Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-06-15

q aowery bank, and putting on a solemn
oppression. said in q hollow voice
"Kattie, if you don't let me go, ! shall
| plunge you into molten birthstone =
"0h p replied she with iaPressen1eat
81 fear DO pain so long as am with
you" and she laid her bead on his breast
"Abem p Moloch looked vacantly at
the landscape. Katie !" he resumed
az a brilliant idea entered his head, and
iIiunined bis c~ountenance with a momen-
tary CLEAN of CHASTITY joy: Katie, /
am SO rich | will give you q mountain
of solid gold, if you will only let me CO.
What leave you for filthy lucre -?
Never, never, never p and she buried her
head in his breast. -,
Heres a pretty kettle Of fish" said
the spirit what is to be done now =
lie rose and wandered despairingiy
over d desolate moor, which lay stretched
before him.
Presently, staggering under his load,
be came upon q young shepherd, ~ 2
sheepskin with ali its wool upon it. The
evil spirit resumed bis former human form
ana The shepherd was quite Ignorant Of
who he was.
"Wby, my good Sir, whom are you
carrying Z, asked the shepherd II per.
plexity-
"Ah, good friend, / scarcely know !
why, look you | was walking peacefully
along my way, without thinking Of any
thing ID particular, when, with a hop,
skip and Jump, this woman fastened her
self to my neck, and will on no account
let me go. want to carry her to the
next village, and there obtain my Hbera-
ton but I am scarcely in condition to
do so, my knees are ~shivering under me-
Come now" said the compassionate
peasant, 81 will help you; but | cannot
carry her for long, as l have my sheep to
attend to half the way-will that do ?"
"Ah [ shall be thankful p
"Now. then, you hang yourself to
me T. cried the shepherd, addressing
Katie.
The woman looked round, observed
that the shepherd was infinitely preferable
to Moloch he was good-looking and
young, She let go her hold on the devil
and, click,-she was fast as q spring col
lar around the shepherds neck.
The man now had quite enough to car
ry, what with Katie, and what with his
immense sheepskin dress and in q very
short while he was tired, and strove to
disengage himself from his ~encurnbrance.
In vain +! Katie would not listen to his
circumstances, and the more be struggled
the tighter she cluDg.
Presently be came near a pool. Oh II
he could but cast her in But how ? No
BARN trying-but it must be done very
cautiously-v-e-r-y gently. Hist he has
d arm out, and Katie il none
wiser. Hist be has slipped tie other
arm out, and Katie has not observed It.
Now then lie slides big hand steaIthily
up bis breast, and unbuttons the collar.
lie has undone one button, two, three-a
bob Of the head, q splash, and Katie and
the sheepskin are il the pond. She sinks
she rises and her expiring eyes rest
upon the shepherd and the evil spirit
dancing in ecstacies upon the bank.
my best OF friends I" exclaimed Mol.
)ch, enthusiastically, you have LAID me
lnder lasting obligations /; you have i'm
posed upon me a debt of gratitude which
can never adequately discharge, But
or you, might have had Katie hanging
around my neck through eternity [
never have been able to shake that
woman off and never" continued the
Ipirit musingly, %"never is a very long
Now, look you here, shepherd :. /
an In fewer words than ! could ex
'ress it. tho spirit had described his ma
ure to the young man =" Well, and
icing what | am, it lies in my power to
epay you, 10 my humble way, for what
GU have done. [ will forthwith proceed
o the next town, and I will enter into
nd possess the Chancellor. AS soon as
IL doctors and exorcists have failed to
rec the Chancellor from me, do YOU 90 to
he town and offer, for the recompense of
bags Of dollars, to liberate the Chan
ellor from the evil spirit that torrents
i'm. Then come up to the bedside. saw
Hocus pocus 7 and | will fly away out Of
he window and enter into and possess
Prime Minister. When all other
leans Of cure have failed, do you volun-
Ger, at the price Of sacks Of gold pieces.
Q Tree the Prime Minister. Come to him,
az 81 before, Hocus pocus and I will
y from him through the window, and
ossess the King. And now, I warn you,