Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-02-23

nut, ana out OF tnat the water trsckle0.
"Good-day r' said Jack again. $50 you
lie here, aud trickle and run down all
alone?"
"Yes, do" said The walnut; and hers
have trickled and run this many long
day, waiting for you"
"Weli, here ] am" said Jack, as he took
up a lump of moss and plugged up the
hole, that the water mightn't run out
Then he put the walnut in his wallet, and
run down to his brothers.
swell, now," said Peter and Paul, shave
you found out where the water comes from 2
A rare sight it must have been!'
"Oh, after all, it was only hole il ran
ont of" said Jack, and so the Others laugh
ed and made game of him again, but Jack
didn't mind that bit.
"Afterall, l had the fun ofseeing it, said
lie.
So when they had gone bit farther,
they come to the kings palace; but as ev-
cry one in the kingdom had heard how
they might win the Princess aud half the
realm, if they could only fell the big oak
and dig the kings well, so many had come
to try their luck that the oak was now
twice as stout and big as it had been at
first, for two chips grew for every one they
hewed out with their axes, as dare say
you all bear in mind. So the king had
now laid it down as punishment, that if
any one tried and couldn't fell the oak, he
should be put on barre n island, and both
his ears were 10 be clipped of. But the
Two brothers didn't let themselves be scared
by that; they were quite sure they could
fell the oak, and Peter rs be was the Oldest,
was TO try his hand first; but it went with
him as with the rest who had hewn at the
oak; for every chip he cut out, two grew in
its place. So the kings men seized him
and clipped IF his ears, and put him out
on the island.
Now Paul, he SAID was TO try his luck,
but he Jared just the same; when he had
hewn two or three strokes, they began to
see the oak grow, and the kings men selz-
ed him, too, and clipped his ears, and put
him on the island; and his ears they clip
ped closer, because they said he ought to
have taken lesson from his brother.
So now Jack was to try.
"If you will look like marked sheep,
we're quite ready to clip your ears at once,
and then you'll save yourself some bother,
said the king, for he was angry with him
for his brothers sake.
"WelI, I'd just like to try first" said
Jack, aud so he got leave. Then he took
his axe out of his wallet and fitted it to bis
haft.
"Hew awayT said he to bis axe; and
away it hewed making the chips fly again,
so that it wasn't long before down came
the oak.
When that was done Jack pulled out
out bis spade and fitted it to its handle.
"Dig away" said he to the spade; and
so the spade began to dig and delve till
the earth and rock flew out in splinters,
and so he had the we'll soon dug out, you
may think.
And when he got it as Big and deep as
he chose, Jack took out his walnut and laid
it in one corner of the well, and pulled the
plug of moss out.
"Tricke and run," said Jack; and so The
nut trinkled and ran. till the water gushed
out of the hole in stream, and in a short
time the well was brimful.
Thus Jack had felled the oak which
shaded the kings palace, and dug well in
the palace yard, and so he got the Princess
and half the kingdom, as the king had said !;
but it was lucky for Peter and Paul that
they had lost their ears, else they had
heard each hour and day, how every one
said, swell, after all, Jack wasn't SO much
out of mind when he took 10 wandering.