The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-13
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board, the captain said: Wherever
did you get all that food for the
dog? Why, he's as round as sau-
sage, and as lazy as snail"
"Oh, IL you must know" said the
lad. II gave him the bones"
Good boy" said the captain, ito
think Of the dog"
So he spread out the cloth, and
at once the whole table was covered
all over with such brave meat and
drink as they had never before seen
in all their born days
Now when the hoy was again alone
with the dog, he wanted to try the
sword, SO he smote at the dog with
the black edge, and it fell dead on
the deck; but when be turned the
blade and smote with the white edge
the dog came to life again and wag-
ged his tail and fawned on his play
mate. But the book---that he could
not get tried just then.
Then they sailed well and far till
a storm overlook them which lasted
many days. so they lay to and drove
course, and could not tell where
they were. At last the wind fell,
land then they came to a country
far, far off that none of them knew:
but they could easily see there was
great grief there. as we'll there might
be, for the kings daughter was a
leper. The king came down to the
shore and asked was there any one
on board who could cure her and
make her well again.
| "No. there was not" That was
what they all said who were on
deck
/ "Is there no one else on board the
ship than those | see?" asked the
king.
t, Well: there's little beggar boy"
Well" said the king, "let him
come on deck
So when he came and heard what
the king wanted. he said he thought
he might cure her; and then the
captain got so wroth and mad with
rage that he ran round and round
like a squirrel in cage, for he
thought the boy was only putting
himself forward to do something in
which he was sure TO, fail, and he
told the king not to listen to such
childish chatter.
But the king only said that wit
came as children grew, and that
there was the making OF a man in
every BARN. The boy had said he
could do it. and he might as well
try After all, there we're many who
had tried and failed before him. So
he took him home to his daughter.
. he 1oI
the princess could lift her arm. Once
again he sang 1t, and she could sit
up in bed And when he had sung
it thrice. the kings daughter was as
we'll as you and / are.
The king was so glad he wanted 10
give him half his kingdom and the
princess to wife.
Eyes" said the lad, land and
power are fine things to have halt
Of" and he was very grateful; but
|, as for the princess, he was betrothe'
to another" he said, land he could
not take her to wife"
So he stayed there a while and
got half the kingdom; and when he
had not been very long there. wal
broke out, and the lad went out to
battle with the rest, and you may
fancy he did not spare the black
edge OF his sword. The enemy's sol
diers fell before him like flies. and
the king won the day. But when
they had eonauerer. he turned the
white edge. and they all rose ur
alive and became the kings soldiers
who had granted them their lives
But then there we're SO many OF
them that they we're badly of for
food, though the king wished tc
send them away full, both OF meal
and drink. So the lad had to brine
out his tablecloth, and then there
was not a man that lacked anything
Now when he had lived a little
/ longer with the king. he began tt
long to see the lord mayors daugh'
ter. So he fitted out four ships Of
war and set sail; and when he came
on the town where the lord mayer
lived he fred off his cannon like
thunder, till half the panes OF glass
In the town were shiyered. On boare
those ships everything was as grand
az In kings palace: and as FOL
himself, he had gold on every sean
of his coat, SO fine he was. 1t wa'
not long before the lord mayor came
down to the shore and asked II ths