Show i Ga Pr THE EAGLE AND THE PRINCESS PRINCESS PART PART II The night after the eagle cagle had failed tailed to get set the apple he returned to the tree and amI In Itt one cia claw he carried carrle a lit little little tit lit tle tie paper which held a powder ponder the tall fairy had J given ven him If H you can sprinkle it on his nose KO so that ho will and If It he closes all ten tell of or his eyes cys at once you youl willbo will willbo willbo bo able to p get t another red apple Kal said Kald tho fairy Down swooped the tho c. eagle le Oll twice and thrice before beCore he could get Jet near enough to sprinkle tho the powder and escape the ten tn cia of his nenny but hut at last the dragon caught the powder full on hi his no nose and a loud IU sneeze rang out over the mountain n ml arid all nil ten tn watchful eyes were ere closed for Cor a second But Bust it was enough and off oft flew theasle the thi e eagle asle with another red apple held heh tight In one claw Tho The little princess waS wa g for tor him and she sho stretched out her hand as ho he camo came near her window If It I live I will come again tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row with the tho other apple ho he said and away ho flow flew before beCore the princess princes s could coul thank him though she sho fully tully In Intended Intended intended In- In tended to do so this time The Tho first firs firstI t time limo she had been heen too surprised d to Ic I think of it I The Tho next night the eagle ragle carried c 1 tho the powder ponder hill heat th the tho d dragon agon was not notto notto notto to 11 be caught that way again ag Ills Ilia head was covered with a big grass mask which protected him and again tho eagle went away without th the pr precious clous apple and with another nothEr tall feather gone on That night the little tittle princess wept a again for now that she he wa was so 80 near being free tree It was wal harder than overto o er to b bear tr her disappointment hen the eagle went again to the tre tree e th tho old dragon might have seen had he looked closely that in his bill tho en eagle 11 carried something But ho was watching tho claws not claws not tho the bill Down Don camp came the tho eagle and just as the dragon gave cayO a spring at him he drop dropped d what he h held ld In hl his bill ri right righton ht on the head 1 of ot the dragon who was still wearing earing the glass mask k Bang Bans Sma Smash h resounded resounded over the mountain and then then then- then coo A coo chue And the eagle was v flying a. a away oty with a l red apple in hi his claw lIe Ho had dropped a big LiS stone Htone on the glass mask masl an anA an then had thrown the tho powder and tho the dragon had not had hada a chance to get set another tall feather teather while ho he had the apple that would free freo reo the princess This night the eagle easle did not fly flyaway flyaway I away when he hl gave the apple to the tiro princess s He lie alighted on the sill and then flew no 0 the floor loor and watched the princess 51 as she sho ate tho last red apple AH As sho swallowed the last mouthful a deep rumbling was heard It grew crew dark and when the princess could see again there thero stood before her a handsome handsome hand hand- some somo youth In place of ot the eagle nagle Princess you have c saved Band me rue he lie sa said 11 I r I nm am a prin prince o and the witch had hd ehan changed ed me mo Into an eagle cagle because IJ e er I r refused rt to marry h her r witch daughter daugh daugh- ter But Dut it was a fair fairy who told me meI I could be bc free I if I r could got get three apples from the tree treo and have have- them eaten by a princess But nut did she tell you that I I. I too Wl was under ul th the spell of oC th the old witch 7 asked d tho the princess smiling Eating the apples has saved me as well For look th chains have fallen from the thedoor thedoor thedoor door of It m my prison and I am free tree The too took bole the print princes s ns by the he led ter att ou out t and own own the nowhere not to tobe tobe toe was the ogre but stairs ho had fled tied when the ho for Cor be e CC that the tho theand began besan knowing rumbling of his wicked mother spell and anti powder end was wa at al nn an had disappeared pp eared a as The Tto tr tre and never ne again the tho dragon wl well ll and heard of ot were wre the they seen cen or 01 1 Whether bether the old witch had taken nil all her family said and gone t tj another part of oC the w world no w one ever knew Th and the tho princess were married that very night and were so to of ot their days das that the rest wry very hippy hi M than repaid them for tor all they the it more suffered from rom tilt the lee spell of oC the wicked wicked old witch Copyright 1919 by Lr tine the McClure Newspaper Newspaper News News- I paper Syndicate Now New York ell City |