THE SLXDAY OREGOMAX. TOKTLAXD. AUGUST 22, 1915.
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fw it IW ore htaalifml tka fairira dreida to krima
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priarr. araka oat al 9 lima, mad dreida flat tkr ea
ajprrmsima tka maa drli-)kt at tka atkrr akalt ha
armndrnd traai araatifat Tka primra it arakrnrd
frit, and u-kra ka kaa admired tka print for
fma tka fairira eaata him to aaain fall atlrrp.
Tka prinrraa ia arakrnrd and fall im lota arilk tka
pnmrr. Ska tap dap tkat aka aritt marrp
tka pnana am arkom k aai in tka niakL Tka
primra Mi 11 aaaat. Kali art rontidrred intana
0md art that ap. Tka prinrrta kaa foairr krotkrr.
atka Ulierra krr tola and aria aal ta fnd krr prinee.
akam kr kriaaa lark aritk kirn, Tka lira art mar.
rtrd ad art forlk ta ritil tka fatkrr af Caaral-tamam.
(CcKlinutJ from last Sunday.)
PRINCE CAMARALZAMAN and hi
tovely bride. Trinccss Badoura. had
t"ppd one day for a rest beside a
Urge river, and the princess fell asleep
in Iter tent. The prince, going in presently,
noticed upon her dres a strange and beauti
ful jewel which he had never seen her wear
before, and. unfastening it. he took it outside
where he could see it better. As he was ex
amining it a bird suddcnJy swooped down,
snatched the jewel from his finccrs. and flew
away !
Knowing the jewel was precious to his
voting wife, the prince ran after the bird, and
"so eager was he that before he knew what he
was doing he was lost. Where his camp lay
"Knowing the jewel wasprecious to his young wife, the prince ran after the bird."
he could not tell. And worst of all, the bird
had flown quite out of sight.
3ad and poor and lonely, the prince wan
dered many days through a strange country,
until at last he came to a great city and, going
to a humble gate in a gTcat wall, he knocked
and asked of the old man who came to the
door a meal and a place to sleep.
The old man said, " Come in quickly, my
son. This is a city of very wicked people.
They kill all strangers. You must not be
seen."
He hurried Camaralzaman inside his little
house and heard all his story, after which he
said, "Sorrow and misfortune are yours,
young man. The home of your father is fully
a year's journey. It can only be reached from
here safely by a ship which sails once a year
from this port to the Ebony islands. That ship
has just sailed. The only thing for you to do,
therefore, is to stay here with me till another
ship is ready. I am gardener here and I need
an assistant. Stay with me, I will give you
one-fourth of the produce for your wages, and
you will be safe."
Trince Camaralzaman could think of no bet
ter plan, so he went to work in the garden.
The time went on, and at last the old man
said to him. " Stay alone here for a clay or
two. I am going out to ask about the boat that
should sail soon for the Ebony islands.'
So the prince stayed alone in the garden.
And in the afternoon as he sat resting under
a tree, hoping that he would soon be once
more on his way to his father and his wife,
he saw three birds struggling in the air above
him. Watching them, he saw one drop down
upon the ground dead, and when he went up
.o the dead bird he saw something shining in
the feathers. He stooped down, and there,'
caught in the feathers, was his wife's jewel,
the loss of which had caused all his present
trouble!
Rejoiced at finding it again, he went back
to his work, when suddenly his spade struck
against something hard in the ground 1 Look
ing carefully, he beheld a trap door of bronze,
with a great ring in it, and taking hold of the
ring, he opened the door and went down into
a small underground room, the sides of which
were lined with jars filled to the brim with
gold!.
When the old man returned that night he
said, "My son, I have good news for you.
Your ship sails in a very few days.'" .
" I, too, have news," answered Camaralza
man, and he led the old man to the storehouse
of hidden gold, where they rejoiced together.
They decided that the treasure should be
divided equally between them. The prince
could not think of a safe way in which to take
so much gold with him till the old man. said.
" My son, the olives of this country are par
ticularly large and fine. They always bring a
high price in the Ebony islands. Take jars of
olives, fill the lower parts with gold, cover the
gold with olives, and sail as an olive merchant.
Your treasure will be safe, and as an olive
merchant no one will question you as to your
right to sail away."
So it was arranged. They packed the jars,
together, and the prince, deciding that the
jewel of his dear wife would be safest among
the olives, put that into one of the great jars,
which were then fastened ready to be taken
on shipboard and sent away. .
But that night, when everything was ready
for the prince to set out for the boat that was
to carry him away, the old man who had be
friended him was taken sick. The prince did
everything he could to help him, and worked
over him all night, but early in the morning,
just before the men came to take the jars of
olives to the boat, the old gardener died.
Telling the men that he could not desert his
only friend now, and that the captain of the
boat must wait for him, the prince set about
the arrangements for the old man's funeral.
He hurried as much as he could, but it was
night before he was free to leave, and then
another dreadful disappointment awaited him.
When he reached the docks he found that the
ship had sailed away to the Ebony islands.
The captain had waited as long as he thought
proper, and then to please his other passen
gers he had sailed away.
What was worse, he had taken with him
Camaralzaman's precious jars of olives and
gold, so that the prince was as poor as when
he first came to the city, for he had already
given away the old gardener's share to' his
grandchildren. And, too, in one of those jars
was the precious jewel of his wife, the Princess
Badoura, the search for which had caused all
his trouble.
The prince sat down upon the empty docks
and wept. It would be a year before another
vessel sailed for the Ebony islands, another
whole year before he could once more start
3Ut "in search of his wife and his father. But
there was nothing to do but wait as patiently
as possible, so the prince put as good a face
on matters as he could and went back to hi3
.garden to work and wait for another year. It
was harder than the first year had been be
cause he missed the companionship of the kind
old man who had befriended him in this
strange country. .
In the meantime the Princess Badoura had
had strange and hard adventures of her own.
She had naturally been much astonished when,
on waking from her afternoon nap, she found
her beautiful jewel gone ancf her young bride
groom missing.
She and the attendants waited a long time
for Prince Camaralzaman to reappear. But at
last, when they had decided that some dread
ful misfortune had overtaken him, and they
might never see him again, they prepared to
continue the journey to the court of his father.
Fearful to travel as she was.without her hus
band, the princess, who was no shorter than
he and resembled him, put on a suit of his
clothes and took his name, and so as a prince
started out upon her travels. . She traveled day
and night till she reached a city by the sea,
named the City of Ebony, ruled over by King
Armanos, who sent for this supposed prince
to come and stay with him. Poor Princess
Badoura was fearful of accepting this invita
tion, but she went, only to discover that her
fears had been well founded.
(7o be continued next Sunday.)
V - XV J K 7
"G1
cried the General, bounding
E N E R A L, General," shouted the Cowboy,
catching the General by the shoulder and
shaking him out of a sound sleep, "there's a
bird out in the front yard who wants to see
you.
"What's up what's up?"
from the teenie weenie sofa.
"I don't know what's the matter," cried the Cowboy,
"but the bird is ereatly excited and wants to see you at
once.'
Snatching up his hat, the General hurried out onto the
teenie weenie porch. In the front yard stood a chattering,
weeping bird, surrounded by a group of wide-eyed Teenie
Weenies. "
" Madam," said the General, lifting his hat, "what can
I do for you?"
"O, General, you can do much," sobbed the bird.
" I-I-I'm about to be robbed I have come to ask your
help."
" The Teenie Weenies are always ready to help a lady
in distress," said the General with a bow.
" I want you to move my eggs. Two boys happened to
see my nest up in the tree, and I heard them say they were
going to climb up and get the eggs. They said they would
climb up right after lunch, so I want you to take my eggs
and move them to another nest that the boys do not know
about."
" Well be glad to help you," cried, the General. "Boys,
get a spool of thread and some pulleys, quick."
Soon the Teenie Weenies hurried over to the tree and
climbed to the bird's' nest. The Dunce fixed a pulley to a
"branch of the tree just above the nest. The thread was
then run through the pulley, and on6 by one the four eggs
were, lowered carefully to the ground. The Teenie
Weenies quickly carried the eggs over to another tree,
where they were pulled up and dropped safely into a de
serted nest that the bird had found.
"O dear, but I am relieved," sighed the bird as she set
tled down on her eggs.
"Look," cried the Cowboy, pointing down through the
leaves, "we got the eggs moved just in time."
Looking down at the ground, the bird and the Teenie
Weenies saw two boys run out of the house towards the
tree from which the eggs had just been taken. Putting a
ladder against the tree, the two boys climbed up to the
nest and peered into it.
" O gee, it's empty," cridd one of the boy;
"111 bet it's an old last year's nest," suggested the
other.
" That's funny," muttered the first boy, " I was sure I
saw a bird in it just this morning."
The Teenie Weenies and the bird smiled knowingly at
one another, and the Dunce had to hold his hand tight
over his mouth to keep from laughing out loud.
Copyright: ISIS: By Wk Donafcey.