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8 TIIK SUNDAY ' OREGOXIAN. PDRTLAXT), AITJL IS. 191.". w s SYXOPSIS OF PRIXCE AHMED AXD THE FAIRY. The three sons of the king of India all tcish io marry the Princess Xottronnihai. The king, not liking to choose between his sons, says that the one bringing to him at the end of a year the most unusual present can have thv princess. The. three princes travel in different directions, each in search of some strange object. Prince Houssain buys a magical rug, ichich trill instantly carry one to any place ichere one tcishes to go. Prince AH finds an ivory tube, in tchich one may sec any object desired to behold. Prince Ahmed purchases an apple, the smell of which, will cure any one iiho is sick. At the end of a year the three princes, having agreed to meet at a certain place, gather there. Prince AH beltg curious to see ichat his brothers have bought, shows them his tube and tells its magical poirer. Prince Jloussain, wishing to see the princess, snatches the tube from his brother and looks into it. He suddenly turns pale and drops at the feet of his brothers. (Continued from last Sunday.) FILLED with horror, the princes sprang to their feet and carried their brother to a couch. Prince Ahmed brought water and bathed his head, while Prince Ali franti cally rubbed his hands. Presently Prince Houssain opened his eyes and motioned wildly toward the tube. "The princess look, the princess," he mut tered in a tone so low his brothers could hardly hear him. Prince Ali ran to the tube, caught it up and placed it to his eyes. He gazed into it for some time and then said in a quavering voice: " Brothers, the princess is dying." " Dying," cried Prince Ahmed, and running op he snatched the tube from his brother's trembling hands. Prince Ahmed looked into the tube and saw the princess lying upon her bed. Her beautiful face was as white as marble ami many people stood about her w-eeping. One swift glance was enough to show him that the princess had but a short time to live. " Oh, brother," cried the prince, " if we could reach the princess in time I could save her-life. I have a wonderful apple. It has a strange magical power. By placing it to the nose of the princess she will instantly be cured." "But how are we to reach her in time? " cried Prince Ali. We are a full day's journey from the palace and the princess has but a few hours to live." : - Prince Houssain, who had partly recovered, and now sat on the side of the couch in a dazed sort of way, sprang to his feet and staggered to , a bundle on the opposite side of the room. He V Fttoco Tee 0V he found it, -and how it had carried the three brothers to the bedside of the princess in time to save her life. Prince Ali explained the great advantage of his ivory tube. " It was by look ing through his marvelous tube," cried he, hold ing the tube before the eyes of the king, " that we knew of the dangerous illness if the prin cess.'"" When Ali had finished. Prince Ahmed ,, " . , , . , ,. , stepped before the king. Holding his present pulled an old rug from it, and spreading the rug in his outstretched hand, he cried: " Behold the upon the floor he shouted the rug my magi- le that saved the princess !. If it had not cal rug will carry us to the princess If we all been for this mag.icai appie we wouid now all sit upon it and wish to be carried to her, we will be mourning. her death. So you see it was my immediately find ourselves by her bedside. present that saved her, and I think that I should - With a cry of joy the brothers threw them- be th one t j her h d selves upon tne rug ana an wisnea very nam to ;d h fe. , , nodd;ng his be carried to the princess. Instantly they found , , V . s . , . . , themselves seated upon the floor of her bed- iV"",'.- 1 , uuc -your ..MBi. room. The people gathered about the bed were thf, fe our d ear P"ncess- f greatly alarmed at seeing the three princes ap- But the aPPle could not have save4 h,er llfe, pear so suddenly out of nowhere, but their sur- l 1 hadnt brought it in time on my magical rug, prise was even greater ; when they saw Prince cried Princess Houssain excitedly. -Ahmed spring from the rug and place the magi- " If it had not been for my tube," put in' cal apple to the nose of the dying princess. Prince Ali, " we would not have known of her Presently the color came into her white sickness and she'd have died long before we cheeks again, her eyelids quivered, her dark reached home. It would then have been too eyes softly opened and she smiled up into the late to use the apple. So I think it was my faces of the anxious young men.. The princess wonderful tube that saved, her." then did a very strange thing for a person sup- "Well, well" said the king, in great perplex- posed to be dying. She sat straight up in bed ity, " I can't say that any one of you really the color j 'iiiiiiiw"""''' f- came into TTT Ca her whit V" vNN 0 distance thah his brother, his arrow could not be found, and the king after a long search, decided in favor of Prince Ali. . r.A . " T-. iU a T 1 j t l r r . 1 Tt ii. ' ' a.m m. uimg my tiuiiica iu me. x am going savea xne nie oi tne princess, ii was uic com- Houssain left the court and entered a monastery toft U,p- L , , . ' , . bmed Pwer i a" three of vur magical pres- where he spent the rest of his life as a monk. I he three brothers hurried to their father and ents. so I cannot possibly Cive the princess to pr: AhmoH fiimr thpr ue enmothinrrvorv knelt at his feet, each anxious to show what he any one of you after all."- strange about the disappearance of his arrow, cheeks had brought and to explain its wonderful charm. The king leaned back in his chair, closed his went in search of it, determined not to return . ' Arise, my sons, cried the king, " Arise' and eyes and thought deeply for some minutes. Sud- until he had found where it had fallen. He went ,agam' rejoice with me at the happy recovery of the denly he jumped to his feet and cried: "I have to the place where his brother's arrow had been princess. it I As vou are all eood shots with the bow and nicked uo and searched the pround carefullv for After the princes had embraced their father,, arrow we'll hold a contest and the man who a great distance, but could find no trace of his straight Into the cave. Prince Ahmed looked !d) they reminded him of his promise to give the shoots his arrow the greatest distance shall have own. v , the direction the arrow pointed and to- hiiur- princess in marriage to the one who brought the princess for his wife." - "This is mighty strange," he thought. "No prise saw there a great iron door. back from his travels the most wonderful pres- -The brothers agreed to the plan of the king one could possibly shoot so far as I seem to , "Well," he thought, "the arrow points tcTthe' cnJ; . and the next day, accompanied by the king and have shot." Suddenly it occurred to him that door as though it meant that I should enter u me,an t(keeP my promise, said the king, his court, they metjon the drill ground near the some magical, power must be at work. So he there." but before I pass judgment I must hear your palace. Prince Houssain shot first. Prince Ali hunted on till he came to a great forest and Placing his hands against the door; he Vave it story I have heard how the presents you shot next, and his arrow fell far beyond that of there the search was difficult, for he had to ex- a gentle push. Slowly it swung openl It was brought with you made possible the recovery his brother. Taking careful aim, Prince Ahmed amine each tree in his path, fearing that the as dark as night beyond and as silent as a tomb. ' ot the princess. Now let each one explain to me. bent his bow, bent it back so far it almost arrow might have stuck in one of them. At last Trembling with excitement, Prince -Ahmed the advantages of his present." rracked, and shot. His arrow traveled much he came to the side of a high mountain and at stepped inside and the great door closed softly Prince Houssain then spread hii rug before farther than the one shot by Prince Ali, and the opening of a small cave he saw his arrow. " behind him. the king. He told of its magical power, where although every one knew he had shot a greater wa3 lying upon the ground and pointing J (To be continued next Sunday) "W 1 ' j rATCH me hit him this time," whis pered the Turk as he chewed up a piece of paper and stuffed it into his ,j teenie weenie blow gun.. Sneaking quietly from behind a carpet sweeper, where the rest of the Teenie Weenies were hidden, the Turk skipped across a rug and hid behind the leg of a chair. Near the chair, on the soft rug, lay cat, sound asleep. - Aiming his blow gun at the sleeping cat, the Turk puffed out his cheeks until they were round as an apple, and then blew with all his might. Ping! went the wad of paper, right in the middle of the cat's head. Several of the Teenie Weenies behind the carpet sweeper giggled, the cat slowly opened one big eye, and sleepily looked around. Seeing the Turk peering from the chair leg the cat jumped to his feet and cried, " Well, good ness gracious, if it isn't the Teenie Weenies I " " Right you are ! " shouted the Turk, as ha stepped out from behind the chair leg. "Ho, Ho!" cried the cat, seeing the blow gun in the Turk's hand, " you are the fellow who has been shooting at me. Do you know I had the fun niest dream. I dreamed that a lot of mice had captured me, tied me down to the ground with ropes, and were shooting me with cannon," and the cat broke into a loud " ha ha." The rest of the Teenie Weenies came out,' laughing, from their hiding place, and gathered around the merry old cat. "Mr. Cat," shouted the Lady of Fashion, " won't you please give us all a ride on your back?" " I would be delighted to give you a ride," cried the cat, lying down flat upon the floor. " I am always glad to be of service to a lady. Hop on." The Teenie Weenies climbed up on the cat's back, and had a great lot of fun riding about the house. " O, isn't this great? " cried the lover, looking into his little sweetheart's eyes. " Yes it's just " but the little sweetheart never finished the sentence, for just then the cat saw a mouse! Bangl He jumped half way across the kitch en, bouncing off Teenie Weenie as he went. Then as the mouse scuttled under the refrigerator to escape, down crouched the cat to go after him. In the mad chase every last Teenie Weenie who had succeeded in sticking on during the jumping and the running was scrape1 right off the back of that excited cat onto the floor even the Cow Boy couldn't keep his seat. 'That's the last time I'll ever ride a cat," mut tered the policeman angrily, as he felt of a bump slowly swelling up on the back of his teenie weenie head. , (Copyright: 1915: By Wm. Donahey CtiW YTBitrrTtiPri i' mm urn n 1 1 111 rn7i'fflw;;,'n",r