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Show Features For Smaller, Folks I Ut Week's Who St George and the Drigon (From aa Old English Legend.) t One upon a tlm. In th errantry erran-try that I bow called England, ther ruled a king, so good and kind that h waa beloved by all la th yoalm. Only on was loved batter, and that waa hi beautiful daughter, the little princess, Sabre. Sa-bre. Like all lovely aria la kmc aa tale, ah was fair aa a lily, with area ef heaven s clear bl- and tree Ilk apaja gold. Her boaaty ef faee, however, waa a nothing aa compared ta her beauty of character. When ah rod abroad there waa a entile tor every passerby, aad a word of love with her cola for each beggar by th roadside. All waa p sane aad happlaee la the kingdom nattl on day a dreadful dread-ful thing happened. Down from th mountains of th North, right Into th pleasant valley where lay the king's city, can a ravening, fire-breathing dragoa. Be terrorised terror-ised tho country aide, aad wU h might, for behind him waa death and dee traction. H not oily killed frocks and herd, bat wantonly wan-tonly uprooted fruit trees, stamped and trampled fields ot growing rrara, and burned th gardens with hi breath of flam. - It was aot long until he came to the very gat of th King's city aad the people gathered oa th city walls ta terror to nee whet the moa-ater moa-ater waa like. Huge aa a forest tree waa hla body, burning eeala wore hla eye; a death dealing flam belched from his nostril aad from hi jagged, hideoa mouth shot a tongue like a Javelin! Not a ef the kings knight had armor ar-mor half as heavy as the scaly skin ot the dragoa: aot all the Msg's knights together dared to tack! him. Into the dty h snorted his threat and hla challenge. - The king offered htm any eric to leave and the monster naked a frightful ransom. ran-som. It was this: every moraine for thirty mornings! a dear little girl waa to he taken from her homo and mother, and was ta be tied ta a tree by the river's bank; every A iwvwnlna, firs brssthlnej ara night for thirty Bights, th dragoa was to heat aad when he found her, she would b devoured. Nobody No-body but a dragoa eosid hav thought of such a tristful schssaa nobody la the lead could avert it! How sad were the king aad hi knight. How troubled were aU mothers and lltU glrtsl AB llttl girls? Wall, all hut llttl Priaesaa Sahra. While everybody wpt aad pondered, aha though out a ama of her wa. "rather, dear." the said, aa she settled la Ma arms. 1 have a lovely love-ly plaa to sead away the dragoa. aad oeathlng tails me It will swe-eeed." swe-eeed." "SWety, whatever It ta, yoa must be right" said her father. "He von would sead a pma right to say lit. tie smbra. wh la over heaven's gift to vs. Whatever st Is, I promt." Little did he dream ot th thing she was going ta muausa sr th aaguiee H would cause him. . T know of a sarety my plaa urm work for good." llttl aebra said BMOmaly. "1 will b th first llttl girl to go to the dragon aad I prom-la prom-la be wttl ask ao mora. If I go Brut, truly I will h ta last" The king was frantic with gr!f aad fear; every mother m tha kingdom king-dom hugged that Sahra. whom they loved a Uetr very own, be spared: very maa tried to thiak f asm other plaa. bat the dragoa still stalkad the realm, destroying every foodstuff, so that tamta followed close. ' Then th king's high priest said, "Agala we will leave ft to the de-eisioa de-eisioa of Heaven. This mother pigeon shall b loosed her la to courtyard aad If ah fly - aorta, south or west. Sahra than not be taken, bat if she fry hits the east. It Is Heavua's decree that aba a-"' mttsrhvg a m ma sat abets their heads, th mother dew whewaa aad flau BUesghl fata the heart of the sunrise! Sadly, tamrfaiiy. they took Urn dearest ef ehOdrea into tho deeps of th tea est, bo aad bar ts a true aad with hitter tear left her to her dreadful fata. Slowly aad soils tally they wont back to th city, hut all thia time the mother pigeon was winging away, aad aot slowly either. Her cours lad to a road whore traveled travel-ed a lone knight, a brave aad gentle gen-tle knight who had beam away tor years upon a holy guest. Th dove Ut on hla shoulder aad eooed softly soft-ly hut Insistently Into his oar. flying fly-ing ahead a bit, thea rwtnratng as If to toll him to fallow and hasten. To may he sure th knight did thla. nor did he ride too faat. Th dove led the gallant knight through field and forest aad at last straight to a tree by th river bed wher llttl princes Sahra was calmly awaiting her fat. That fat was etoe : af hand. That th trees already could b beard aad felt the snorting, withering breath of tho monster, la his are-eas, are-eas, eertala March. Th pin trues bad been dripping pitch, aad quick as lsxhtamg the knight rolled a -great ball of it toauthor. As tha dragon writhed lata vunr , te brave knight dashed th great Vaa. of sticky pitch lata Us creature's oavaraous Jaws, sad before tho aa-ary aa-ary measter could pry hla fanga apart, the knight's lanoe was through hla wicked heart aad the terror of the land lay dying. Tea can Imagine th welcome, the flowers, the feasting, th wild dllsht of th kingdom as a knight rode hack to the city, bearing tfe.br darling Sahra beforu him oa his hone. The Mag. wtth his daughter daugh-ter slaspad undar his left arm. dabbed dab-bed the eight St. Oaorge. aad gave htm a glorious golds cross ts war. Although this happened ao .long ago. to this very day and hour aad minute, that amgllah soldier, who Is bravest, aaay wear, as yoa know, the cross of St Georgs nsoa hit breast. |
