The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-05-02

Before the castle of Grun:ngen, upon
the, Bode, one clear summer evening,
the bishop Henry Of EIalbcrstadt was
seated with a foreign prcl,tc who had
been his guest for month. J he possct
drink stood before them in two mighty
hagons. They had been discoursiu;
FROM ten o'clock in the morning, VIII en-
they set down to dinner, about the huge
wine tun which bishop on the Rhine
had just got constructed, and were
agreed in the opinion that it became
'verys ecclesiastical prince, who would
confer becoming splendor on his court
to possc IS a similar tun The affair was
quite settled by both of them, cxccpt-as
to its execution; and their c,nvcrs,ti,n
began now to be interrupted by yawns,
and to flag OH in mono >ylablcs
1t CHANGED, as good fortune would
have it that the shepard Conrad passed
by, driving his well washed flock across
the castle yard wherr hop Henry IL c |
to review them every evening. Il
salute you, my lord bishop!' Good
evening, Conrad; but where is Harm 2?
Conrad whistled, and beautiful large
ram bounded up first to the shepherd
and then 20 the bishop, who carressed
the animal aud Z, fed him with some
crumbs which he had kept for him
The bishop exchanged few words with
the shepherd md inquired IF his wed
ding day was at 'hathaa hathaar. Gonrad shrug,,
ged his shoulders and passed on with
his flock
Bishop Henry now extolled the beau
tiful ram wh ch he sdeclared he would
not part with for anything in the xurll,
aud then heturhed his eulogiu IL on the
good Conrad, who he Said, was honesty
itself. The foreign bishop laughed
aloud, Tor travel into distant countr cs
aud a frequent stay ut foreign courts /,
had filled him with universal dist rus,
of man. He aycrrcd that it w.s imp,s
| >iblc to finI Il thoroughly hnnest SrrvAn
and least all ut the court .ol biahup
They wcro all, :, ho said, co.nbin I'll t ;
| cheat their masters, and all more or l. SIS
rogues. Bishop Henry eagerly di-pu, ed
his nsselticn; aud extoled the virtues
Of the good people over whom he sway
cd The cr"sier, and a boye all, his shep,
derc Courad, who, as he said, had never
told lie or deceived auy cp.rson in his
whole Lifetime. las7aasa .gssya ,sir.,
'Nev,r told a lie! sgNeveri deceived
his MASTERY repeated the strang ger-bishop
in tone Of irauy. MOI answered
Bishop Henry; he never has; and never
will!' .'Nevcr!' reechoed the foreign
ecclesinstic, 'whatswill you bet2' After
several propositions, the two bishops
agreed upon these conditions: first, that
the stake should be an immense tun,
capable of containing one hundred an 1
fifty barrels Of vine and, secondly, that
Conrad without being made aware Of
the wager, should be put TO the trial
within three days. Thetwo dignitaries
then parted for the night, wright slad to
have found something to smuse them
Tor two or three days tocome..a ees4
/ The foreign bishop, before he went to
bed, held, as his custom, was. .. .consulGa-
tion with his confdant, Peter who was
nominaily his servent. and occasionally
his fool but in TACT possessed trucr
claim to the title ofihis privyA lunciInr,
than many others enj"ying g,higl,erq titles
aud places Peter hadB always some
shrcwd advice to give III every eniar.: zen
cy, whether lIe!nrorral Or spiritual. TTc
was accustomed to hear, to sc", and
sometimes cvcn. to think for. his sy,aSi e.
wi h"ut any one knowing it. Heaash d
done so .onathis OCCASION; but he scemnd
ittle9dsposedsto talk. tl,isgtevening, efor
the word '"yhr, which hadA escap n sh.t
masters LIS during the inver<atioh Just
narrated, had Pat him i'f dShrt5ner,
and it was .a,pls blythe aPrpmise Of q few
scarlet c"p,4iinnl.tt u the Sc event ,n: of tho Wa
ger being won, .t!at his master rot him
to opsppe hi. bps sstAlJ Atsr some satrica
remarks epAths ensornlYllnsl ls, cost ofa wine
tun which should contain one hundred
|s'nd' fifty ,barFtlse-!it atooeXhaust amore
than halfthe revenues Of IL ,bislropric >
lie Undertook to9Gdd o6t .aiowS d qpin
might be set for the new pRobthn1ix otRon
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