The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-11-16

the pot was filled and the pooka lying snug
and sausy before the FIRE.
''Ah, then, sirl'' says he, at last, pick
ing up courage. If it isn't taking liber-
tv. might ask you who you are. and whv
YOU are 50 kind as to do half DAYS work
for the girls every night"
No liberty az all, says the pooLa.
Eth tell you, and welcome. I was a
servant here in the time of Squire Rs
father and was the LATEST rogue that ever
was clothed and fed, and done nothing for
it at all. When my time came for the other
world, this is the punishment was laid on
me-to come here and do ali this labor ev-
cry night, and then 90 out in the cold. 1t
isn't so bad In the fine weather; but if YOU
only knew what it is to stand with your
head between your legs, facing the storm,
from midnight to sunrise on bleak winter
night" And could we do anything for
your comfort, my poor fellow?' says the
boy. "Musha, | don't know" says the
pooka; but think a good quilted frieze
coat would help to keep the life in me
them long nights. why, then, in throth.
we'd be the ungratefulest people in the
world, if we didn't feel for you
TO make a long story short, the next
night but two the boy was there again, and
if he didn't delight the poor pooka, holding
up a fine, warm coat before him, it's n,
matter Betune the pooka and the man,
his legs were got into the four legs of it,
and it was buttoned down his breast AID
his belly, and he was SO pleased with it lie
walked up to the glass to see how he looked
well, says he, Its long lane that has
no turning. | am much obliged to yourself
and your fellow servants. You have made
me happy at last; good night to you
So he was walking out, but the other
cried, 'Och sure you're going too soon;
what about the washing and sweeping?'
''Ah you may tell the girls that they must
now get their turn my punishment was to
last till | was thought worthy of reward
fol the way 1 had done MY duty. You'll
see pe no more And no more they did
and right sorry they were for being in such
haste to reward the ungrateful pooka.
MIR. Kennedy says no other tale was told
him so often during his country experience,
as this Of
TIE CORPSE WATCHERS.
There was oEce poor woman that had
three daughters, and one day the eldest
said, Mother, go bake my cake and kill NY
cock, till | 20 seek my fortune. 50 she
did, and when all was ready, says her moth
err to her, Which will You have-half Of
these with my blessing, or the whole with
my curse 2" Curse or no curse, the whole
is little enough says she SO away she
set, and If her mother didn't give her her
curse, she didn't give her her blessing.
She walked and she walked till she was
tired and hungry, and then she sat down to
take her dinner. While she was eating ii Il
poor woman came up aud asked for bit.
The dickens bit you'll get from me-"
says she; 1t : all to little for mys IL and
the poor woman walked away very sorrow.
iul. At nishttail she got lodging at far
mer s and the woman OF the house told her
that she Il give her spade-tull Of gold and
a shovel-tull of silver ii she would only sit
up and watch with her sons corpse that
was waking In the next room. She said
she d do that; and 20 when the family were
IN bed she sat by the fire, and cast an eye
from time to time on the corpse that was
lying under the table.
All at once the dead man got up and
stood before her in his shroud and said.
All alone, fair maid. She gave him no
answer, and when he said it the third time,
he struck her with u switch, and she became
a gray flag.
AboN week after the second daughter
Went to seek her fortune, and she dldn
care for her mother blessing no more nor
her sister, and the very same thing happen
ed to her. She was left gray flag by the
side OF the other.
At last the youngest went off in search Of
the other two, and she took care to carry
her mother blessing with her. She Shar-
ed her dinner with the poor woman on the
road, and she told her she would watch
over her.
Well, she got lodging in the same place
as the others, and agreed to mind the corpse.
She sat up by the fire with the dog and cat,
and amused herself with ONE apples and
nuts the mistress gave her. She tho t 1t
pity the man under the tlble was a corpse,
he was so handsome.
But at last he got up, and says he ''Al
alone, fair maid p and she wasn't long
about an answer:
''All alone am not.
I've little dog Douse and Pussy my cat;
I've apples to roast, and nuts to crack,
And ak alone | am not"
"Ho, hor' says he, you're girl of
courage, though you wouldn't Lave enough
to follow me. | am now going to cross the
quaking bog, and go through the burning
forest | must then enter the Cave OF ter
rOr, and climb the hill OF glass, ana drop
from the top of it into the Dead Sea- I'm
follow you, says she, for engaged to
mind you" He thought to prevent her.
but she was as stiff as he was stout:
Out be sprang through the window, and
she followed him till they came to the
Green Hills and then says he:
open, open, Green Hills, and let the light of
the Green Hills through -
aye, says the girl, land let the fair maid too"
They opened, and the man and woman
passed through, and there they were, On
the edge of bog.
He trod lightly over the shaky bits of
moss and sod ; and while she was thinking
of how she d get across, the old beggar APP
poared to her, but much nicer dressed
touched her shoes with her stick, and the
soes spread a foot on each side. So she
easily got over the shaky marsh. The
burning wood was at the edge # the bog
and there the good fairy flung a damp,
thick cloak over her, and through the flames
she went, and hair Of her head was not
slnged. Then they passed through the dark
cavern of horrors, where she'd have heard
the most horrible yells, only that the fairy
stopped her ears with wax. She saw fri ght-
tul things with blue vapors round them,
and felt the sharp rocks, and the shiny
backs of frogs and snakes
" hen they got out Of the cavern they
were at the mountain of glass; and then
the fairy made her slippers so sticky with a
tan of ner rod that She folloVp1 the ,ounr