Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-12-20


the vicar praisworthy and recommending
Have you not applied for parson-
age7' asked the Duke.
No, less than tlIirty-seven times" an
swered the vicar
And with what success o.
With none"
That Is very unjust" said the Duke.
Your Honor" said Reiter, Il can
find no words 10 express the deep sorrow
which fills me on account of this unde-
served neglect. am very easy satisfied
but have a mother s. years of age who
has not been able TO leave her sick bed
for the last three years. 1t almost burns
the heart within my body when l think
that | cannot give her the least help. If
II was not for religion TO console me, and
the holy duty to live and care for my
mother, | should fall victim to nv sor-
row."
You are a whole-souled fellow, and
talk like book - exclaimed the Duke.
Hare you not received of the consistory
any promise which entitle you to hopes of
a better future g
Il am for all fu,ure times repulsed."
Without grounds p
Without any"
a Don't you know why %
Il guess-but am not positive-it is
because | would not marry a certain
cook a.
Yes, SO. You was, perhaps, afraid
tha, the certain cook might sal; your soup
too much," laughed the Duke.
Certainly, since the Consistory salted
my petition, what would not the cook have
done" replied the vicar,
Very sensibIy spoken. Have you no
aim at a girl which you would like TO
make your wife g.
"Oh. yes, your Honor; brave indus
trious girl, who tends and nurses my mo-
lher like the apple of her eye-and she
is pattern of patience"
Why 2'
Because she waits for seventeen
years for me to marry her.
"All respect. But can you do nothing
else besides your preaching trade 90
" Without self praise, | am we'll vers-
ed in the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Ian.
guages, in mathematics, economy, in
anagemen, of the forest and the chase,
in brewing beer, in land and garden cul-
ture, in the raising of bees, in-'
Hold on, you know more than my
prime ministerial least it would appear
that you could even govern! Very well.
l will talk with the Minister an earnest
word. The next vacant parish no other
human being shall have, except yourself,
on this you can depend, and before l
break my word, sooner dismiss the
whole consistory."
At this moment the Master Of the
Horse stepped forward, and reported to
the Duke that his splendid horse Achilles
which he had bought few months ago
for 5000 florins-had thrown the best RI
der in the Dukes stables, and that there
would be no more hopes now Of subordi-
mating this horse The easily irritaled
Duke fell at once into a great fury, and
showered his whole anger upon the poor
vicar, saying: There we have the ell
egant present-many thousands | spend
in my great stable, and not one of the
well paid scrub-riders is able to ride my
golden fellow, the Achilles. | wish this
moment that the id jackasses were all
Kicked into the deepest HI. Idlers they
are. Idlers but not horsemen-eat,d drink
sleep, and hunting after tbs aprons, that
is their only science Just see yon long
footed leader of the file, he thinks how
wonderfully learned he is, bu, after all
he cannot ride my horse--to mount my
Achilles he dares not" Nay, with six
he could drive if | was to make a bishop
of him, but ride he cannot, notwithstand-
ing that his name is Reiter. 1t L only
knew one who could ride my Achilles, |
would make Of him preacher before The
sun would rise-upon my honor as a
Duke"
Beg pardon, your Honor" said the
vicar, 1" will ride Achilles. Riding is
Just my forte, and | would have added
this science TO the others acquired by me
and already enumerated, if | had no;
been afraid that i, would not be pro-
per for a vicar to speak of it with loud
acclamation."
He is a genius, let me embrace him.
cried the Duke trying to encircle HIM
with his arms. But the vicar, out of sur
o~l faI .n., h.