Show 1 J s Xing of ot had an only child a daughter She was clever and beautiful and kindhearted but terribly stubborn The only person who could manage her at all was the court jester Ho never flever contradicted her but shrewdly advised her always to do the tho very op opposite opposite of what he really wished her herto herto to do In this way the Princess and he got on beautifully together until one dreadful day On that day the King who had been bee busy examining papers was quietly In his study and the court jester was the only person waiting on I him The Princess was also in the apartment and amused herself by looking at everything in the room Suddenly she interrupted her father See what a funny old cloak Ive found in that big cupboard she ex exclaimed exclaimed claimed What do you ou keep it for tor taUter father The Iho King bel g go rather cross at the thein interruption in and forgetting his ls daugh daughters daughters unlucky stubbornness spoke rather rathor sharply and to the tho point Put it right back my dear Why pray tell demanded the Princess obstinately The court jester motioned to the King to be careful but in vain Because I bid you do so my daugh daughter ter and because young people should be bo seen s en rather than heard ho return returned ed irritably Then I shant declared the haughty Princess I shall put it on and see seo how I look in it and I prefer to be heard rather than seen myself Then paying no heed to tho Jesters violently shaken finger or her hr fathers sudden cry of 01 alarm she threw the cloak over her shoulders Instantly she vanished am I 17 she cried and trie 0 tear oft of the cloak but her ef efforts e forts were of ot no use for the cloak clung to her hor shoulders as If It It grew there Up in tho air she rose and away she floated over the city straight toward the country At last she sank gently to earth again In a quaint meadow It was wasa a sunny clear day and there was no one in sight except a n and her flock of ot geese So the Prin Princess Princess cess walked up to the tho child thinking she would send her to the village nearby to get her a carriage in which she could have herself driven home But when she sho spoke the little ono one screamed with terror and ran away Stupid child thought the tho Prin Princess Princess cess well tho village Is so close that Ill go myself But the same thing In the village Every Everyone one she spoke to ran away in terror till at last she was wasso wasso so tired and frightened herself that she almost wept And she was hun hungry hungry gry too and j so o when a tat fat bakers boy ran from her screaming and left his basket of rolls roUs on the ground the Princess calmly choso one and ate ato it itI I 1 can pay for It after atter I reach home she thought and for tor the milk too which I see the tho silly milk milkman milkman man left behind in his flight But oh I why does run away awa from me I 1 wonder And she might have continued won wondering wondering dering to this hour If it a curious thing had not happened It was growing dark and chilly chUly and the tho Princess was sitting by tho road roadside roadside side cold and unhappy without an idea how far from homo home she was and wishing sho had not bean so foolish and stubborn when she heard a soft cry of pain There on the grass near noar her was a tiny ragged baby boy just ablo to toddle He was whimper whimperIng Ing with pain for tor his little bare feet teet were bruised and cut The Princess forgot her troubles Oh poor darling she said and Jumped up And strange to say the baby stopped crying and let her bathe his feet in the tho brook and bandage them with strips from her soft sott mus muslin lin Un dress And then she gathered d him under tinder the theold theold old cloak and sang him to sleep Just as ashe ashe he tell fell asleep what do you suppose hap happened happened Why the Princess found her herself herself self lifted in air and flying straight to ward home How glad she waa to find herself at last floating through an open window into her own room And the tho moment her ller feet teet touched the floor off ote from irom her shoulders dropped the cloak She laid the sleeping child on her bed and rang for her hor old nurse Mercy on UK cried the nurse Wh W c t is this the Princess has brought home with her herThen herThen Then the tho Princess told her the story and after atter that went to seo her lather I 1 suppose he will bo be dreadfully an ious about me she sho thought But lo 10 and behold he wes was still sit ting calmly in his roo and the court jester was with him So you are aro back my nt dear he said with a twinkle in his eye And how did the cloak fit eh Oh father cried tha th Princess dont tease if It you ou please but ten tall ma me what is 19 that terrible cloak It is the magic cloak of Justice said the King and it punishes and re rewards rewards wards so strictly that I 1 keep It locked up You see it took ook you at your word and made you ou heard rather than seen Oh and that is the reason why every body screamed and ran away I see said the Princess Well V ell I dont won dor Im sure But why did it bring me we back Because you were good again of ot course courso said the King Oh I 1 see I was as good to tho boy Well I promise you father dear I am cured of ot stubbornness onoe and for all allAnd allAnd And she was too E D F |