The Morning herald., 1878-10-11
here, for It would Be hfhnWdisse il YOU to leave

here, for IT would be dnswiss IL you to leave
your house unprotected; and besides, the
cattle and sheep must have their food 1t
she proper time" G 70 c 5 491j ed3 's,9 10 Soit
4 az Never mind the boasts, p answered. ths
farmer, DO not be SO rash Is TO remain IN
the house this night, for whenever wehaye'
returned frUm church on this night, We
|hayer always found every living thing in the
house dead, with all its bones broken" 4
I But the man Was not to be persuaded, ss
he considered all these fears beneath his
notice !, 90 the farmer and the, rest Of the
servants went away and left him behind,
alone IN the house. Ibid iiig 10 5fg g' I'D
As soon as lie was by himself, he began
TO consider how TO guard against anything
that might occur, for dread had stolen
pyer him, in spite, Of bis courage, that
bomething strange was,about to take place!
Atslast he Thought that the best thing to do
was, first Of all tolight up the family room,
and then to fDd some place in which to
hide himself. As soon as he had lighted
an the candles, he moved tive planks, out Of
the wainscot at the end Of the, room, and,
creeding into the space between it and the
wall, restored the planks to their, places, 80
thst he could see plainly into the room, and
yet avoid being himself discovered.
4 He had scarcely finished concealing him
eslf, when two fierce and strange-looking
men entered the room and began looking
about. = :, f.@2.Tr'If . IT, '.4,r
| One Of them said, "1 smell q human
being" ~, f[r,.,,.,,S1t a. a,yi n, 1lJ 4
"No," replied the other, "there is no
human being here" .lu,sT2H nlloj|
| Then they took candle and continued
their search, until they found the mans
dog. asleep under one of the beds. They
took IT up, and, having dashed It on the
ground until every bone in its gbody was
broken, hurled 1t from them. When the
IMAM servant saw this, he congratulated
himself on not having fallen into their
hands. .tt r")'' ~ % --.1' i,
Suddenly the room was filed with people,
who were laden with tables and all kinds.
Eof table furniture, silver, cloths, and all,
which they spread out, and having done 90,
sat down to rich supper, which they had
also brought with them. They feasted
lnoislly, and spent the remainder of the
might, in drinking and dancing Twotof
them were appointed to keep guard, in order
ito give the company due warning of the
approach of either Of anybody, or of the
day. Three times they went out, always
returning with the news that they saw
neither the approach of any human being,
nor yet the break of day. .--tt@ = aasa 4
But when the man servant suspected the
night to be pretty far spent, he jumped
from his place Of concealment into the room,
and clashing the two planks together With
as much noise as he could make, shouted
like a madman: .r4a. 70 l41 u g..
"Tbe,day the day the day p '9@
On these words the whole company rose
scared from their seats, and rushed head.
ing cut, leaving behind them not only their
tables and sllver-dishes, but even the very
clothes they had taken of for ease in dane
ing, In the hurry of flight many were
wounded and trodden under foot, while the
rest ran into the darkness, the man-ser-
want after them, clapping the planks to-
gether, and shrieking, "The, day the day !
the dayW until they come to large lake,
into which the whole party plunged head
long and disappeared . @oL II D. o
From this, the man knew them to be
water-elves. ga I,. s.
Then he returned home, gathered the
corpses OF the elves who had been killed,
in the flight, killed the wounded ones and
making good heap Of them. all, burned
them. When he had finished this task. he
cleaned up the house and took possession
of all the treasures the elves had left be-
hindtthem,l f.rre ,y:r|
On the farmers return, his servant told
him sll that had occurred, and showed him
the spoils., The farmer praised him for q
brave fellew, and congratulated him on
having escaped with his life. The man
gave him half the treasures of the elves,
and ever after prospersd exceedingly.
This was the last visit the water elves
ever paid to that house.