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Show THE PAYSONIAN. PAYSON, Xfi CONDENSED CLASSICS if IVANHOE if Brn Walter scott W X CwdmwM i by f WiiUam 4 iMfM Harris Walter BcottN education n a romance writer began wbUe be tvmh a child. It can be traced een to hla cradle, for be wnm atkg to aleep not with loUablfK but frith the lilting on its of the crilcri As noon Htnarta. n he could on deratasd stories hla ifrttoriniotbcr and aunt poured Into bis eager ear border fa lea of warfare and old Scottish ballads. lie erne a sickly child, and this resulted In a permanent Inmenena Bat aa a boy he ao far overcame this baadlcap that he was always In the thick of schoolboy fights, and none ol bfta comrades could climb better tlmn again demanded the wounded knight. .Nolnmg but ihe cloud of arrows flying so thick as to daze mine eyes, ni.d to hide the bowmen who shoot them." '1 hat cannot endure, said Ivanhoe; If they press not right on to carry the castle by pure force of arms, the archery may avail hut little against stone walls and bulwarks. Ixok for the knight of the Fetterlock, fair Rebecca, and see how he hears himself; for as the leader Is, so will his followers he. 1 see him not," said Uebecea. Foul craven I" exclaimed Ivanhoe; does he hleneh from the helm when the wind blows highest? He blenches not!' He blenches notl said ltehecea. I see him now; he leads a body of men close under the outer harrier of the barbican. They pull down the piles and palisades; they hew down the harriers with axes. Ills high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach In the barriers they rush in f they are thrust hack I heads tile defenders; I see his gigantic form above the press. They throng again to the breach, and the pass is disputed hand to hand, and man to man. God of Jacob! it Is the meeting of two fierce tides the conflict of two oceans moved by adverse winds! She tinned her head from the lattice, as If unable longer to endure a sight so t rrihle. Look forth again, Rebecca, said Ivanhoe, mistaking the cause of her reilrlng; "the archery must In some degree have ceased, since they are now lighting hand to hand. Look again; (lore Is now less (lunger." ltehecea again looked forth, and nl most immediately exclaimed: Holy f ptophets of the law! and the Black Knight fight hand to hand on tin- - breach, amid the roar of their followers, who watch the progress of the strife. Heaven strike with the cause of the oppressed and the captive!" She then uttered a loud shriek, and exclaimed, He Is down he Is Front-de-Boeu- be the ateep slopes of the Castle-roc- k Aa aooa as be was old enough to peed, be literally devoured books. He would aot read love atorlea or tales of family life, lie wanted always yarns of adventure or books of history. As A boy, he wan no steeped In chronicles of feudal Ilmen, In histories of bKone days, or In accounts of ficottlsh life that he waa already equipped with bin background for lysnhoe" and The Talisman, Kenilworth" and Quentin The Heart of Midlothian Durward, and Wavcrley. 1" He loved Scotland with a passionate down Who Is down? cried Ivanhoe; for devotion that has seldom been equalled Ho told Washington Irving that lie our dear ladys sake, tell me which thought he should die If he could not aee the heather at least once a year has fallen. The Black Knight," answered ReHe wrote straight out of his heart the llueot becca faintly; then Instantly again Breathes there the maa with soul sc shouted with But no eagerness: dead hut no I The name of the Lord of Who never to himself hath anldt This la my owa, my native land Hosts be blessed He Is on foot again, and fights as If there were 20 mens ND I must He Here like n strength In his single arm FIs sword Is broken; he snatches nn ax from a exbedridden monk I" claimed Ivanhoe, while yeoman ; he pushes Frontnlo-Boeu- f the game that gives me freedom or with blow on blow the giant sloops death Is played out by the huiuls of and totters like an oak under the steel others I Look from the window onre of the woodman. He falls he falls! again, kind maldeu, hut beware that . . . The Black Knight approaches you are not marked by the archers be- the postern with his huge ax the neath. Look once more, and tell me If thundering blows which he deals you they yet advance to the storm. may hear thorn above all the din and With patient courage Rebecca again shouts of the battle. Stones and took poat at the lattice. beams are hailed down on the bold "wiyt dgt mgL Rebaef champion ; he regards them no more Front-de-Itoou- A 1 e, UTAH, NOVEMBER it. Possibly it was our contemporary down the street,'" suggested Titus Titmouse was infuriated, but the editor, as he picked up a paperThis paper never prints the editor of tile Western Wrid shut weight. him up in two seconds. Is this the stale news. newspaper office I inquired Air. Tit are rust, is. Jeweler ft the mun mouse, Cant you pay me some responded the saints, we .it the desk. T)idnt this paper any thing on that hill you owe met trust. How much do you wantt' was a liar! Debtor It did not." Did In the passage at arms at Ashbv ap- nit it I was a scoundrel! Jevvler like enough to hire It Id say pears the Mysterious Knight, whom did not." Well, some paper said a lawyer to sue for the balance. the reader knows to he Ivanhoe, fresh from the Crusade in tin Holy Land; In the contests of chivalry he valiantly defeats the Norman eharnpnns, and bestows the prize of Queen of Beauty upon his youthful love, Rowena; the render gets but a glimpse of a still Two-fistemore mysterious knight, whom we d can only suspect to he the king. From the Jousts all Journey on their severnl ways, hut In the forest the Normans plan a lawless ambuscade and carry off to the castle of for motives of revenge, or passion, or greed, Ivanhoe, who had been wounded at Ashby; lteheeca, Rowena and Isaae Maybe somewhere theres a farmer of York. Tilt mysterious Knight of the who needs both hands to post his Fetterlock appears ns the timely lendprofit ledger. But hes a rare bird, a er of the merry men of the greenwood, who besiege the castle, to the great wager this very rare bird. And disaster of the lordly brigands. After when you locate him, youll find he calls the rescue of the prisoners, all save his farm his business. Rebecca, there follows the joyous celebration of the forest outlaws, n happy Interlude between the scenes of derri- than If they were thistledown or feathers I" By Saint Joan of Arc, said Ivanhoe, raising himself Joyfully on his couch, methought there was hut one man In England who might do such a deed I Ivanhoe was right ; the Black Knight of the Fetterlock was lUcImrd Ilantag-ane- t of the Lion Heart, king of England, only Just returned to his kingdom from the Holy Land, though but few knew of his arrival as jet. In his absence England hnd been under the selfish rule of the kings younger brother John, who was planning to usurp the kingdom. The great story teller gathers his characters together at the tournament of Ashby. There come for the sports of chivalry Rowena, heiress of the Saxon rulers, now dispossessed by the Normans, accompanied by her sturdy uncle, Cedric ; Rebecca, beautiful Jewish midden, whose fate is constantly Joined with that of Ivanhoe, disinherited son of Cedric, n father who will have naught to do w Ith a Saxon son who Is willing to accept the Normans and their ways, and even to he a devout follower of Richard the king; Isaac of York, Rebeccas father, wandering Jew of vast wealth, who Is constantly the prey of the ruthless Norman nobles, who would wring his riches from him by torture and Imprisonment; Robin Hood and his merry men of the forest glades, not forgetting the redotitahle Friar Tuck, equally adept In the ways of the clerk, the yeomnn or the roisterer. To them are added of Norman stock the Brian de Bols Ouilbert, the prior of Jorvaulx, and Irlnce John; Athelstane, Saxon lord, destined by Cedric for the hand of Rowena; Gurth the swine-herand Waraba, the Jester; and the mysterious Black Prince, who, like Ivanhoe, makes his appearance Incognito till he shall discover how thiugs have gone In his absence. Sir Walter prided himself on his mastery of what he called the big bow-woy style; no other of the novels Illustrates his power better thao Ivanhoe. One stately and stirring event follows another, all holding the reader rapt In thrills, but none quite as much as the siege of the castle of by Richard and his Saxon friends. Rebecca from the lattice recounting to the wounded Ivanhoe the fortunes of the battle stands out la the memory of many a reader as Sir Walters greatest success lu the grand style. And despite the heroic mold In which the characters are cast, they yet surpass In the hold they gain upon the reader. Few have closed the book without u sigh of regret that the hero had to make a choice between Rebecca and Rowena ; and in our day and country few cun fall to see the like ness In many respicts ard of the Lion Heart dent so lately gone. The knights are dust, And their good swords Their souls are with No between Richand the presi- Occasion for a Fight. 1 Profits Front-de-Boe- Ill Hes right! ISe COUNTRY ng-do. The strenuous king departed for still more strenuous struggles In winning his kingdom ; Rowena and Cedric sought their home; Ivanhoe followed his chief; Brian de Bols Ouilbert, Templar though he was and pledged to holy practices, bore off his unhappy prisoner, Rebecca. But he was discovered In his wicked designs by the austere head of his order. In on assembly of the Templars, however, Rebecca was condemned to death ns a sorceress who has seduced from the paths of virtue an unwilling knight! Her only chance for life lies in the ordeal by battle. Her one champion Is Ivanhoe, far away though lie Is, whom she had cured of the wound received at Ashby. Brian de by the Irony of chivalry, Is the champion of his order and of virtue In distress. At the last possible moment Ivnnhoe comes spurring to the lists, to a victory which all the laws of fiction foreordain. Hot after him comes clattering Richard and his train, to unfurl the royal standard as undisputed king of England. And all live happy ever after? Save only Rebecca If Ivanhoe must wed Rowena, every masculine reader feels that he would gladly offer himself to her rival. For as Prince John cried when first he saw her: By the bald scalp of Abraham, yonder Jewess must be the very model of perfection whose charms drove frantic the wisest king that ever lived ! Copyright, 1919, by Post Publishing Co (The Boston Post ) All rights reserved. Front-de-Boeu- w 5, 1920. GENTLEMAN is the business-farmer- s weekly. 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