St Nicholas [serial] . FRITZ GUIDES THE BARON. the king addressed him thus: Brave sir, I haveceded to you the princess and the half of my king- dom. Of course, you are aware that the crowirepresents the kingdom, and without that a maiis no king. Very unfortunately, youjcrown is at present in charge of thecivil and military authorities of Stultzburg. Now, continued the king further, these civil and military authorities are very jealous of the crown, ancshould you inadvertently show yourlself to them while endeavoring to obtain it, they may accidentally shoot yoton the spot, or clap you into pri
St Nicholas [serial] . FRITZ GUIDES THE BARON. the king addressed him thus: Brave sir, I haveceded to you the princess and the half of my king- dom. Of course, you are aware that the crowirepresents the kingdom, and without that a maiis no king. Very unfortunately, youjcrown is at present in charge of thecivil and military authorities of Stultzburg. Now, continued the king further, these civil and military authorities are very jealous of the crown, ancshould you inadvertently show yourlself to them while endeavoring to obtain it, they may accidentally shoot yoton the spot, or clap you into prisorfor the rest of your natural existencewhich would be very uncomfortabliindeed. If, to-morrow morning, yoibring me the crown, the princess iyours. If you do not bring it, an<after that time you are discovered iimy dominions, I cannot answer for your safetyGood-morning. Now, the truth was, the unprincipled king haicaused his crown to be locked in a strong box, thkey of which he intrusted to the mayor, and i. I HAVE BROUGHT YOU THE BARON S HEAD. charge of these same civil and military authoritieswith strict orders to arrest any one who shoulappear in the council-room where the box was tbe kept, and convey him instantly to prison. Now Stultzburg was a great sausage manufacluring town. Every week whole droves of pigwere driven in, and every week whole miles osausage were carried out of it. Everybody ownepigs, and the more any one owned, of the morconsequence he was held in Stultzburg. ThPrincess Rosetta herself possessed a drove of thprettiest little pink pigs in the kingdom, with bluribbons on their tails; and the government ownvery extensive sties, the pigs from which, by sommysterious means, were apt to find their way intthe private pens of the councilors and financier:All the little school-boys of Stultzburg were taugtto write as a motto in their double-lined copbooks: The pen is mightier than the sword; I877-J DRUMMER FRITZ AND HIS EXPLOITS. 721 and instead of candies, it
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