Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1879-03-22

l SAT nOur alttI HOuI waNnS "'A"
watching, without SO much as two
stickstolaytogetler unaertAe Christ
mas bgose."i l,,sR .aon,ii ~ 4
sob Y said, the man, II could not
pet back before, for I had to go q lon
way, first for one thing and then for
another, but now ' you shall see what
you shall see.'il-t n4di gtp.1ts
!, Sd lie put the 4uerh on the table
and babe II first grind out lights, then
d table cloth, then meat, then ale, and
40 ON till they had got everything that
wis nice for Christmas fare! He had
only to speak the word, and the qu|ernl
ground out what lie wanted. The
old dame stood by blessing her stars,
and kept on asking where he had got
this wonderful quern, but he wouldn't
tell her. as.I uai!lf - A
| s.It's all one where / got it; you
see the quernis a good one, and the
mill stream never freezes, that's
enough. qaqqg aid - 1
So he ground meat and drink and
dainies enough to last till Twelfth
EDay, and on the third day he asked
=
| his, friends and kin to his house apd
gave a great feast. Now, when his
|brotherlsa all that was onfthe table,
and alfthat was behind III the larder,
he grew spitefal and wild, for he
:. couldn't bear that his brother should
have anything" i2aiet 9- 'it'@ ~ .
"'Twas only on Christmas Eve,"I
J he said ia, the rest, che was in such
straits that he came and asked for
}. a morsel of food in .Gsa's, name, and
now he gives feast Us 4 he were
Count or King )" and he turned to his
brother and said: !
"But whence, in hell's name, have
you got all this Wealth." 90 o'p
4 nFrom behind the door," answered
the owner Of the quern, tor he didn't
i care to let the cat out Of the bag. But
later in the evening, when he had got
a drop too much, he could keep his
secret no longer, and brought out the
quern and, said: -, ~
'"fliere, You see What has gotten
me all this wealth." and so he made
the lqu fern grind all kinds Of things.
!, When his brother saw it he set his
$ heart on having the quern, and after
: a deal of coaxing he got it; but he
b had to pay $500 for it, and his brother
It bargained to keep it till hay harvest,
0 for he thought, if l keep i till then |
! can make it grind meat and drink
It that will lest for years. So you may
n fancy the quern didn't grow rusty fol-
y want of work, and when hay harvest
IS came the brother got, it but the Other
took care not to teach him to ham
o die it. IA fafz.-.
/ twas evening Yhen the rich brother
got the querh home, and next morning
d he told his wife to go out into the hay
field and toss while the mowers Gu
10 the grass, and he would stay at hone
o and get the dinner ready. So, wllel
dinner time drew near he put TIN
10 quern Oh the kitchen table and said
:, "Grind behring's and broth, ant
- grind them good and FAST
!. So the quern began to grind her
," rings and broth; first the dishes full
then the tubs full, and so on till tn
70 kitchen floor was quite covered. The
=, the man twisted and twirled at til
~ quem to get it to stop, but for all thl
~ twisting and lingering the quern wen
on grinding, and in q little while tn
- broth rose SO high that the man wa
- like to drown. So he threw open tn
-, kitchen door and ran into the parlo1
but it wasn't long before the qaer
had ground the parlor full too, and
ny was only at the risk Of his life th'
nc the man could get hold Of the latch
the house door through the stream
lor broth. When he got the door ope
OIL he ran out and set off down the rOa'
lor with the stream of herrings and brot
rec at his heels, roaring like waterfa
!" over the whole farm.
y" Now, his old dame, who was in tt
'el field, tossing hay, thought it a lor
10 time to dinner, and at last she said
hd "Well, though the master doesr
= call us home we may as well 90 m;
'ed be he finds it hard work to boil Il
no broth and will be glad Of my help"
us Fs The men were willing enough,
~ they sauntered homewards; but ju
' '.,' as they got little way up the h
what should they meet but herrin
, and broth, and bread, all runnin
~, ~, and daslling, and splashing togetl
' in stream, and the. master hims
running before them for his life, n
nus as he passed them he bawled o.
Ihls ''WOuld to heaven each of you ha(
out hundred throats but take care you
on not drowned in the BROTH
GU; Away he went, as though the e
Ir 1t one were nj his heels. tn his hrothp