For Little Folks
J The White Bird
VV «Y By CHARLES SCHEUER
(Continued from last week)
“I should like,” saidvhe, “to
be carried to where I can find
the Sword of Brightness that
shines in the darkness, and cuts
whatever its edge is turned
against.” On they went for a
great long while, until" at last
they came to a tall castle as black
as your hat. In front of the
castle gate lay two great fiery
dragons sound asleep.
Down jumped the Prince from
the great yellow horse, and there
was the barley straw again. He
took out the Book of Knowledge
from his pocket, and this was
what it said:
“Pear not the dragons nor the
fierce soldiers, for they will not
awaken; but take only the old
•V leathern scabbard with the
sword.”
Into the castle he walked, and
there sat an old man. A great
keen sword lay on the table in
front of him, and tfie light on
the blade was like a flash of light
ning. The Prince took the sword
up from the table, and the little
old man looked at him, but Said
never a "word.
On the' wall hung three scab
bards: one was of gold studded
all over with precious stones, an
other of silver that gleamed like
the light of the moon in frosty
weather, and the third was of
nothing but old, shabby leather.
The Prince took down the sil
ver scabbard and thrust the
sword into it; and no sooner had
he sheathed the sword than the
old gray man began i to thump
on the table in front of hjm, and
to bawl at the top of his voice:
“Help! help! Here is one come
to steal our Sword of Bright
ness r
In ran the soldiers, but the
.. Prince begged and prayed, and
prayed and begged, that his life
might be spared.
“Listen,” says the old gray
man at last. “If you will prom
. ise to bring me the lyhite Bird
from the black mountain, I will
not only spare your life, but will
give you the Sword of Bright
ness into the bargain.”
Yes, the Prince would get the
White Bird if anybody in the
world could get it; and there,-,
upon they let him go, and glad
enough he was to get away. So
' he threw his leg over the barley
straw, and away thundered the
yellow horse like a storm in June.
At last they came to the black
—mountain, a_nd on the top of the
mountain sat an old witch with
v golden hair, and in her hand was
the White Bird. The Prince
opened his Book of Knowledge,
and there he read that if one
■ would gain the White Bird, one
g' would have to catch the witch
by her golden hair, for then she
would be compelled to grant
whatever was asked of her.
But how was he to climb the
hill without the witch seeing
him? So he turned over another
leaf of the Book of Knowledge,
and it said, “Crack the egg of
tiie white hen and put on the
. cap.”
The Prince cracked the egg,
and sure enough inside of it was
a little cap of feathers. He put
gn, the feather cap, and—whisk!
R ‘-r-as quick as a wink he was
changed into a tit-mouse, which
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is the least of all the birds in
that land.
He spread his wings, and flew,
and flew, and flew, and flew, until
he was close behind the witch
where she sat on the black moun
tain. He took off his cap, and
there he was in his own shape
again. Then he caught the old
witch by her golden hair an4 held
her fast,, and you should have
seen how she twisted and turned,
“I want the White Bird,” said
the Prince, ‘‘and I will be satis
fied with nothing else.” It was
all to no purpose that the old
witch stormed and scolded, for
what he had said he had said,
and he would be satisfied^ with
itothing else. So at last, willy
nilly, she had to give him what
he asked for, and it was a white
bird no longer, but the prettiest
lass that ever a body’s eyes
looked upon, with cheeks as red
as roses, and a skin as white as
snevfr.
Then the Prince drew the bar
ley straw out of his pocket and
threw his leg over it, and he took
the Princess ' up behind him on
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the great yellow horse, and away
they_ clattered, until they came
to the black castle.
The old gray man gave the lad
the Sword of Brightness quickly
enough, for the White Bird was
worth that and a great deal more.
Away he rode again, with the
White Bird sitting behind him*
until they came to the desert
place and the Tree of Happiness.
“Turn the edge of the blade
against the three giants,” and
there they lay, all three of them,
as dead as stocks, and the young
Prince rode away with .the Fruit
of Happiness in his pocket.
By-and-by he camq to the
place where the two houses
stood, the one on the one side of
the road and the one on the
other, and there he -met a great
crowd, and in the midst of all the
rest were his two brothers, so
they started home together.
By-and-by they felt weary and
sat down by the roadside to rest,
and as they sat there the young
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slept the' elder brothers stole
away the Sword of Brightness
and the Fruit of Happiness. Then
they wakened him and made him
strip off his fine clothes, and gave
him a parcel of rags and tatters
fit for no one but a beggar, and
he had to put them on or go
without.
As for the White Bird, they
made her vow ^hat she would say
nothing of all this. Then off they
marched with her and the Sword
of Brightness, and left the Prince
with never a stitch or thread that
was worth the having. _
Now the White Bird did noth
ing but weep, and neither this
brother nor that could draw the
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Sword of Brightness from its
leathern scabbard, and when the
King came to taste the Fruit of
Happiness it was as bittaras gall;
so, after all, the two gained noth
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But the young Prince was not
for giving up /all that he had lost
without trying to gpt what he'
could back again. Off he marched
in his rags and tatters until he
came to the castle where the
King his father lived.
After a while the folks came
out, one by .one and two'by two,
to walk in the garden and take
the air, and all the time the
Prince sat there and nobody
knew him.' ~ ^
Last of all came the old King,
and with him walked the White
Bird. The-vKing was for passing
the lad as all the rest had done.
But as soon as the White Bird
saw .Jiim she knew who he was,
and ran to him hnd threw her
arms around his neck and kissed
him. _ 4 ’
“Here is my own sweetheart,”
said she, “and he has come back
to me again.”
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J5o the Prince ' told the King
all that had happened from be
ginning to end, and how it real
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White Bird, the'Sword of Bright
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the elder brothers as they de
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them, for as soon as they heard
that the youngest Prince had
come home again they packed
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