Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1868-02-20

but all in vain the door was deaf, and
FInene asleep.
At daybreak his hands unclasped, and
he fell into the road head foremost
Without waiting to finish his errand, be
ran as if the Moors were after him. He
did not even turn round for fear tha
the door might be at his heels. Fortunate
ly for him, all were still asleep when he
reached the village, and he could hide
himself in bed without any one seeing
his deplorable plight. This was a great
piece Of good fortune for him, for be
was covered with whitewash from head
to foot, and so pale, haggard, and trem'
bling that he might have been taken fol
the ghost of a miller escaped from the
internal regions.
When Fineue opened her eyes she
saw by her bedside a tall man dressed IN
black, with velvet cap and sword. II
was the seneschal of the barony Of Ker-
yer. He stood with his arms folded
gazing at Finette in a way that chilled
the very marrow of her bones.
What is your name, vassal l'' said he,
in voice of thunder
"Finette, at your service, my lord, :" re.
piled she, trembling:
'Is this house and furniture yours 2"
eyes, my. lord, every thing, at your
service"
II mean that it shall be at my service, y
returned the seneschal, sternly. "Rise,
vassaI / do you the honor to marry you,
and to take yourself, your person, and
your property under my guardianship. "
MY" lord returned Finette, ''thIs is
much too great an honor for a poor girl
like me, a stranger, without friends or
kindred"
"Be silent. vassal ~ replied the seneso-
hal 81 am your lord and master;
have nothing to do with your advice
Sign this paper
My lord, said Finette, Il don't know
how to write"
"Do you think that / do, either 2" re.
turned the seneschaI, in voice THAI shook
the house. "Doyo take me for a clerk
a cross-thaI is the signature of gentle
men,"
He made large cross on the paper,
and handed the pentO FineIte.
Sign" said he. "If you are afraid 10
make cross, infdel, you pass death sen.
tence, and / shall lake on myself to
execute it. He drew his heavy sword
from the scabbard as he spoke, and threw
il on the table.
For her only answer FineIte leaped
out of the window and ran TO the stable
The seneschal pursued her thilher; bur
on attempting to enter, an unexpected
obstacle stopped him. The frightened
cow had backed at the sight of the young
girl, and stood in the doorway with FL
netIe clinging to her horns, and making
of her a sort of buckler.
''You shall not escape me, sorceress! I!
cried the senschal, and, with a grasp like
that of Hercules, be seized the COW by
the tail, and dragged her out of the
stable.
"Y4bracadabra!" cried Finette. "May
the cows tail hold on, villain, and may
you hold the cows tail till You have beer
around the world together"
"And behold, the COW darted of
like lightning, dragging The unhappy
seneschal after her. Nothing stopped
the inseparable comrades; they rushed
over mountains and valleys, crossed
marshes, rivers, quagmirss, and brakes,
glided over the seas without sinking
we're frozen in Siberia and scOrched in
Africa, climbed the Himalayas, descend
ed Mont Blanc, and atIength, after thirty
sin hours of journey, the like of which
had never been, both stopped out of breath
in the public square of the village. A
seneschal harnessed to a cows tail is a
sight not to be seen every day and all
the peasants in the neighborhood crowded
together 10 wonder at the spectacle. But,
torn as be was By ;he Cactuses Of Tar
tary, the seneschaI had lost nothing of
his haughly air. With a threatening
gesture he dispersed the rabble, and limp.
ed TO his house to taste the repose Of
which he began 10 feel the need.
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