The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-11-29

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locked inio her mothers cottage. Art
thou fylug sbou, 70 aad hay aud feathers
for our ueslf Nay. u will be built the
sooner, II thou vii. steadily ply Thy pick.
'rwoaid be long before thy bobbias
wonld bald d, answered Anton, With
smile which bad good deal Of contempt
mixed with its kin5llness, Cheer up,
Trix, thon shalt not long continue At that
beggars trade.
so having spoken be went upon bis
way, and lefl his sweetheart wondering
what be meant.
Bsl she could work while she wonder
cd and she did not forget 10 do 50. ln-
deed she was almost always at work.
she sot up with the sua-- sometimes be-
fore him, with the birds; and after be
bad gone down she lighted ber candle
aud sdli worked on. Patiently she stuck
her pins into her pattern, aud then piled
her dangling bobbins with deftness
which made fingers aud bobbins blend in
a simmer, like that Of the wings Of buzz
zlng bees. When awake, she scarcely
fever ceased from her labor except to per-
form her sacred duties, or 10 carry in the
product of her toll to the laceman's 10 the
nearest town.
My child, thou wilt have to eat hattea-
rauch, her mother said TO her. Thy
cheek ls pale aud pinched, thy eyes are
growing dun. Anton viii slight thee.
Nay, Beatrix answered, If need ar
senic to make me pleasing in his sight,
be may een leave me. | will not meddle
with such unholy things. lie must take
me just as the good God and honest toll
have made me.
But why dost thou labor so hard? ask.
ed the mother.
would fsin help TO keep the house,
replied her daughter.
Nay, quoth the mother, though 'Hs lit
tie that thy pillow earns thee, 1t well
pays thy clothes, and coffee and potatoes
would take something in my hands
besides my pillow, when 60 to sit down
in Anton's house, said Beatrix with a
blush.
II Yves little she saw of her lover at this
time, and when he did come to see her,
he behaved so strangely that in spite OF
his a1ectionste caresses, she could not
help suspecting sometimes that he wished
to take back his plighted troth. He look
ed with undisguised contempt on the
cottage and its furniture, its scanty food
and all its humble ways, and talked as if,
should Bcatrix become his bride, she
would be a beggar's daughter lifted to a
throne. And yet he was more shabbily
dressed than had been his wont, aud had
less money to spend; since now he very
seldom went down into the mines by day
Almost all day long he either slept OF
wandered over the mountains, chasing,
or pretending to chase, the bear, the cha
mois, and the lynx. Every night, little
before the clock strnck twelve, be went
abroad, but whittier be went no one
could tell. Her lovers strange behavior
oftentimes made Beatrix very sad
though none the slower for that reason
did her fingers ply the bobbins. Night
and morning beside her bed, and in the
church (to which Anton never came, }
she prayed the good God to hold her
lover in his shelteripg hand, for If he
were taking to murderous ways, or go
ing mad, and so they should be separated
for life, she thought that she would 60
mad also.
The fact is that Anton went every
night TO meet Kobold, aud wandered
with him 10 the bowels of the earth
When Anton was an industrious miner
Kobold had come TO him as be piled the
pick in lonely working, and scofled at
his simplicity for toiing so bard to carr
SO little.
Come with me tonight, the goblin
had said, and will show thee where the
land for many mile Is made of meta
which may be had for the trouble Of pick
ing it up. Mine 1t on the sly thyself, OF
make good bargain with others out Of
thy knowledge, as may best please thee
Mr.. Honest Miner.
Anton went, and beheld a sight whicl
made him eagerly inquire Of the tricksl
spriie how be could find bis way TO th'
spot again. But Kobold answered, Oh
this is nothing-eome to our trystinG
place tomorrow night, aud will show
the far greater wonders than these.
And Anton had gone, and night aftel
night be kept on going, similarly beguil'
ed, for Kobold kept bis promise ia show.
ing each night greater wonder thar
that Of the night before.
In this way, negleeting his business,
his friends, bis sweetheart, and bis God
Anton bad seen vast hidden stores Of al
kinds Of ores-sllver, tin, copper, anti
mony, bismuth, and who knows whai
besidesy and the more he saw The less 10.
clined TO work with bis own hands b.
was, the more esger to take bis own eAs'
And pleasure whilst the isexhanstibl'
treasury that had been revealed TO bin
should be worked for him by others
brsins and brswn.
show me gold, be said 10 kobold, tha
| may at once take Of il to CRAFTY my de
! sires, aud have means 10 hirs dfudges 4
work my mines. Show me gold, am
give me The elew to that and 81 the res
that thou hast shown me, ard | wi
trouble thee no more.
Come again 70 onr trysling place 70
morrow night, for The last time, answer
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