Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-21

quenee, quite happy and genial. SO
the young laborer pulled of his cap, aud
atked for a nights 'sshelier The landlord
Of the Crown looked at the smart lad, In
his dusty, ragged clothes, from top to
toe, and then kindly noddlng, said to
him:
'Sit down he'e In this arbor: dare
say there's bit of bread and cheese and
Jug Of beer to spare for ye. and truss
of straw In the loft ut night"
Whereupon he went into the house, and
sent out his daughter with the bread aud
cheese aud beer, and she Eat dlwn 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 Crown would be.
Suddenly she rose, leaned toward the
stranger aud SAID
Pray tell me what those three leaves
are, sticking out of your waistcoat7'
The young man looked down and found
the taig with the three leaves, which had
fallen upon him while he slept. II was
caught In the dap OF his waistcoat.
at must have fallen from the great
beech tree Just outs dc the village" he
replied. 81 had Il nap under it,"
The gill listened nuCntivcly, waiting
to hear what he would say next. When
he had ceased Speaking she began 10
question him narrowly, ill she had AZ.
certained beyond doubt that he had
really fallen asleep under the great beech
tree, and that moreover, he knew moth
ing Of the wonderful powerand properties
attached to the tree. For be was sly
dog, and pretended to know nothing.
AS soon as she had dane questioning,
she went and drew him another jug OF
beer, and pressed him to drink, telling
him all the lovely things she had herself
dreamt, and what pity it was they had
never come true.
Just then the shepherd came from the
field, driving his sheep through the VII
lage.
As be passed the Crown lun he saw the
two sitting in the arbor in earnest, con
verse, and, he stood still a moment, aud
said:
"Ah, yes hem be sure to tell you the
beautiful dre,m 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 nc
bounds, and at last the could control her
self no longer, and asked him outright
what he had drtamt whilst sleeping under
the beech.
Then the young, man, who was mis-
chicvOus rogue, anu IN very high spirits
about his pleasant dream, with sly lool
and wink, said;
"Ah had most glorious dream
which must come trne; but ! dare mol
tell you what 1t wa
But she worried and dtelsed him so that Al
last he drew his chair towards her, and
told her quite gravely;
81 dreamt should marry the saugh'
ter Of the landlord OF the Crown Inn, ant
that after u bit should become landlord
myself"
on hearingi this tie the girl grew al
white as lly and then as red as .
rose, and got up aud walked back inlt
the house. Theu after some little tint
she came agsin, aud asked il he haC
really dreamt II, and was quite In earnest
ITO be sure, to bv sure," said he ''sh'
who appear d to me in the dream wa
most certainly just like YOU"
Then the girl went again Into tn
house, and did not return. She walke'
straight up to her own roOm,and thought
flowed through her brain like water tina
runneth apace. First one idea, thel
another chased II away I'LL back cam
the first thoughts. There was 10 end Il
the confusion. "lIe knows nothing abou
the trer," she said TO herself, che dream
II, aud whether / ~!sh ii or no, IL vi
surely come to PISS; there's 10 posi-
bihy of changing dat" And with hi
she went to bed, aud dieamt the who'll
! fnk If la
awoke the next morning she knew hi
face by heart, 60 often had she sten IL il
her dreams during the night. And b.
was very good looking fellow too.
The young man had slept soundly OF
his bed Of straw. Dreaming Beech
dream, and all he had said TO the land
lords daughter were alike forl often. II
stood at the door of the tnpToom, aE
was lust shaking the landlords hand an
wishing him good bye" when the gin
entered. On SEEING him ready to start
an indescribable feeling came over hei
and she could not let him go.
"Father," sh0 said, "the beer has no
vet been tapped, aud the young man ha
nothing to do; couldn't he stay da
longer, and earn his board and lodging
and get something beside for his Journe
home 20
The landlord had no objection to max
to the proposal, as he had just bad hi
morning draught, and was In the best Q
humor.
Somehow the beer tapping progresse
: but slowly. Then came bottling th
wine, and when the cask was empty an
the bottles full, thin the girl thought b
could help In the fleld-work, and whe
J that was finished there were so man
things TO be done In the garden that n
one ever thought of before. SO wee
after week slipped by, and every nigl
she dreamt OF him. In the eyenini
she sat with him In the arbor 10y II
house, and when he told her bow roughl
strangers had treated him, and whI
hardships he had gone through, II wa
really very singular, but a guat or ha
was sure to get into her eyes, so that 81
was Obliged to wipe them with the co
ner of her apron.
: And so IL came to pass that at the er
I of the wear the young man was 'slnl
: the house. And then the floors were We
!, secured, and white sand aud fir twil
: strewn in all the rooms, and the VINO
- village had holiday. II was the we
!. ding day of the young journeyman al
!. the innkeeper's daughters and everybol
. / rioiced at IL, except just the few wi
sulked because they were Jealous or pi
a tended to be so.
: Not long after, the landlord of 4
o Crown Inn was decidedly once more in
3 happy frame Of mind. He had been ef
I, ing and drinking to his hearts conien
= and sat In his armchair With his snu
"a box on hls knee. Long he slept al
at ias. when thew tried to awake hil
y they found that be was dead !
~ So the Young journeyman became,l Ian
lord of the Crown, as he said he won
=, in Joke. And indeed all that he b
y dreamt under the beech tire came trt
4. for soon he had two lovely children, o
ts of whom he probably took sometimes
4. bis knees and fed with sloon, aud p'
=, slbly blew upon the food when It v
y too hot. Perhaps too, the other boy r
- about the room with the carrot but
person who told me this tale, did
,, happen 10 mention the fstt, and ] frE
~ TO ask him about II. But 1t must ha
~ happened so because whatever Que drea
70 under the beech tree always did col
Ia true, TO the very letter.
ID One day about Ave wears later,
Young landlord, for such he now WI
2, sitting 10 the tap-room, when his "
4. ran IN aud said 10 him
d, "Only fancy yesterday at noon on q
1d our mowers fell asleep under The Dres
ing Beech, without knoWiLg II, and vi
AZ do you think he dreamt ! Why, that
Nv was immensely rchl and only think "
II was Caspar, old Caspar, who is hi
ed wiited, and everybody pilirs and ke
no onlV for charity, What on earth will