. St. Nicholas [serial] . d him-self with honor, the prize was declared to be his,and the beautiful maiden, accompanied by a largesuite, was sent by her father to be queen overFrance, while the fame of the fair ladys beautytraveled even faster than she herself. This wasnot strange, however, for excepting the drawbackof one deformed foot, her beauty was wondrousindeed. But it happened that a certain wicked lady ofhonor was not at all pleased with the choice KingPepin had made, and which had foiled her own i88o.] LADY BERTHA. I05 ambition ; so, quietly bribing some men, as wickedas herself, to c
. St. Nicholas [serial] . d him-self with honor, the prize was declared to be his,and the beautiful maiden, accompanied by a largesuite, was sent by her father to be queen overFrance, while the fame of the fair ladys beautytraveled even faster than she herself. This wasnot strange, however, for excepting the drawbackof one deformed foot, her beauty was wondrousindeed. But it happened that a certain wicked lady ofhonor was not at all pleased with the choice KingPepin had made, and which had foiled her own i88o.] LADY BERTHA. I05 ambition ; so, quietly bribing some men, as wickedas herself, to carry off the Lady Bertrada and slayher in the woods, she put in the place of this royalmaiden her own hideous and hateful fraud, you may be sure, was soon discovered, moonlight. She was extremely beautiful, and oneof her feet was remarkably long. Then the kinggave a cry of joy, for he knew he had found thereal Bertrada, alive, after all; and, happy once more,he carried home to the castle his lonsr-lost THE PITCHER F TEARS. and the false queen instantly put to death by com-mand of the royal and wrathful bridegroom. Late one evening, when the king was ridingthrough the woods after a long days hunt, he cameto a mill on the banks of the river Main, in which hefound a maiden diligently spinning in the pale This Bertrada, or Bertha, was the mother of thegreat and famous Emperor Charlemagne, and it isdue to a remembrance of this story about her thatyou will find on the walls of many Frenchchurches quaint pictures of ancient queens, per-fect excepting one deformed foot. I06 MYSTERY IN A MANSION. [December, MYSTERY IN A MANSION. (A S/ory of an S. S.)
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