Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-12-13

All right, Sdlu me TAILOR. 'DuL now anu
when shall deliver jeanette to you 2"
"Oh, leave YOU to the choice of the means;
but as you are going to Keraeu to morrow, to-
morrow must have Jeanette. Now l warn
you not to fail"
SO the next day Nicholas was at hereau,
and began to cut out the cloth early ~ the
morning, when suddenly he said to jeanette
who was watching him =
Good gracious what a bother I'm pulled
up short for want of tools. I've lett my box
behind me, and l can't get on fer the want of
it"
OOH never mind" said the girl, "I'll 20
and fetch it for you"
You're no end Of good girl, Jeanette .
said the tailor there's the key; you'll find
the box on the board just beneath the window
But mind you don't open it, or you'll meet
with misfortune"
ono, no, ease your mind upon that score -
said annette. Il won't open it," And she
ran off
When she had got the box she put it under
her arm, and carried it carefully without
venturing ever to look at it. Presently she
thought she heard something inside it,-yes
there 1t was again; a regular whispering, a
titterlng, and what queer clatter-what an
odd noise it is. 81 wonder whether | could
see through the key-hole;" SO she took the
the box must be double. If l were to open
only little bit ? No that won't do, Nicholas
told me that there would be some accident if
did. However, it was only TO brighten me
that he said so! He's cunning fellow, and
does not want his secret to get wind. Its all
nonsense; what could happen if | did Just
LOOK into it Ii there is an animal inside, it
can't eat me, for it's not as big as l am"
- Reasoning thus, Jeanette, who was then in
the middle of wide common, gently opened
the lid of a box about an iu.h, but no sooner
had she done this, than whole host OF little
dwarts-not so large as your thimble, each
with little red cap upon his head-eapt to
the ground, and dancing around her, shrleked
at the top of their voices
''Somc work, mistress, some work -
Jeannette stood quite stupetied, with her
mouth open, and looking at the hide men as
they gatnbOled about her. But at this demand
for work, she thought fhe was lost unless she
could satisfy them; so she cried out
Come, little red caps, pull up all the brush
wood on the common"
the tufts of broom, and in hl Instant the whole
common was cleared.
"Some work, mistress, some work p they
cried again.
Make a great pile of the tufts YOU have
a heap as high as an oak
"Same work, mistress, some work." they
said again
"Now, my little men" said Jeanette,
"ciimb up to the top OF this pie and jump
down into the box" Whereupun they clam.
bered up to the top and leapt lightly down.
As so0u us the last was in the box, Jeanette
double locked it, and ran with it as hard as
she could to the tailor
SO Nicholas took all the pieces of cloth
which he had cut, and stuck needles aud
thread into them, and then opened his box to
give them to his dwarts TO Sew; but at the
sight OF the little men, who stretched out their
hands, thoroughly stained green, he cried out,
"What have you been doing, Jeanncltc, with
my little men, that they have made their
hands so dirty %
ON" she replied, II am sorry to say that,
in running back as fast as l could, l let the
box sip, and ali the poor little men fell upon
the grass, and when picked them up forgot
TO WASH their hands"
"Ah! Jeanette" said the tailor, "you are
very fortunate TO have Jared no worse"
"Wcll, never mind, she answered, "and as
your liue men are hard at work, come and
taste our cider"
SO Nicholas drank hard all day to drown
his vcXation, and at night lie could scarcely
get up 10 his room. However, when he was
there, he opened his box, and the dwarfs all
Jumped out and cried
"Some work, master, some work p
Garry me down into tn yard" said Ncho-
las Il want some fresh air, and my legs won't
carry me" So they took him down and
placed INN on the ground, saying again
Some work, master some work -
always that same aceursed song" said
Nicholas. "Well pick up all the chips that
the stone masons have been making"
SO the little redcaps filled every corner of
the yard, and soon made heap OF all the chips,
and then they ran back 10 Nicholas again, say.
ing
"Some work, MASTER some work p
But Nicholas was snoring, and when they
had half awoke him, all he could say was
Go to the devil.
AT these words the little demons carried of
the unhappy tailor, placed him ON the heap Of
grit and chips they had collected, rolled him
again and again in ii, and rubbed it into him
till it reached his very marrow, and he became
stone. And then they placed him under that
turret, where lie stands to this day.-Oace a
Week.