St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1853-01-13

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bed, Rips on the hearth and the spider,
behind the wheeiband, drew up her long
legs over her head. But Lenchen did
not sleep lang for the cat on the warm
hearth became very gay, and hummed
IS loud as spinning wheel. Then said
the maiden, '' If you would stay with ME
Rips, you mus, be ssill and not hum SO
load- But the cat nufnsured in her
1 .l,Ehiskers:--- d. zz..,s....,
sebIss.l J. ~ kssp spinnlng,
- sszs ne hss&a fsE liaea.'
u This made Flax Lenchen laugh. All
well, yon spin fine thread indeed, you
phrring cat. Be quiet now, and let me
60 TO sleep. To morrow you may .l
down to the wheel and spin a. much as
you like. And the ca, sill hummed
gently: -
Wheel without, or wheel within,
Still my thread spin, spin, spin.
Lenchen did not hear anything more:
for she fell asleep oves the ridiculous
thought of how the cat would look sitting
at the spinning wheel.
When she had woke in the morning,
she found something heavy on her feet,
and thought ofnothing, but iha, Rips had
been looking round for q place 10 sleep,
surprised was she when she saw q bum
die Of the finest thread lying on her bed,
full quarter of q hundred heavy! She
could not sufficiently admire the beau,i-
full spinning it was so fine, and the
threads were more smooth and even than
anything that she had ever seen, and it
was as white as if i, had been out seven
nights in the moonshine, and been
bleached in May-dew.
Lenchen no longer doubted that Rips
could spin. sken without a spinning
wheel, for 10 = else but the ca. could
have done it. she shared her break.
fast With her, ar kye great cup full
Of nm She seosl - hardly wait for
= 6lry Pen o'clock came
aid Isngh, his horse. to
!!'E' s's ss' s:'s:ss.:: s:'s 'ss.':''
Ial shad at the thread long
ygh, ,she be- be troubled about
ERE che g u it woven; for, at that
time goo ayers were scarce, and in
that region there were none at all with
this anxiety Lenchen Law down TO rest
but she was not disturbed by it, and soon
fell into small sweet sleep, and did not
hear how briskly the cat was spinning on
the hearth.
| When Lenchen awoke in the morning
there was something white directly over
her head. She thought at first it was the
! bed-cover, and turned il back; but there
| seemed to be no end to il, and this made
her wonder greatly. At last the dawn
ing Of day gave her great JOY, for, by The
I bright light which came in the window,
she saw il was an endless piece Of linen,
| and now her pleasure was unbounded
/ The linen was so smooth and SO thick
and SO fine and so white; such as Len.
chen had never seen. She began 10
measure it, and counted full sixty ellis and
over, go that her whole room was filled
with it. In her joy, Lenchen did not
observe that Rips during me night had
spun another heavy ball OF thread, and
" 10 the weaver could be she did not irnag-
| inc. But the weaver was no one but the
grea; spider which Lencher had brought
home from her grsndmother's on the old
wheel. She thought she might fall again,
! Sfrsm under the wheel band, and 50 pre-
pared herself habitation over Lenchen's
bed, where she had labored during the
night with Rips spinning, and had orna-
mented the tester with these beautiful
curtains.
You should now have seen Lenchsn,
how she wen, to work with her scissors,
though she was almost afraid At first TO
cut This fine linen, which seemed far too