Show THE WATER BOY 6 ONCE NCE upon a time there was A little princess who lived in a beautiful palace by the side aide of a river there was waa a garden with lawns lawna and fountains and the princess was wag a allowed to play there in her golden robe and you would have thought she would have been happy all the time but every once in u n while site she sold to her nurse Ni irsle I 1 hear some one crying do you hear it buther old nurse always went right on with her sewing as she rested on it marble bench in the sun and said stuff and nonsense your highness stun stuff and non nonsense 1 so the little princess prince is would go on playing in the garden and sity say nothing V W aki X the little princess U used sad to bring him things thing to eat more but she would go near the great wall that separated her garden from the river and try to hear through the stones atones where the sound of crying came from at last one day she found a n chink in the tie wall and she glued her eye aeye to the little hole and looked through and there here she found herself looking into a little dark room on the other side aide of the wall where lay a very dirty little boy crying as hard as he could esst I 1 said tho the little princess softly what are you crying about the little boy sat eat p in astonishment and nd looked around but at first he tell where the voice came from then he saw the little black eye of the princess shining through the hole and he came over to her wiping his eyes on his sleeve for he was ashamed of being caught crying 1 I was crying because I 1 wits hungry and cold he said but no matter I 1 will forget about it for a while I 1 have often been hungry and cold but the little princess had gone she went running off through the garden BB as fast as she could and the nurse did not see her because she had fallen falen asleep on the bench the princess ran up to the tea table and filled both her hands as full of goodies as she could and then ran back to the side of the river by the wall and began pulling at the little hole 1111 herel erel she cried help me to make this big bigger gerl 1 the little boy did as she bade him and together they made quite a big hole and site she passed the food in to him every day after that she used to bring him things to eat and they would talk sh she e found out that he be rowed people across the river to earn cam hla his living but that often the lie older boat yen gien got nil all the passengers and there kas no one tor for him to row across every day they made the hole bigger and bigger until it was almost large enough for him to get through so BO that he could play in her garden then one day a terrible storm came up the river and the water rose and rose against the garden wall the little princess was not allowed to go outdoors tint that day iler her thoughts were all tor for the boy in his bis dark room for she was afraid he would be drowned but her nurses thoughts were all for themselves tor for site she was afraid for their safety 1 I anve sent for your father the kingl king 1 the old nurse cried but I 1 am afraid he will be too late to take us away the water has risen all around the palace and the wall Is all that keeps us from the waves I 1 then there was a great crash and the sound of water pouring over the wall and the nurse gave up hope but the little princess was not afraid she cried out lit in joy for there she saw coming over the wall on the th crest of the hip wave her boy lie ile rowed up to them and helped them into the boat althou although gb the nurse being a snobbish old thing said bald even in the midst of the danger that she did not care much about riding with such a poorly clad oarsman but the little princess only laughed for she was a real princess and did not care about things like that so they were rescued and the princess told the king her father about it and told that she bould like to marry the boy when they gut older we will see how he can carry the duties of a prince it if he Is worthy perhaps you shall have your way so they gave the boy the duties of ft a prince and the clothes of a prince which are much less important but make much more of an impression on nurses and the like and as he be was a good prince they made him king in time and lie he married idar ried the little princess and they lived happy ever after Q by mcclure newspaper syndicate |