Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1886 — Easy Legends for New Beginners. [ARTICLE]

Easy Legends for New Beginners.

There was once a'Tdng. He believed himself some pumpkins. When he was home he bossed the hired help around in the most despotic manner, and when he went out he bluffed everybody he met" One day, as this king was walking in a country lane, he met a peasant. The peasant was named John L. Sullivan. The king ordered him out of the path, and when the peasant .didn’t seem to tumble, his royal highness took him by the neck. It was a bad ’ take—for the king. He was carried to his palace on a stretcher, surrounded by weeping courtiers. Everyone expected fliat an order would be ’ issued to put the peasant to death, but instead of that the king said: “Let him be rewarded with a bag of gold and six slaves. Any man who has the bravery to maintain his „ rights against the king shall be the king’s friend. ” Now', wasn’t that nice! Once upon a time there was a princess. She was one of seven children, and all the other children hated her becauseshe had such a sweet face and such a good temper. They called her many hard names, but she never gave them any chin-music in return. While the rest of them went to the roller rink and the circus and to surprise, par ties, this poor little princess was kept at home to pare potatoes and do the family mopping. The name of this princess was Susan B. Anthony. Many times she wept until her eyes were sore, but it didn’t do any good. One-night, when the children had, been particularly unkind to her before going off to hear Bob Ingersoll pitch into religion, the princess decided that she would poison herself. She hunted up a box of “Bough on Rats, ” and was about to swallow box and all when a gallant cavalier entered the room through the sky-light. He had on pink tights, and hejwore a toad-sticker, and the feather in his hat never cost less than $3. He was a great man. His name_was David Davis. He had heard all about the ornery way the princess was used, and had come as a committee of investigation. He sat down on the edge of the wood-box and Susan B. sat down on the kitchen floor, and they had a Ibng talk about matters in general. By and by David asked her to skip with him. She hung off just long enough to prove her modesty, and then

-y T — - _.a,. .., y. ", I took his arm and cheesed the racket. Search was nuule for her under the lied, behind the-pigpen and down cellar, but she could not be found, and everybody fried and cne<l and wished ijrej Kndn’t bebn so one-h’orfle mean toward heir.' i At the end of a year a grand caval-, cadi approached tiie palaet*. There ’were eighty white horses, and eighty knights with swords, and everybody pranced and kicked up and seemetl to be on a huckleberry picnic. It was the prujeess coming home t" see the folks. She their forgiveness, and they Wgged her pardon, and they had a regular old-fashioned Fourth of July around there for a week, with all loss fully covered by insurance. Wasn't that- just too sweet for anything Free Prenx.