The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-03-08
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THE POOR PRINcE-Part /

| The POOR PRiNCE-Part l.
| Once upon a time there lived a poor
prince.
! There was a big castle with little
in ii except old furniture. The fact
was the king and queen had died sud
denly and a wicked ogre had overrun
the country while the prince was too
young to- defend it. The ogre had car
ried away to his own country every
thing worth having, So that the peo-
pie were left poor and the young
prince with scarce enough TO eat
On the day when the prince was to
heard news of beautiful princess
who lived in another kingdom, about
100 miles away. His dinner was only
cold porridge and water. but when he
| heard of the lovely maiden he forgot
| in which she lived
But when he arrived there. all tired
| and dusty and ragged, he found the
guards would not admit him. What.
you a prince?" they laughed. You
look more like a rag picker.
So the poor prince was turned away
from the palace gate and went sor-
sleep beneath the trees. Early the
next morning he heard a great commo-
ton and saw people running about,
soldiers galloping down the road, and
heard i'll the distance the roar of can
non.
The great ogre from the frozen
north had stolen the princess in the
night, replied man OF whom the
prince asked the news
THE king says he will give the
princess in marriage to the one who
rescues her" continued the man. But
do not know of any one in this land
who would undertake the task. We
all love her, but no man is willing to
risk certain death on such useless
chase"
why is it certain DEATH" asked
the prince. : Il
Because no one has ever been
known to come back alive from the
ogre's CASTLE" replied the man.
But the prince decided to make the
journey. He was poor, but he was
brave, and nothing would prevent his
going. SO he set out at once to find
the princess. All that day he walked
through the forests. Once he stun |
bled over a wild OK and scrambled on |
It's back. The animal ran for hours /
straight toward the Black Mountains. I
which was great help, and when it !
dropped exhausted the prince found |
he was near the hut of some kind /
These men fed him
and gave him hot supper.
The next morning he started out
early. and as he began to climb the
an eagle swept by. The
prince grabbed the birds foot and was
carried far up over the mountain and
Town on the other side. The eagle
ilighted on the shore of the river of
&c. On the bank stood a sled which
had been left by a fisherman. The
prince stood upon it, opened his coat,
md with that as a sail, he flew over
he ice to the other side, where the
luge palace of the ogre rose in stone
urrets to the sky.
As he landed on the earth he looked
Up. and there striding along with his
read reaching the clouds was the huge
gre. He walked into the castle and
Hanged the great gate behind him.
lust then from an upper window in
over the prince caught sight of
air. pleading face looking at him. He
stepped back quickly to the bottom
II the wall. A note fluttered to his
eet. He picked it up and read:
IF you have come to save me. climb
onight up the vine on west side of
he wall. Keep still until moonrise,
" which time the ogre will be asleep.