Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers. All Rights Reserved.
| published weekly. | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1896. | five cents a copy. |
| vol. xvii.—no. 886. | two dollars a year. |
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 notfond of flowers, and she walked down the path without looking at them atall, and she felt dreadfully dull. For she had quarrelled with heryesterday's lover, and had just sent him away, so she had no one left totease, 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."
"I," said a particularly ugly shrub with a foreign accent, "am unique. Iam surprised that you should pass me over."
But the Princess wandered on listlessly until she came to the highprickly hedge at the end of her garden, and here she stopped because thepath ended and she could go no further. She