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never tax my affection ? I will not only grant permission for good Old Kins Cole , but you shall be the chief of the affair . You shall be my comn&issioner ; I will command you to be my Shopman-in-Chief ; you shall be my Head Showman / ' So they built the shop , and made it all of splendid windows ; and Prince Cherry was made the Head Shopman . Now Old King Cole , wKo was very clever at these things , wishing to get it well done , would occasionally suggest and advise ; until &i last Prince Cherry took offence at so much impertinent intrusion , and he began to look coldly on Old King Cole , as if he did not see that that person was of any further use . Vexed ' and mortified , Old King Cole began to grow ; thin and to pine ; and when the islanders learned the reason , they began a little bit to murmur ,
asking , "Why Old King Cole should be left behind when he had suggest——* u Never , " cried Old King Cole ; " no one shall rival my prince , who is the creator of the great shop . " " Thou art an honest fellow , Old Kin £ ColeP' cried Prince Cherry , u and hast the discreetest mind of day man in this country . " So Old King Cole was takea into favour again , and Prince Cherry opened his shop ; whereat he was not a little proud , say-Ingto his courtiers , " It is the greatest event of our reign . " ^ These words are recorded in aistory , for the words of princes are always memorable , and those who hear , carry them , away graven in their hearts . Now Prince Cherry began to perceive his true position in the island , and he said to - himself Verily , I must be the cleverest man in this country ; for have I not taught the labourer ? how to labour ? Have I not taught them
how to build their houses ; how to behave ; how to say their prayers ? Have L not shown them haw to make a pretty hat , and helped to dress the army ? Have I not made them the great model shop ? Verily , it is a fortunate island wiijh me for its councillor ; and I must complete my good work . X must teach them how to govern ; siace there is nothing left for me to do except now to teach the officers of state their business , and to improve their rusty institutions . So he opened his mind to the Princess Fairstar , and she looked into his eyes with hers , which were the most beautiful in the world . She had £ pretty tyranny ., that lovely Princess Fairstar ; -which was always to command her bien aimeY her coeur cheri , to do what he -wanted . About'tins time the Princess Fairstar received a hostile message from a great ldhg , who lived a long way off , but whose dominions were so large that the root of the mountain on which he lived came close to the shore of
the island . He wa * -ai v < My proud king ; taller by a Tiead than any other man ; aad . very beathaiul in figure—for his chest was six feet round , and his wawt thirteen inchesVatndithree-quarters . He sat on a throne on the top of a great mfoujntain , clothed in a robe of bearskins . All round the foot of the niountaia continually galloped soldiers . on horseback ; and from , has throne ^ e ^ gre&t kim > , with grey eyes flashing like lightning in a rainy night , continually roared out commands to his galloping armies to keep on attacking his enemies all over the world . ^ ~ Nevertheless the islanders were not afraid of this king , and for a good reason ; since they found , that for all his hravery in ordering his armies to attack his enemies , he could * not be found in front of the foe himself . So they , said , if we frighten him . enough , surely he will hold his tongue . But Prince Cherry wasof different mind ; andhe had a reason .
The prince had a brother , who was a sovereign in his own right ; and this prince , whose name was Sincere , sat upon a throne right under tie mountain of the gr « it kiag . Although not large , Prince Sincere ' s" kingdom was very heautiinl ; he- had a castle all built of porcelain , so compact that , being an active man , he amused- himself on summer evenings witb . jumping over it and back again . His subjects were not numerous , for they were but \ enin all ; but they were of the highest rank : there were two archbishons , two generals in the army , two lords in waiting , two ladies , more beautiful than the sun and moon , and two footmen ; and every day they came to the step of the throne and knocked their foreheads against it , and each . laid sixpence at the feet , of the prince ; so that you may suppose that
he was . a 8 happy as a man can be . Now Prince Cherry thought that if they exasperated the great king , and he began to thunder from the top of his mountain , he would shatter the castle of Prince Siacere . So this wasji good opportunity for him . to begin his ne * nr task of teaching his princess ' s officers of state . He informed them that the people of her island were a shop-keeping people . He pointed out that if they provoked the thunder of the . great king , it would break the plate-glass in tlie front of their new shops ; and all the while he sent messages to Prince Sincere to tell him how he got . on ; which very much rejoiced the heart of the poor prince , and enabled him to pacify the great king .
Now in . the dominions of Princess Fairstar there was a wicked old fairy called Moloch , who lived upon the sour pap which she stole while the nurses were asLeep over the babies of the island ; aad this wicked old woman , seeing the state of the prince ' heart , went to him and whispered in his ear that he ought to be king over the island ; " for , ' said Moloch , " is not the woman
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Reverses of the Great . —Marie Antoinette , we will wager , was ofttimes as cheerful while-washing and combing the littl « dauphin ( before he , poor child , was taken from her ) , in the gloomy donjon of the Temple , as she bad been , in . the days of her glory , in the golden galleries of Yeraailles . Queen Margaret , in tlie forest with , her son , mollifying the robber , is a pleasanter sight to view than Queen Margaret the Gruel , an intriguing politician , decorating the Duke of York ' s head with a paper crown . Who would not sooner form unto himself an image of the Scottish Maty weeping in her first , innocent , French widowhood , or partaking of her
last melancholy repast at Fothering » y among her mourning domestics , than that 6 am *; Scottish Mary battling with Ruthyen for Rizzio ' s life , or listening in the grey morning for the n . wful sound which was to tell her that the deed of blood at the Kirk of Field was done , and that Henry Lord Darnley was dead ? Still for onu Porphyrogenitus , aa it were , bitrii in the purple—lapped in the velvet of a throne , with an orb for a plaything , und a sceptre for a . li > llipop , to come to poverty and meanness , to utter decay and loss of consideration' —be he ting , or be she- queen—ia very wretched and pity-moving to view . Dionjaius keeping school ( and dwelling on the verl ) luplo , you may be » ure ); Boudieea widowed , scourged , dishonoured , wandering up and down in search of vengeance ; Lear , old , rnad , and worao than childish , in the forest ; Zenobia ruined and in chains : Darius
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HOT AND COLD . Decidedly the British drama is reviving . On Wednesday evening we made a pilgrimage to the Nprth of Europe—t . e . to Sadler ' s Wells—attracted to those regions by Midsummer NighCs Dream . Imagine our astonishment when the boxkeeper politely informed us that " possibly we might just get standing room on a bench at the extreme back of the p it ;"—every nook and corner of the house was crammed . What better criticism of the performance can we give than that we did stand throughout the play ? a feat which almost equals that of the emc noet who threw off his hundred or two of
Lines " standum on one foot . We grudged neither the fatigue nor the inconvenience . Indeed , we were scarcely sensible of either while the play lasted , in spite of the Lslingtonian aristocracy , and the proximity of the refreshment stall . Seldom have we witnessed a more exquisite performance * We passed the evening ( in the attitude of Stylites ) in the true fairyland of Shakspeare and Mendlesohn . Before , as behind the curtain , the spectacle was interesting . A laore discriminating and attentive audience is not to be found than that same intellectual aristocracy of Islington . »
On the other hand , we learn from our contemporary , the Musical World , that on a recent Wednesday evening , when a concert in Exeter Hall was postponed on account of the inclemency of the weather , a file of carriages extended from the Priacess ' s Theatre to Regent-street on the one side , and to New Oxford-street on the other . The attraction was Hamlet , * with the part of Hamlet left out' many of our readers will exclaim : —Nothing of the kind . The part of Hamlet was performed by Mr . Charles Kean "in his usual style . " E .
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the inferior animal ? Are you not the husband of Fairstar ? Are you not , therefore , her master ? And can you aot order her to do as you please ?" " Very true , " says Prince Cherry ; iL it is very kind of you to remind me of it . " " Ah ! " cried . Moloch , princes never appreciate tlie advice of their best friends until they learn to test it in suffering . " u , " said Prince Cherry , " how caa I make my dear princess know her duty ? Because wives , you know , are verv obedient so long as they are fondled ; and I have nothing to complain of in that respect . But -when one begins to order " u Have you not , " said Moloch , " a right to use a stick no thicker than
your thumb ?" " But where shall I find such a stick ? " said Prince Cherry . " Next to the palace of the princess , ' * answered Moloch , " there is an ecclesiastical store , and in that store they keep sticks exiictly the thickness of a thumb ; so that any man "who gets his stick from the proper office may chastise his wife , and be praised for his pains . " " I never thought of that , " said Prince Cherry . He did not say , I was not avare of that , because princes are always aware of everything . "It is , " he observed , " the wisest thing that I have found in this precious-island . " It happened , however , that when the prince went to inquire for the stick * some of the islanders overheard him , aad they began to teel very angry for
their princess , and still more angry to think that he should nave held it necessary to teacfi them ; for aa soon as they found out that he did not think them the wisest people in the world , they began to doubt whether he was the wisest prince in the world . Next time he rode out in state ^ with his princess , he witnessed a very surprising miracle , at which he was very much downcast , and he could not shake it off his mind the whole day and the whole night . So , next day , not knowing what to do , nor what it meant , he determined to consult some one else beside the wicked fairy ; and he could not have done tetter than to go to Oldi King Cole ; and told him that he was troubled in his mind with what had happened when he was riding in state with bis
princess . " Andjwhat was it , " said Old King Cole , " that alarmed you bo ?" " It seemed to me , " said the prince , turning pale at the recollection , " that though I could see nothing in the streets but the houses and the peopleand I could see no difference , except that the people , who used to be all one smile , now looked ome frown—yet it seemed to me , that everywhere- — on the ground , in the air » in the houses , on the . tops of the houses , in the , very places which the people occupied—it seemed , by the sound 1 heard , that there could be nothing bat geese—ge « se , geese , geese everywhere , yet not a goose to be seen . Tell tne , oh ! Old King Cole , what it means ?" " When Old King Cole heard this story he turned , as pale as the prince , and said , " It means , O my Prince T tliat if you have any design in your heart you had better go no further ; but had better stick , for the future , Cherry , to the Shop . "
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . BOSC—Jam . loth , at 10 , Ra-ndolph-crescont , Edinburgh , the wife o t J . B . Du Bosc , Eaq , of Xoros do la Frontonwor a son . G ARNIER . —Jan . 6 , at No . 5 , Upper Harley-stroet , tho Lady Caroline Gamier , of a son . MOMUUDO . —Dec . 31 . at Pajsy , near Paris , tho wife of Lieutenant-Oolond McMurdo , of a son . MURRAY .-Jan 4 , at Notting-hill , tho wife of Major BHood Murray , of a daughter . WILSON . —Jan . 11 , at it > , Horeford-squaro , tho wife of Catrtaiu 11 . Wilaon , of a boh .
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" Deserted in his utmost need By those his former bounty fed ;" TJieodore of Corsica filing' Ms schedule in Ihe Insolvent Debtors' Court ; Caroline of Prussia bullied byNapolcoa ; Marat waiting f « r a tile of grenadiers to dispatch him ; for those who have once been 4 l your majesty , before whom chamberlains havfi walked backward , to be poor , to be despised , to be forgotten , must bo awful , should he instructive , is pitiable . —Dickens ' s "Household Words . *' Cavalry Swords . —In the Sikh war , arms , head * , hands , and leps of British soldiers were lopped off by the enemv on all sides , while Enelish swordsmen laboured often
in rain even to draw blood , let the Sikhs , us it was foun < l , used chiefly our own cast-off < lragoon blades , fitted into new hjtndlee , sharpened until they had a razor cogc , and worn in wooden scabbards , from whicli they were never drawn except in action . In such scabbards they were not blunted and tliey were noiseless ; they made none of that incessant clanbing which almost drowns t ! ie trumpet or bugle , and quite tlia word of command , in the ranks of our own cavalry regiments ; and which , unless the menwrap hay about the steel , renders any attempt at surprise by cavalry perfectly absurd . Tlie wooden scabbar « lB , it was found upon inquiry , are even less brittle than btoel ones . A squadron of tho Third Dragoons charged a baud of Sikh horsemen under Mayor Unett . The Sikhs let ihe squadron enter . A dragoon of the front rank
thrust with liis sword point at the nearest Sjkh . The weapon broke into the skin , but did not penetrate so far as to do any serious mischief . The Sikh , in return , struck the dragoon across the mouth , and took his head off . A Sikh at Chifliauwallahi galloped up to the horse artillery , cut down the two first men , and attacked the third . lie , seeing that his comrades had been unable to save their lives by the use of their blunt swords , left his sword in . th « scabbard , and fought off the assailant with his riding-whip—flogging away the Sikh'a horse , to keep the fatal arm at a safeaistance . So he saved himself . There can bo no doubt that heavy riding-whips would be more formidable weapons in all warfare than the cavalry swords now in use . —Dickens ' s " Household Words . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 14, 1854, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2021/page/20/
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