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Show : JfC A STONE. I legend of How a Serpent ;n IJ a 1)1,1111011,1 t0' I " a King, io! L L0VE TOE HIS DOG. LttoBiwl Electricity The paralysed the Speaker I -flews Notes. I. 3erma Kaiser Kari lived . I ,rdiug tb an old legend, he Iil-h lie caused a -pillar to be : t bell on the top of it. to s . whoever demanded justice P the means of announcing fLiiV as he sat at dinner in I hP heard the bell ring, and sent I vsBts to bring the claimant I But the could find no one. M third time the bell rang, L, human being was to be seen. Ithe kaiser himself went forth, Ld a large serpent, which had Lf round the shaft of the pillar Ln in f'e very ttct of Pullin8 Iftid's will," said the monarch, brute 'oe broiigh before me. I I jUStice to none of God's creat-Lnt creat-Lnt was accordingly ushered hperial presence, and the kaiser litis he would to one of his own -Ly asking what it required. L made a most courteous rev-L rev-L eignaled in its own dumb La to follow. He did so, ac-LjbT ac-LjbT his court, and thecreature to the shores of the lake where I nest. Arrived there the kaiser . he cause of the serpent's seek-I seek-I for its nest, which was full of I occupied by a liideus toad of Is proportions, letoad be flung into the fire," f monarch, ''and let the. serpent I possession of (ho nest restored Ijays 'after, as the kaiser again Lsr.he was surprised at the ap-of ap-of the serpent, which this time to the hall unannounced. lions this mean?" thought "the Lie approached the table, and Keif on its tail dropped from its f;o an empty plate which stood k monarch a precious diamond, silently disappeared. This dia-L dia-L kaiser caused to be set in a tig, which lie presented to his I ranch beloved Fastrada. his stone had the virtue of at-land at-land who so received it from so long as he or she wore it, reiki re-iki the intense love of that indi-lt indi-lt was thus with Fastrada. For r did she place the, ring on her an the attachment of the kaiser, ore, nolonger knew any bounds, lis bve was more like madness r sane passion. But though the Iliad full power over love, it had Ir over death, and the niiehtv was sent into despair over the lemise of his wife s inconsolable. He would hot: the voice of friendship, but sor-i sor-i silence over the dead body of beautiful bride. He would not r to be buried. A t length Tur-lijishopof Tur-lijishopof Rheims, being made i the cause of the kaiser's in-ie in-ie grief, contrived to engage his i while ho removed the magic lately that the talisman was're-:! was're-:! spell was broken. The es-"erer, es-"erer, that he had helcl for as now transferred to the of the ring, Archbishoj) furious fur-ious ecclesiastic w as so perse-the perse-the emperor's affection that he 'st the talisman into a distant clntirrotimled one of the mon-siles, mon-siles, Mediate transference of tho roy-took roy-took place, aud the monarch tli and forever after during his M this castle and lake as' a love his wife. So rnuch did e attached to it that he direct-In direct-In should be huried there, and -ordingly, his remains rest until -Jewelers Weekly. |