The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1866-1887, 1866-08-04

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solemn expression, said in hollow voice:
Katie, if you DO not LET go, shall plunge in
molten birthstone =
'.Ah ~ replied she with inpressment, Il fear no
pain so long as / am with you and she laid her
head on his breast.
"Ahem r Moloch looked vacantly at the land
scape. Katie he resumed, as brilliant idea
entered his head, and illuminated his countenance
with momenlary CLEAN of ghastly icy, Katie,
am rich: viii give you q mountain of solid
gold if you viii only let CO.
| What leave you for filthy lGere? Never, never,
never = and she buried her head in his breast.
Here's pretty kettle Of fish, said the spirit;
whats to be done row ~
He rose and wandered despairingly over desert
moor, which lay stretched before him.
Presently, staggering under his load he came up
on young shepherd. in a sheepskin with all its
wool upon it, The evil spirit assumed his former
human form and the shepherd was consequently
quite ignorant of who he
why, ny good sir. whom are you carrying ~
asked the shepherd in perplexity-
"Ah, good friend, l scarcely know ! why look
look you: l was walking peacefully along my wav
without thinking of anything in particular, when
with hop, skip and jump. this won an fastened
herself to my neck, and viii on no account let NE
go. I want to carry her to the next village. and
there obtain my liberation; but scarcely in
lit condition to do so. my knees shivering under
me-
Come now said the compassionate peasant, II
will help you; but cannot carry her for long,
have my sheep to attend to; half the way-will
( that suit your
/ "Ah shall be thankful T.
( Now then you hang yourself to me r cried the
j shepherd, addressing Katie.
! The woman looked round, observed that the
shepherd infinitely preferable TO the Moloch:
he was good looking and young. She let go her
hold on the Dell, and cck-she was fast as spring
collar round the shepherds neck
The man had now quite enough to carry, what
with Katie, and what with his immense sheepskin
dress; and in a very short time he was tired and
strove TO disengage himself from his incumbrance
In vain Katie would not listen to his remon
strances and the more he struggled the tighter she
clung.
Presently he came pool. Oh if he could
but cast her in But how? Could he manage to
slip ont of his sheepskin No harm tIying-but it
must be done very cautiously-very gently. Hist
he has slipped arm out, and Katie is none the
wiser. Hist! he has slipped the other arm out and
Hattie has not observed it. Now then. he slides
his hand stealthy up his breast and unbuttons the
collar. He has undone one button. two, three-a
bob of the head, splash and Katie and the
sheepskin are in the pond. She sinks, she rises,
and her expiring eyes rest upon the shepherd and
the evil spirit dancing in an eestacy Of delight on
the bank
my best of friends - exclaimed Moloch enthusi-
| astcally, "you have laid me under lasting obga-
ton; YOU have imposed upon me a debt Of graft
tude which l can never adequately discharge. But
for you l might have had Katie hanging around
my neck through eternity might never have been
able to shake that woman off and never contn
ued the spirit, musingly. never is very long
word. Now look here shepherd. l am" (In
fewer words than could express it, the spirit had
described his nature to the young man) "Well
aud being what am. it lies i'll my power to repay
you, in my poor way, for what you have done.
will forthwith proceed to the next town, and will
enter into and possess the Chancellor. As soon as
all the doctors and exorcsts have failed to free the
Chancellor from me- do you go to town and offer,
for the reeompense of two bags of dollars, to lber-
ate the Chancellor from the evil spirit which tor.
ments him. Then come up to the bedside. and say
" Hocus pocus - and will fly from him through
the window. and possess the prime Minister When
all other means of cure have failed, do yeu volun-
teer at the price of two sacks of gold pieces. to
free the prime Minister. Come to him. say as be-
FORE Hocus pocus!' aai viii fly away cut OF the
window, and enter into and possess the King
And now lwarn You, beware how you venture to
attempt to expel me from the body OF the King.
Should you, notwithstanding this caution, risk the
attempt. shall insanbly tear you in pieces, limb
from limb.
The shepherd expressed his acknow ledgraent in
the best and most appropriate terms of which he
was master. TIA. ta,'' said the Dell as he spread
his wings and few away.
ia, Ia, replied the shepherd gravely, looking
after him. shortly after this a rumor spread thro'
the country that the Chancellor was not quite-to
put it mildly-what he should be. 1t was whisper
ed aside that the Chancellor had been playing pretty
p7anks, and that it was asserted by professor of
medicine and Of theology that he possessed bt
bad spirit. All medicines allopathic and h1meo-
pathic, have failed to cure the Chancellor. The
clergy took him in hand and tried the last app roved
forms of exorcisn; but the Chancellor, or rather
the Chancellor's tenant, was proof agans: all &C.
clesiastical demonstrations,
The young shepherd now came to the town, and
proclaimed loudly his power to cure any one of di-
abolical possession. All other resources having
failed. the King determined to give the Shepherd a
try, and so ordered him 70 visit and prescribe for
the Chancellor. As soon as the shepherd entered
the room he that the condition of the highest
law ofiicerof the crown was critical He was kick
Ing his attendants abusing them in language hard
Is consistent with the dignity Of his position, and
foamins at the mouth.
The shepherd demanded as his fee for for curing
him two sacks of dollars, and they were readily
promised. He now approached the unhappy man,
whose oonvulsions became more terrible as he drew
near.
''Hocus poous = said the shepherd. ore rof,indo
and with a solemn face, at the same time making
various faacitul sjsns in the air with his hand
Away few the spirit, shiverins the panes OF glass
in the window into countless fragments on his way.
The shepherd received his fee and returned to his
cottage.
But was soon n0isei about that something had