The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04

who had three oxen. One of these he
was to take to town to sell, and the rob-
bers had heard what he was going to do,
so they said to the youth, thatif he were
good to steal the OK from the man by the
way without his knowing 1t, and with
out doing any harm, they would give
him leave to be their serving man.
Well the youth set off, and took with
him pretty shoe, with silver buckle
on 1t, which lay about the house and he
put the shoe in the road along which the
man was going with the OK; and when
he had done that, he went into the wood
and hid himself under bush. So when
the man came by he saw the shoe at
once.
"That's nice shoe,' said he. "If
only had the fellow to it., I'D take 1t
home with me, and perhaps I'd put my
old dame into good humor for once.
For you must know that he had an old
wife, SO cross and snappish that it was
not long between each time that che
boxed his ears. But then he bethought
him that he could do nothing with the
odd shoe unless he had the fellow to It ;
so he went on his way and let the shoe
lie on the road.
Then the youth took up the shoe, and
made all the haste he could to get before
the man by short cut through the wood
and laid it down before him in the road
again.
When the man came along with his
OK he got quite angry with himself for
being 80 stupid as to leave the fellow to
the shoe lying In the road instead of
taking it with him; SO he tied the OK to
the fence, and said to himself:
"I may just as well run back and pick
up the other, and then I'll have pair
of good shoes for my old dame, and
so, perhaps I'll get a kind word from
her for once"
So he set off, and hunted and hunted
up and down for the shoe, but no shoe
did he find; and at length he had to go
back with the shoe he had. But, mean
while the youth had taken the OK and
gone off with it; and when the man
came and saw that his OK was gone, he
began to bewail, for he was afraid that
his old dame would kill him outright
when she came to know that the OK was
lost. But just then it came across his
mind that he would go home and take
the second OK and drive 1t to the town,
and not let the old dame know anything
about the matter. So he did this, and
went home and took the OK without his
DANES knowing it, and set off with it to
the town. But the robbers knew all
about it, and they said to the youth if he
could get this OK too, without the man
knowing it, and without his doing him
any harm, he should be as good as any
of them. If that were all, said the
youth, he did not think 1t very hard
thing.
This time he took with him rope, and
hung himself up under the armpits to a
tree right in the mans way. So the man
came along with his OK, and when he
saw such sight hanging there he began
to feel little queer.
wei, bdlu ue, WuateVer neAVy
thoughts you had when you hanged
yourself up there,it can't be helped you
may hang for what 1 carel 1 can't
breathe life into you again - and with
that he went on his way with his OK
Down slipped the youth from the tree,
and ran by footpath and got before the
man, and hung himself up right In his
way again.
Bless me' said the man, were
you really so heavy at heart that you
hanged yourself up there-or is it only
a piece of witchcraft that / sec before
meS Ay, ay you may hang for all 1
care, whether you are ghost or what
ever you are" So he passed on with
his OK.
Now the youth did just what he had
done twice before; he jumped down
from the tree, ran through the wood, by a
footpath, and hung himself up right in
the mans way again. But when the
man saw the sight for the third time, he
said to himself:
"Well this is an ugly business Is
1t likely now that they should have been
SO heavy at heart as to hang themselves,
all these three? Mol l cannot think
that 1t is anything else than piece OF
witchcraft that see. But now I'llsoon
know for certain If the other two are
still hanging there, it must be really SO