Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-01-04

be the worse for you do you understand
me, you old tippler?"
"All right" said the tailor. "But
how and where shall 1 deliver Jeannette
to you?'
"Oh, I leave you to the choice of the
means; but as you are going to Kerleau
tomorrow, / must have Jeanette. Now
l warn you not to fail"
So the next day Nicholas was at Ker-
leau, and began to cut out the cloth early
in 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 my tools. I've
left my tools. I've left my box behind
me, and l can't get on for want of it.
"Oh, never mind" said the girl, "Tll
60 and fetch it for you.
You're no end of good girl JEAN
nette," said the tailor; "here's the key /;
you'll find the box on the board just be-
meath the window. But mind you don't
open it, or you'll meet with a misfortune" :"
"No, no, ease your mind upon that
score" said Jeanette. 81 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 even to look at it,
Presently she thought she heard something
inside it,-ycs, there it was again; a
regular whispering, tittering and what
queer clatter-what an odd noise it is
81 wonder whether | could see through
the keyhole;' so she took the key out
" Bother can't see anything-thc box
must be double. If | 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 fright
en- me that he said so. He's cunning
fellow, and does not want his secret to get
wind. It's all nonescncc what could
happen if | did just look into it? If
there is an animal inside, it can't eat me,
for it's not as big as | am"
Reasoning thus, Jeanette, who was
then in the middle of wide common,
gently opened the lid of the box about an
inch, but no sooner had she done this,
than whole host of little dwarfs-not
so large as your thimble, each with a lit
tie red cap upon his head--leapt to the
ground, and dancing around her, shrieked
at the top of their voices -
"Somc work, Mistress; some work !"
Jeanette stood quite stupefed, with
her mouth wide open, and looking at the
little men as they gambolled about her.
But at this demand for work, she thought
she was lost unless she could satisfy them
so she cried out: -
"Come little red-caps, pull up all the
brush-wood on the common"
So they Immediately began to pull up
all the tufts of broom, and in an instant
the whole common was cleared.
Some work, Mistress; some work p
they screamed again.
MAKE great pile of the tufts you
have pulled up" said Jeanette. And
|, they made heap as high as an oak.
"Some work, Mistress; some work y
said they again.
"Now my little men, said Jeanette
"climb up to the top of this pile and
jump down into the box" Whereupor
they clambered up to the top and leapt
lightly down.. AS soon as the last was
in the box, Jeannette double-locked it, anc
ran with it as hard as she could to thu
tailor.
So Nicholas took all the pieces of cloth
which he had cut, and stuck needles and
thread into them, and then opened his box
to give them to his dwarfs 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, Jeanette
, with my little men, that they have made
their hands so dirty?"
"Oh," she replied, "I am sorry to say
that in running back as fast as could, / lei
the box slip, and all the poor little men
| fell upon the grass, and when | picked
them up | forgot to wash their hands,
"Ah Jeanette" said the tailor, "you