Just for Fun by Robert Lawson

Author:Robert Lawson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2013-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Her mother ran after him. The neighbors ran with the mother. But the beggarman's legs were long and strong and his back was broad and unbending.

"Liban's in the bag, Liban's in the bag—stop him! Stop him!" cried her mother and the neighbors. But their cries only made him go faster and faster. When he came to the crossroads he laid the bag upon a bank, and he let Liban come out of it.

"Take me back to my mother," said Liban.

"Indeed, 111 do nothing of the kind," said the man, and now that he had taken off his ragged coat, and had washed his face in the stream, he looked a handsome sort of young man. "Here's a coach," he said. "It's waiting for you and me, and well go in it, not to the Court of Dusty Feet, but to the court in my father's castle where there will be one who will marry us. I put on the beggar's garb and carried this bag upon my back only to come to you, Liban, Beauty of Woman. There are many things I can do, but there are a few I can't do, and climbing a tree is one of them."

Then he put his arm around her and lifted her into the coach that was waiting there, with two black horses to draw it. They had just got into the coach when Liban's mother and the neighbors came up. The neighbors stopped to pick up the shower of silver that the coachman threw them, and the footman lifted Liban's mother and left her standing on the board beside him, and the coach went dashing on.

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