| Show e JOEL AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS PRINCESS Part Part I 1 I I Once In a far away away- country country- there lived a pretty little princess who was Very good and kind as' as aswell ivell as and everyone who saw her fell In love with her at once There lived ne near r the palace a poor peasant boy named Joel Joe whose o f father worked worked In In the he kings king's gard garden n. n and poor Joel Joe was a cripple so that he could not work worl as his father did Sometimes Joels Joel's would bring him to the palace gardens and place himon himon him himon on on- ona a soft place among mong the bushes and watch him at flowers so that he could work and Joel would tell his father where whereto to plant a rosebush rosebush-or or the pansies where their colors colors' would show off the best Joel Joet was an artist but he lie did not know it and often h he would make little figures of mud And one day while white he hew the little lit little little lit lit- w was s molding a figure of a man tle princess came along and saw him Joel thought he had never heard such sucha a sweet voice as the princess had when she spoke to him and aud when he lie looked Into her pretty face and saw the kind kind- nessIn her eyes he quite lost his heart to her i iThe I IThe The little princess was so pleased with the mud men and n animals that Joel made that she begged the king to have him taught to make models from clay and s so it was that Joel became able to tomake tomake tomake make wonderful figures figures' of clay and by and by of marble But all the time he was at work the face that was ever before him was the Ufe face tace of the little princess so that when he made a a. Wonderful figure of the beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- Virgin her face was very like the II little We princess This wonderful figure he presented to the little princess and It was placed In her room at the foot of her bed And there every night she knelt before It and andI sal said In her hr a c country prayers St far Jar aw away away y from from where i ere l I the little princess lived there dwelt a a. avery avery very wicked y young ung king who made war on all the other kingdoms that t happened to strike his fancy for he was very greedy and wished to be the richest king kingIn In the whole world He would send out his big army of soldiers and tell them to bring back all the gold or wealth of ny sort t they sf found and ncr many times t the wicked soldiers sol bol- l diers made the coun countries they ransacked ve very poor o V I 1 Now this ls WICk wicked king ing heard heard of the beautiful little princess and that th there re was no other In the the- world who was BO so sosweet sweet and good and so pretty so he be decided decided decided de de- de- de tha that she should become his queen Without waiting to see her to find out if she wished to become his ls wife he sent out his army and told and told them to I bring her back with them and all the wealth her father possessed as well I Of course the father of ot the little princess princess prin prin- I cess knew nothing bout about the plan of this I bad king and so he J-ie was not prepared to defend himself or the little princess princess' and and when the soldiers of ot the bad king burst Into the palace It was too late to todo todo todo do anything Straight a t to the room of the w went some e oft of fl the soldiers er while others robbed the strongholds of the palace and took the gold Now It happened happe that the little princess princess princess prin prin- cess was on her knees in front of the beautiful image praying and In the lighted room the soldiers saw only the figure of the Virgin Quickly they ran to It and threw a heavy silken robe over It It- and while they were picking It up the frightened princess princess princess prin prin- cess not knowing what was happening crept under her bed and hid When the soldiers left lett the palace a a. great cry went up that the princess was wae nowhere to be found and that the sOldiers soldiers soldiers sol sOl- diers had carried her her- off her off but when she crept from under her bed the king and h queen quite forgot all they had lost they were so thankful their princess was sale u Nor did the soldiers of the bad king J discover they had an- an image Instead of 3 3 the pretty retty princess until they reached J the bad kings king's palace and uncovered the s Image Tomorrow orrow I will tell ell you what the bad ling king said and did but the little princess prin- prin M Aio Bess cess ess was safe so 50 you need not worry worry- Z about her Continued Continued tomorrow Copyright 1918 1818 by by the the McClure Newspaper News- News r paper Sy Syndicate New York City |
