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PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1896. FIVE CENTS A COPY.
THE PRINCESS IN HER GARDEN.
BY EVELYN SHARP.
The Princess was walking in her garden. It was a very beautiful garden, full of many-colored flowers and rare exotics; but the Princess was not fond of flowers, and she walked down the path without looking at them at all, and she felt dreadfully dull. For she had quarrelled with her yesterday's lover, and had just sent him away, so she had no one left to tease, and was therefore without an occupation.
"We are very beautiful," whispered the flowers on each side of her. "Won't you look at us?"
"Only look at our exquisite coloring," simpered the scarlet begonias. "Surely you must admire us."
But the Princess wandered on listlessly until she came to the high prickly hedge at the end of her garden, and here she stopped because the path ended and she could go no further. She was feeling so dull, however, that she actually scratched her white hands in making a hole in the hedge so that she could look through and see what was on the other side. She had always been told that nothing outside the palace was at all amusing, but she felt sure that anything would be better than her secluded garden path and her beautiful, uninteresting flowers. So she yawned lazily, and held on her crown with both hands, and peeped through the hedge. To her surprise she saw nothing but potatoes growing, acres and acres of potatoes, stretching as far as her eye could reach, and in the middle of them all a tall man digging.
"Oh!" said the Princess, in a disappointed tone, "only potatoes! How dull!"
"Nonsense!" said the tall man, without turning round; "they are only grown for you to eat. If you don't want to see them growing, you must not expect to eat them."
"But I don't eat your potatoes," said the Princess, "because I have a garden of my own."
"There are no potatoes in your garden," answered the tall man, just as roughly as before; "there is nothing but flowers there for you to look at. But here in our garden we have no flowers to look at. We have to live in an ugly place, and do ugly work all day long, so that you should have your potatoes to eat."
"Dear me!" exclaimed the Princess; "I never met such a rude man before. Does he know I am the Princess, I wonder?" And she walked back hastily to the palace.
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