The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-01-01
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e far from the road. Then leaving him to see
: his brother, who was in vain pursuit OF tn
e horse, he ran TO where the swine lay,and selz
: ing hold Of her, placed her upon his horse an
9 Carl, her off As soon as he got home he tie
her by the leg to the hand>mill which stood il
, the middle of the kitchen round which he strew
ed quantity of rye. Forthwith the swine tel
to eating the rye, and, by moving round, set tn
mill to grinding Tim then flung himself upol
his bed, and without any care resigned himsel
to sleep.
In the meanwhile, the two thieves met eacl
other.
One said where's the horse3'
/ The other answered that he had never caugh
a glimpse of it.
i Then why did you call me to help unite 1t 7
'You are mad = replied the other Il neve
spoke word
/ Well then said his Gomrade, 1T is very plan
that fellow Tim has played US trick. Let III
90 and see whether the swine is where We lef
her. --@
But, after seeking her for long time in vain
they concluded that their brosher-ln-law has
carried her with him back home, whereupon they
set off for Tins house with all speed,
| On arriving at the court yard, they went 80
the kitchen, and one of them said
! Brother, am afraid we have LOST our TWO
humid ed roubles. The old beldame, linn 9 mo-
ther, ia awake and up Don't you hear her get
ting the mill in order? She is going to grind
However, will 90 to my sister, and ask her, aa
did before where the swine is hid perhaps II
is not in the Kitchen
So he climbed upon the root, as ne had done
before, and, waking his sister, SAID
Wife, where is the swine !!
You must be asleep she replied have you
forgotten tina. she tied to the hand-mlll IN the
kitchen? q
The thief, having learnt where the swine was,
ran to the kitchen, aud, quickly selzing MS
booty, FASTENED away with his brother say
ing:
Master Tim has taught us lesson he will
not deceive us again
Shortly after this Tim awoke, and jumping
up, ran TO look for the swine. But on entering
the kitchen he perceived that she had been stoi-
en- second time. Nothing now remained for
him to do but to run and overtake the thieves,
and discover some means of deceiving them
again He ran without any burden on his BACK,
and besides was all the fresher for having rest
ed, consequently he had no difficulty IN over
tax ing the tired thieves, who were carrying the
swine between them. He went very softly De-
hind them until they came to the WOOD.
AS soon as they entered it, one of the thieves
said TO his comrade
Let us rest awhile here
But the other replied
Ne, brother; if Tim overtakes US here, ne
will trick US again by some means or other. But
some way further on you remember there is an
empty cottage, near the road there we can rest
without Danger
Very good said his Gonna de, I'VE will stop
there.
Tim, hearing what they said, turned aside,
and, getting before them. daubed his face with
clay then, running as fast as he could to the
cottage, he sat down within the ruined petsch,
holding in his hand brick. He had not wait
ed more than five minutes when they entered
the cottage and cast the swine down upon the
floor. aH.
Now brother, said one, we have nearly fin
ished the business, let us smoke pipe OF tobac>
CO.
Capital !! replied the other, taking out his
Finland steel but, though he struck and struck,
he could not make the finder take light. Here's
a pretty affair said he; the finder got damp
as | ran amidst the dew of the wood, endeavor-
ing to oyertake that precious rascal Tim
Go TO the mouth of the petsch, said the
other perhaps a spark will take hold Of the
soot.'
The other went up to the petsch and began
AGAIN TO strike. In the meantime Tim, looking
full at him, CRASHED his teeth violently The
thief, hearing something gnashing, struck hard
er than before and, looking into the petsch oy
the light of the sparks, instantly fell to the
ground for, seeing the face OF Tim, he took
him for the devil, and was so terrified that ne
could only utter, with q broken voice:
oh, brother the devil the devil!
Tbereupon, Tim knocked violently upon the
netSeh, aud hurled the brick at the other thief,
who made for the door, but, striking his fore
head against the Intel, he fell senseless. Tim
then seizing one of their sticks, began to bella
Dor his brothers >in-law so Justify that they soon
recovered their recollection and betook them~
selves to fight Their legs tr"mbled so with
I the fright they were in that they stumbled more
than once; but Tim assisted them on their way
nv naItinp them with bricks. Having driven
them off. he took the swine and carried her
home. where he arrived just as the day was be-
ginning to break
The first word which the thieves said on re-
covering their breath was about the wager with
their brother-in-liw.
/ Now said they, as the devil has run away
with the swine, Tim cannot produce her'so we
will force him to come and live with us again
Thereupon they set OIL straight Tor me mousse
because it was already getting light but on
ltba;r arrival they found that they had lost their
wager. aud that it Was not the devil who had
routed them in the deserted cottage, but their
| brOtherNin-law.
oh, YOU precious rascal ? said they, you
nearly killed us with terror ?
There's no help, brothers, he replied, you
we're thinking Of taking two hundred roubef
from me, but now YOU have to pay them tc
me-
After some demur, he received the money
from Them, and began to live in highly re-
spectacle manner .... ... .