The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-03-18
A Swedish Tale.

In Falup, a mining town in Sweden,
a hundred years and more ago, young
miner kissed his young bride, and said
to her:
Ga St. LucieD's day our love will be
blessed with the priests hand Then we
shall bo husband and wife, and we will
build US a little nest of our own
"And peace aud love shall dwell 10
it," said the beautiful bride, with Il sweet
smile, " for thou art my all n all, and
without thee l would choose to be in my
grave"
Bot whom the priest. in proclaiming
their bans in the church for the second
time before St Lucien's day, pronoun.
ced the words, "If now, any one can
show tho reaaon why these persons should
not be united in the bonds of matrimo-
N.Y." death was at hand. The young
man, as be passed her house the next
morning in his black mining garb, al
ready wore his shroud. lie raped up
on her window, and said Good morn.
ing but nqver returned to bid her
good evening lie never came back from
the niue; and all in vain she embroid.
cred for bin on that very morning a
black cravat with red border for the
wedding day. This she laid carefully
away, aud never ceased to mourn or weep
for him.
Meanwhile, time passed on the Sew.
on Years wal was fought tho partit on
of Poland took place; America became
free the French revolution aud the long
var began; Napoleon subdued Prussia
and the English bombarded Copenba-
gen. The husbandman scwed and reap.
ed, the miller ground. and the smith
hammered, and the miners dug after the
veins Of metal i'll their suttcrranean
workshops. As the miuers of Faluu. in
the year 1909, little before or after ST
Johns Day, were eXcavoting an open.
ing between two shafts, full three hun.
dred ellis below the ground, they dug
from the Rubbish and v.liIl water the
body of a "a man. entirely saturate
with iroD.NltIloL uut otherwise undecay.
ed and unateIe ;, hat one could dis.
tnguish bis features and age as well as
if he had died ooly al bour bef4re, or
had fallen asleep for little while at his
work.
But when they had brought him out
10 the light of day, father and mother,
friends and acquaintances, had been long
dead and no one could identify the sleep.
ing youth, or tell anything of his mis-
fortune, till she came, who was once the
betrothed of that miner who had one
day gone to the mine and never return.
ed Gray aud shrlveled, she came to
the place hobbing upon n crutch, aud
recognized her bridegroom, when, more
iu joyful ecstacy than pain, she sank down
upon the beloved form AS soon as she
had recovered her composure, she ex-
claimed " 1t is my bethrothed, whom
have mourned for fifty years, and whom
God now permits me to see once more
before | die. A week before the we'd
ding time be went under tho earth, and
never returned All the bystanders
were moved to tears as they beheld the
former bride, a wasted and feeble old
woman, aud the bridegroom still i'll the
beauty of youth and how, after the
| ieISN W ny JSHi'i hSi OutuAui iO'S
awoke again. But be never opened his
mouth to smile, nor bis eyes to recog
nize; and she, finally, as the only one
belonging to him and having a right tc
him, had him carried to her own little
room, till grave could be prepared il
the church,yard. The next day, when
all was ready. and the miners came tc
take him away, she opened little draw
er, and taking out the black silk cravat
tied it around his neck, and then accom-
panied Lim la her Sunday galb as II i
were their wedding day, aud not the day
of his burial. AS they laid him in th'
grave in the ehurcd.yard, she said -
Sleep well now for few days in thy
cold bridal bed and let not tho time
seem too long to thee. have now but
little more to do, and will soon como
and then will Lo day again" As SD,
was going away she looked back once
and said =" What the earth has once
restored, it will not second time with
hold"