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250 - IRELAND.
came : band of music, the players black men, and all dressed in the same
gaudy colour; and at every beat they gave the drum, it would strike fire, and
from out of the trumpets came a blazing flame; then, immediately following
the music, came the most exquisite baste of a horse that human eyes ever loolictl
on, with a coat black and shining, and his mane was like floss silk. Upon
this creature rode a young man of such perfect beauty that the prince could
hardly believe him human; upon looking at him a second time, the prince
thought he was rather dark-complexioned, but as he was a fair man himself
he was supposed to be no judge. As he passed where the prince was, Wll0
with the courtesy of a true-bom gentleman rose up to salute a strange":
he paused, and said ‘that as he was bound on a mission to the Lady 13"“:
would he follow him into her presence-as his page?’ and then the unfortunate
gentleman knew, the foreigner’s voice, and he shouted out, as loud as he could;
‘ Treacliery ;’ but one of the Ethiopians who followed in the deludcr’s trill"
threw a yellow, glittering powder over him, and behold! he lost the p0“'9T
of speech or motion, and remained fixed to the spot. In about an hour after-
wards the procession that had entered, began to return through the gates,
and this time the music was silent, and the attendants hung their heads; and
when the young and handsome tempter came out, he again paused, and said;
"lhe strength of the lovely Eva is greater than I thought; I tempted her to
the extent of the power of beauty in vain; but, unbelievcr, fail not to me“
me on the morrow, and,I will prove to you that .9710, the pure, the peerless,
will yield to the power of gold.’ It was not until the last of the train was
out of sight that the loyal prince recovered his presence of mind: he tllcn
found that his powers of speech and motion had‘ returned; he had 0ft0"
heard it said that the devil's lively was black and yellow, and he had I10
doubt Whatever that the mysterious foreigner and his satanic majcst)’ wow
one. So-he sought comfort from the eross.that had been erected near a little
spring that sparkled and murmured through the long grass and broad-leavcd
weeds. Before this cross he knelt, resolved to pass the remainder of the <13)’
and all. the night, in prayers for the good of the Lady Em. He went over
and over his "0S‘”3’3 ‘ and when the moon had not only risen, but descended
into the heavens-and her ladies in waiting, the bright silver stars, Were
creeping one by one to their blue beds-tliepoor prince bent his l1G1‘d
on his bosom, ‘and fell asleep. And while he slept, the murmur of tlielittle
trickling s rine became a voice . ’ 0 i ' . ' aid ‘Let
me 1” am up ,.:r:;:;":,;:,;:t::’ ::;:‘3;3:;;::%,;:..:1. bf
earth; I am not permitted to overflow the land, but to any who would C3115“
3 way to be made for me I would impart great knowledge,’ And the prince