Show nn P PIn In SWEETHEART Part Part II The poppies and Sweetheart slept and the crooked old woman kept on crooning the funny little verses and slowly crooked chairs and the table and the bed began to change Into abed a abed abed bed of ot nodding poppies and then then the I house disappeared and in its place I stood more poppies even the crooked little old woman had disappeared or changed into a poppy for she no longer could be seen By and by a horseman mounted ona on ona ona a beautiful black horse rode through the forest not far from where Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweet Sweet- heart lay sleeping in the bed of ot pop pop- pies ples The horseman had with POP POP-I him four tour attendants who rode behind him and every little while they would shade their eyes with their hands and look about I am afraid we will have to return re return return re- re turn without finding the flower said the horseman and my father will give his kingdom to my stepbrother but I have done my best to find the flower lower he asked for So the horseman you see see was a prince and his servants turned their horses into the road and presently they came upon the big bed of poppies poppies poppies pop pop- pies with wilh their nodding and drooping heads Oh but they will not do said the son These look like bi big bugs My father will not accept these I am sure But wait ait my Prince said one of his servants these buds may open inthe in inthe inthe the morning and you ou will have the flower you seek So the prince and his servants lay themselves down near the poppies and soon they were asleep but the prince was awake bright and early while yet his servants slept It was hardly daybreak but by the dim morning light the prince saw that the flowers were still buds not the blossoms he sought but while he looked he saw something that looked like spun gold among the buds and hurrying to it he saw the sleeping Sweetheart whose golden curls had looked like gold The prince knelt beside her and took her by one hand Are you real realor or are you just a beautiful flower he said If you are mortal open your eyes beautiful one speak to me Sweetheart opened her herbig big blue blueeyes blueeyes blueeyes eyes and looked straight into the eyes of the prince Are you the prince th the fairies have been telling me about while I slept she asked I do not know what the fairies have told you my beautiful one said the prince but I am a prince and if you will have me for tor your prince I shall be the happiest prince in the world in spite of ot losing my fathers father's kingdom Sweetheart blushed and told the prince she cared not for his kingdom or even if he were a prince that she loved him and would become his wife But wh why she asked will you ou lose your fathers father's kingdom 7 I will tell you said the prince I I have a stepmother who has ason a ason ason son of her own that she wishes to become king after my father and as asI asI I am in the way she persuaded my father who is a great reat lover of flowers to set a task for my stepbrother and me to find a flower with a big blossom blossom blossom blos blos- som growing in shades of red white and pink The flo flower er must be different Cromall from Crom all others that grow in the palace gardens and the one who brings the flower first to my father will ilI his kingdom I Z have hunted with my faithful servants everywhere but cannot find the flower I found this huge bed of buds They are not blossoms and will not do Look look and behold the flower you seek my prince cried the servants of ot the prince and there growing all around him the prince saw the poppies now opened in the morning light the very flower that did not grow in the palace garden arden The servants dug up the flowers by the fire roots and carried quantities of them to the king who was so delighted delighted de de- delighted lighted that he told his son he not r IP rl 1 Of flIP Q 1 17 0 I I i only would grant a any any make as wellI well y yI I will take tale this beau beai for my wife said th the pr she is the daughter Of a 1 I love her and would IJ n 11 wife H The king dared not note r e ethis this request for he had promise and so they w we wethe r the stepmother who had hadJ to get the kingdom for hion heon hi he on in anger so great U th mad and ran out of the thi was never seen after jj Her son ran after h he became of ot him no one v neither the son nor t th ever seen again and ever eye the fairies or the witch witches witches' S them Into big trees or sf could never do harm tO toja J Sweetheart and h her r pi r the cottage of ot who were so worried tl t slept for they were af heart had wandered in t tand and been lost fl When Sweetheart told story about the goblin a ani anti cl little woman they all sti sta forest to find the spot cottage stood but nop found that led to sucha b by and by they gave j 1 it turned to the palace v heart and her prince The prince gave gave to t trie he J his wife a beautiful beautiful- hoking hot ho hot king made the peasant an ai lord and lady so that ti no cause to blush for hIS hf her parents came to vis k they all lived long happ when the old king passed heart and her husband and S queen 11 Copyright 1916 by J tl Newspaper Syndicate Nets Nei |