The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-05-10

ing, when he had got o drop too
much, he could keep his secret no
longer, and brought out the quern
and said: t ittfa .
"There, you see what has gotten
me all this wealth. and so he
made the quern grind out all kinds
of things. When bis brother saw
it he set his heart on having the
quern, add after deal Of coax
ing he got it; but he bad to pay
$500 for it, and his brother bar
gained to keep it till bay harvest.
for he thought if / keep it till
then l can make it grind meat and
drink that will last for years. So
you may fancy the quern didn't
grow rusty for want of work, and
when hay harvest came the brother
got it, but the other took care not
to teach him to handle it.
1t was evening when the rich
brother got the quern home, and
next morning he told his wife
to go out into the hay. field and
toss while the mowers cut the grass,
and he would stay at home and
get the dinner ready. So. when
dinner time drew near he put
the eQsern on the Kitchen table
and said: . ~
''Grind behring's and broth, and
grind them good and fast"
So the quern began to grind
behring's and broth; first the dishes
full, then the tubs full, and 90 on
till the kitchen floor was quite
covered. Then the man twisted
and twirled ct the Quern to get it
to stop. bat for al this twisting
and lingering the quern went on
grinding, and in q little while the
broth ross so high that the man
was like to drown. So he threw
open the kitchen door and ran into
the parlor; but it wasn't long be-
for the queEn had ground the par
lor full too, and il was only ut the
risk of his life that the man could
get hold of the latch of the house
door through the stream o. broth.
When he got the door open he
ran out and ret off down the road,
with the stream Of behring's and
broth ct his heels, roaring like q
waterfall over the whole farm.
Now, his old dame, who was in
the Geld. tossing hay, thought il
q long tims to dinner. and at last
she said: sA -sil sgi- 3
swell. though the master doesn't
call rs home we may as well 60:
maybe be finds it hard work to
boil the broth and will be glsd of
my help" e4ia'A nssa fsa sa-- ssn
The men we're willing enough,
90 they sauntered homeward; but
just ss they got little way up the
hill what should they meet but
behring's and broth. and bread, all
running, and dAshiug. and splash
ing together in a stream, and the
master himself running before
them for his life, and as be passed
them he bellowed out, "Wonld to
heaven each one Of You had q hun
dred throsts; but take care you're
not drowned IN the broth" ia d..i.
Away he went. as though the
evil one were at his heels, to his
brothers house, and begged him
for Gods sake to take back the
quern that instant; for, said he:
"If it grinds only one hour more
the whole parish will BE- swallowed
by behring's and broth"
But his brother wouldn't hear of
taking it back till the other brother
paid him down $500 more.
So tho poor brother got both
the money aud quern, and it wasn't
long before he set up . farmhouse
far finer than the one in which his
brother lived. and with the qnern
be ground so much gold that he
covered it with plapks Of gold; and
and ~ the farm lay by the seaside
the golden house cleaned and
and glistensd far away over the
yea. All who sailed by put ashore
to see the rich man in the golden
house, and to see the wonderful
quern, the fame of which spread
far and wide till there was nobody
who hadn't heard tep Of it.
So one day there came n skipper
who wanted to nee the quern, and
the first thing he asked wsa il it
could grind salt. -
Grind salt" asked the owner;
II should just think it could. 1t eau