The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-05-04
The Disconnected Miller,
BY GOLDSMITH.

Whang, the miller, was naturally ava.
rlcious nobody loved money better than
he, or more respected those who had it,
when people would talk of rich man in
company, Whang would saw
Il know him very well he and have
been long acquainted; /; and he l are iu-
innate"
But if ever poor man was mentioned
he bad not the least knowledge of the
man he might be very well for aught he
knew but he was not fond of making
many acquaintances, and loved to choo oos G
his company.
Whsng, however, with all his eager.
ness for riches, was poor. He had
nothing but the profits Of his mill to sup.
port him bat though hese were small.
they were certain ; while it stood and
went he was sure OF eating; and his fru-
gall'y was such that he had every day
laid some money by, which he could at
intervals count and contemplate with
much satisfaction. Yet still his acoui
sitions were not equal to his desires he
only found himself above want, whereas
he desired to be possessed of afiuence.
One day, as he was indulging these
wishes, he was informed that neighbor
of his had found pan of money under
ground, having heard of it three nights
running before. These tidings were dag.
gers TO the heart Of poor Whang.
"Here | am" says he, "toiing and
moiling from morning till night, for few
paliry farthings, while neighbor Thanks
only goes quietly TO bed and dreams him.
self into thousands before morning. o,
that l could dream like him With what
pleasure would dig round the pan J.
How slyly would carry il home not
even my wife shoald see me; and then,
o, pleasure OF thrusling ones hand into
heap oil gold up to the elbow"
Such reflections only served to make
the miller unhappy; he discontinued his
former asslduity he was quite disgusted
with small gains, and his customers began
to forsake him. Every day he repeated
the wish. and every night laid himself
down in order to dream. Fortune, that
was for long time unkind, at last, how
ever, seemed to smile on his distresscs,
and INDUCED him with the wished for
vision. He dreamed that under a certain
part Of the foundation Of his mill there
was concealed monstrous pan Of gold
and diamonds, buried deep in the ground
and covered with large fiat stone.
lie concealed his good luck from every
person as is usual in money dreams. in
order TO have the vision repeated the Two
succeeding nights, by which he should be
certain Of its truth. His wishes, in this,
we're also answered he still dreamed of
the same pan of money, in the very same
place. Now, therefore, it was past a
doubt f; SO getting up early in the third
morning. be repaired alone, with mat.
took IN his hand. TO the mill, and began
to undermine that part OF the wall to
which the vision had directed him.
The first omen Of success that he met
was broken ring; digging still deeper,
he turned up a house tile, quit new and
entire. At last, after much Digging, he
cap.e 10 o broad, fiat stone, but SO large
that it was beyond mans strength 10 re-
move it.
"Here p cried he in raptures to him.
self: "here it is under this stone, there is
room for very large pan OF diamonds in
deed. l must e'en go home to my wife
and tell her, the whole affair, and ge! her
to assist me in turning it up"
Away, therefore. he goes, ,and acquaints
his wife with every circumstance OF their
good fortune. Her raptures on this oc-
casion may easily be imagined. She flew
around his neck and embraced him in an
extasy Of joy; but these transports, how.
ever did not allay their eagerness to
know the exact sum: returning, therefore,
together to the same place where Whang
had been digging, there they found-not
indeed, the expected treasure-but the
mill their only support, undermined and
fallen.