Litchfield enquirer., 1857-01-08
A Swedish Tale.

In Falun, Q mining town In Sweden, hun
dred years or more ago, young miner kissed
his fair bride, and said to her
On ST Lncia's Day eur love viii be bless
ed by the priests hand. And then we shall
be husband and wife, and we Mill build nest
Of our own"
And peace and love shall dwell in ii, y said
Che bssutifri bride with q sweet smile, q fds
thou art my oil in ALL and without thee I would
choose to be in my grave"
But when the priest, in proclaiming their
bans in the church for the second time before
Saint Lucia's Day, pronounced these words,
II, now, any one can show reason why these
persons should not be united in the bonds of
matrimony," Death was at hand. The young
man, as he passed her house next morning in
his black mining garb, already wore his shroud
He raped upon her window, and said, good
morning-but never returned to bid her good
evening. He never came back from the mine,
end oil in vain she embroidered for him on that
very morning q black cravat with red bor-
der, for the wedding day This she laid care
fully away, aud never ceased to mourn or
weep for him,
Meanwhile. tine paesed on; the Seven Years
war was fought partit Of Poland took
place America bscamss ftee ! The Frennh rev
olution and the lo1g war began: Napoleon SUBJ
dued Prussia and the English bombarded Co
penhagon. The hushandman sowed and reap
ed, the miller ground and the smith hammered,
and the miners dug after the veins of metal in
their subterranean workshops. As 1.-THE miners
lot Faiun IN the year eighteen hundred and
nine, little before or after st. Johns Day,
were excavating on opening between two shafts
full three hundred ellis below the ground, they
dug from the rubbish and vitriol wefer the
body Of young man, entirely saturated with
iron vitriol, but otherwise undecayed and unal-
eered-so thatone could distinguish his fea-
tares and age as well as if he he had died on
" an hour before, or had fallen asleep for. q
little while at his work.
But when they had brought him to the light
Of day, father and mother, friends and &C
quaiutances, had long been dead no one
could identity the sleeping youth, or tell any
thing Of his misfortune, till she came, who was
once the betrothed Of that miner who had one
day gone to the mine aud never returned
Gray and shrivelled, she came to the place
hobbling upon a crutch, and recognised her
bridegroom, when, more in joyful ecstacy than
pain, she sank down upon the beloved FORM
As soon Is she had recovered her con,posure,
she exclaimed, ait is my betrothed, whom /
have meurned for fifty years, and whom God
now permits me to see once more before die
A week before the wedding time he went un-
der the earth and never retufIed." All the
bystanders were moved to tears, as they beheld
the former bride, wasted and feeble old wo-
man, and the bridegroom still in the beauty of
youth and now, after the lapse of fifty years,
her youthful love awoke again But he never
opened his mouth to smile, nor his eyes to re-
cognise; and she, finally, as the only one be-
longing to him and having q right to him,
hah hirf carried to her own little room, till q
grave could be prepared in the churchyard. =
The next day, when all was ready, and the
miners came to take. him away, she opened a
little drawer, and taking out the black silk era
vat, tied it around his neck, and then accom-
panied him in her Sunday garb, as if it were
their wedding day, aud not the day of his bu-
rial As they laid him in the grave in the
churchyard, she said "Sleep well now for a
few days in thy cold bridal bed, and let not
The time seem long to thee. have new but
ittlo more to do, and will leone soon; and then
it aiil be dug again,n As she was going
away, she iook.d back 0acs more and said,
:. What the earth has cree restored, il vii not
a secona time withheld