fatal ring, than he
also wanted to make her his wife.
When she naughtily refused him he
first put her in an amphitneatre with
some lions. But the lions refused t.
eat her; though they lie gobble up
H~osg.narmo, who declared that they
were tame lions from some circus and
jumped down into the ring to prove
it. Then Padella ordered Rosalba
thrown into q dungeon and declared
that he would torture her. While this
was "oino or Gigiio had ridden at tn.
head OF the first division of the Pafla-
roman army. met the division under
Prince Bulbo, that division had gone
over to him and he held Bulbo as
h~ostage. Hearing of the capture Of
Rosalha. he sent Hedzoff as a herald
to Pade'la. demanding that he irnme,
Giateiy resign TIE crown Of Grim Tar
tarv and release Rosalba. which Pa
della refused. Put ROeafba escaped |
The lions which had refused to eat her
were, of course. the very ones that had |
taken care Of her when she had bee.
left alone In the woods as a child and |