We must again congratulate the Editors of this little monthly magazine of forty pages on the success they attain in keeping it generally interesting, and on the literary ability which it proves the missionary body in Corea to possess we say missionary body advisedly, as we notice that every one of the articles this issue contains is by an ordained Minister of a Protestant Church. The Rev, Jas. 8. Gales opens this number th another paper on Gorean History, selected from native writers. The period of these selections is the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries of our era; Kings and their servants and their adventures are the subjects of these ies, the best being of one Ondal, brother-in-law of Wan, who reigned aver Kogonryn, coming ta the throne in AD, 591. Ondal was a very poor beggar, caring for his old mother as hest he could, His story begins in the reign of the father of Wan, King Yang-sung, who a daughter who was "The King said ina Look here, miss, with all you will never do for a wife. I'll marry you off to When she was sixteen, he decided to y her to Ko, an official of S:
ighow, but his daughter aid: 'A King should be a man of his word. Are you going ta change what you have said so often? Even A conimon man would scorn to lie, much more a King. As the King's command now shows him false, will not obey." he King in anger said: "If you will not obey me you are not my child, away with you, do as you like'" The daughter accordingly concealed ten gold hairpins up her sleeve, and went off to Ondal's house. The ald mother noticing how soft her hands were would have nothing to do with a nobleman's child, so she started off to find Ondal, who collecting elm bark on the mountains, He took her for a fairy, and repulsed her. But she followed him to his house, and said: "But if our hearts agree, what difference whether we be rich or poor?" With the proceeds of the gold hair-pins they were able to start comfortably in life, the princess, who had evidently kept her feyes open when she was in the palace, wg her husband a sound piece of vice: "When buying horses, buy only palace ponies that grow thin and are turned out." And he turned the advice to good advantage. Ondal prospered and became the King's best General, and was finally killed in battle by stray arrow. The close of his story a touch of real pathos in it, "They placed him in a coffin, intending to carry him home for burial, but the coffin remained fast to the earth and could not he moved, until the King's daughter, his wife, came and, placing her haud on the coffin, said: Life and death are all settled Come, go back with me, won't you! and immediately the coffin could be moved."
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