Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-08-20
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genial So tue young laborer pulled off
his cap and asked for nights shelter.
The landlord Of the Crown looked at 5he
smart lad, in his dusty, ragged clothes,
from top to toe, and then kindly nodding,
said to him:
"Sit down here in this arbor; I dare
say there's bit of bread and cheese and
a jug OF beer to spare for we, and a truss
Of straw in the loft at night"
Whereuron he went into the house, and
sent out his daughter with the bread and
cheese and beer, and she sat down beside
the young man and asked him to tell her
of the foreign lands, and in return told
him all the village gossip, and how the
corn stood, and when the next dance at
the Grown would be-
Suddenly she rose, leaned toward the
stranger, and said:
"Pray tell me what those three leaves
are, sticking out of your waistcoat?"
The young man looked down and found
the twig, with the three leaves, which had
fallen upon him while he slept. 1t was
caught in the flap of his waistcoat. "a
1T must have fallen from the great
beech tree just outside the village,' he
replied II had nap under it." ssA
The girl listened attentively, waiting to
hear what he would say next When he
had ceased speaking she began to ques-
ton him narrowly, till she had ascertain
ed beyond doubt that he had really fall
len asleep under the great beech tree, and
that moreover, he knew nothing of the
wonderful power and properties attached
to the tree. For he was a sly dog, and
pretended to know nothing.
AS soon as she had done questioning,
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beer, and pressed him to drink, telling
dreamt, and what pity it was they had
never come true. hH 8N
Just then the shepherd came from the
field, driving his sheep through the vii
lage.
AS he passed the Crown Inn, he saw
the two Sitting in the arbor in earnest
said:
"Ah, yes, he'll be sure to tell you the
beautiful dream, though [ can get moth
ing out of him. And then he drove on
his sheep.
When the girl found, do what she
would she could not learn anything about
the dream, her curiosity knew no bounds,
and at last she could control herself no
longer, and asked him outright what he
had dreamt while sleeping under the
beech
Then the young man, who was mis-
chievous rogue, and in very high spirits
about his pleasant dream, with sly look
and a wink, said : @a
" All! | had most glorious dream,
which must come true; but [ dare not
tell you what it was"
But she worried and leased him so
that at last he drew his chair towards her,
and told herquite gravely: sa ree
dreamt [ should marry the daughter
of the landlord of the Crown Inn, and
that after a bit should become landlord
myselfp'' Ilsll ll.l N E
On hearing this the girl grew as white
as a lily and then as red as rose, and
then got up and walked back into the
house. Then after some little time she
came again, and asked if he had really
dTeamtit, and was quite in earnest.
To be sure, to be sure" said he; :" she
who appeared to me in the dream was
most certainly like your'
Then the girl went again into the house
and did not return. She walked straight
to her own room; and thoughts flowed
through her brain like water that run
meth apace. First one idea, then another
chased it away till back came the first
thoughts. There was no end to the con-
fusion? He knows nothing about the
tree she said to herself, he dreamt it,
and whether wish it or no, it will surely
cometO pass; there's no possibility of.
changing that" And with this event
to bed, and dreamt the whole night of the
young man. When she awoke the<next
she knew his face by heart, so
often had she seen it in her dreams during
the night. And he was very cookbook
ing fellow too. ~
The young man had slept soundly on
his bed Of straw. Dreaming Beech,
dream, and all he had said to the land
lords daughter were alike forgotten. He
stood at the door of the tap-room, and was
just shaking the landlords hand. and
wishing him s'good-bye," when the girl
entered. On seeing him ready to start, an
indescribable feeling came over her, and
she could not let him 60
"Father," she said, "the beer has not
yet been tapped, and the young man has
nothing to do; couldn't he stay day
longer, and earn his board and lodging,
and get something beside for the journey
home?"
The landlord had no objection to make
to this proposal, as he had just had his
morning draught, and was in the best of
hIlmOr
Somehow the beer-tapping progressed
but slowly. Then came bottling the wine,
and when the cask was empty and the
bottles full, then the girl thought he could
help in the field work, and when that was
finished there were so many things to be
done IN the garden that no one ever
thought Of before. So week after week
slipped by, and every night she dreamt
of him. In the evenings She sat with him
in the arbor by the house, and when he
told her how roughly strangers had treated
him, and what hardships he had gone
through, it was really very singular, but a
gnat or hair was sure to get into her
eyes, SO that she was obliged to wipe
them with the corner of her apron.
And so it came to pass that at the end
Of the year the young man was still in the
house. And then the floors were well
secured, and white sand and fir twigs
strewn in all the rooms, and the whole
village had holiday. It was the wed
ding day of the young journeyman and
the innkeeper's daughter; and everybody
rejoiced at it, except just the few who
sulked because they were jealous or pre-
tended to be So