Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-19
LYING FOR A WAGER.

it in the mill in which he should hap
pen to meet with man named BEARD
| less" The boy came to mill, but
there he found Beardless.
"God bless you, Beardless," said he.
"God bless you, too, my son." re-
piled the man.
Scan 1 grind my corn here?" asked
the boy.
"Why not 2" responded Beardless
"my corn will be soon ready, and you
can grind yours as long as you like"
But the boy recollected his fathers
advice, and left the mill and went to an
other. But Beardless took some corn
and hurried, by o shorter way, to the
mill toward which the boy had gone,
and reached there before him, and put
some of his corn into the mill to be
ground.
When the boy arrived, he was greatly
surprised to find Beardless there, and so
he went away from this and approached
| third mill. But Beardless hurried by
short cut, and reached this mills also
before the boy, and gave some of his
corn to be ground.
| He did the same at fourth mill, so
the boy got tired, and, thinking he
should find Beardless in every mill, put
down his sack, and resolved to grind In
this mill, although Beardless was there.
When the boys corn came to be
ground, Beardless said to him:
Hearken, my son. Let us make a
cake of your -four"
The boy was thinking all the time of
his fathers words, but he could not help
himself. So he said
every good, we will make one."
Beardless got up and began to mix
the -four with water, which the boy
brought him, and he kept mixing till all
the corn was ground, and all the -four
made into a very large loaf. Then they
made fire, put the bread to bake, and
when it was baked, took it and placed
it against wall. Then Beardless said !:
"My son, listen to me. If we we're
to divide the loaf between us, it would
not be enough for either of us, so let us
tell each ether some lies, and whoever
tells the greatest lie shall have the
whole loaf for himself"
The boy thought, "I cannot now
draw back, so may as well do my
best and go on" So he said aloud to
Beardless
every well but you must begin"
Then Beardless told many different
lies, and when he got quite tired of ly-
ing, the boy said to him:
"Eh my dear Beardless, if that is
all you know, it is not much. Only lis
ten, and have patience little, whilst 1
tell you a real truth. In my young
days, when 1 was an old man, we had
very many beehives, and it was my bus
mess every morning to count them.
Now, I always counted the bees easily
enough, but I never could count the
beehives.
lone morning, whilst counting the
bees, / saw that the best bee was mis-
sing, so 1 put saddle on the cock and
mounted, and started in search of my
bee. traced it to the sea-shore, and
saw that it had gone over the sea, so
followed it. When I got over, saw
that man had caught my bee, and was
blowing field with it, in which he was
about to SOW millet. l called to him !:
"That is my bee How did you get
it %
Ana the man Sald:
Well, brother, if it is yours, take
it.
"And he gave me back my bee, and
also q sack full OF millet. Then put
the sack on my back, and moved the
saddle from the cock to the bee. Then
1 mounted it, and led the cock behind
me, that he might rest little.
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how one of the strings of the sack broke,
and all the millet fell into the water.
"When had got over it was already
night, so / dismonnted, and let the bee
loose to Craze. The cock 1 fastened
near me, and gave him some hay after
that l lay down to sleep. When /
awoke In the morning, l found the
wolves had killed my bee and eaten it
up; and the honey was lying all over
the valley ankle-deep, and on the hills
it lay knee-deep.
"Then / began to think in what I
could gather up all the honey. 1 re-
membered 1 had little ak by me, so I
went into the forest to try to kill some
beast, in order to make sack from its
skin. In the forest I saw two deer
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with my little ak, and caught them
both.
"From the two deer / drew three
skins and made three bags, wherein I
gathered up all the honey. 1 put the
sacks full of honey on the cocks back,
and fastened home. When 1 reached
home, l found that my father had just
been born, and they sent me to heaven
to get some holy water.
"Whilst / was thinking how should
go to heaven, remembered the millet
which had fallen into the sea. When 1
reached the sea, found the millet had
grown up quite to heaven, so I climbed
it and reached the sky. And on getting
into heaven, / saw the millet was quite
ripe, and that one whom / met there
had reaped it, and had already made a
loaf from it, and had broken some
pieces into warm milk, which he was
eating. ! greeted him, saying:
"sGod help you'll and he answered,
God help thee also z and then he gave
me holy water, and returned.
"But found that meanwhile there
had been a great rain 40 that the sea