Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-03-13
Written for the Rocky Mountain Husbandman
BELLE ERETON.
BY S. A. NJ. MOSS.
(COncluded.)

Concluded
When a maid is fair she look not for woo.
ers, and so it was with Belle Breton. for the
doors We're hardly barred against the fourth
when the fifth baron, in his search tor
knowledge and adventure, penetrated to
the valley.
81 have heard" said he. of the maid
whose hair is like tangled sunbeams. and |
have come to win her to Tighten and bright.
en- my CASTLE"
But the maid with the hair nike sunbeams
told him she was not one to he charmed at
a word or won in a day, whereupon the
brave baron said that "no maid would re-
fuse him unless she had first refused a better
man, and that she who preferred to let the
beauty that would adorn a palace remain
hidden in a cottage deserved the commits
seration of all mankind.
The wheels Of time rolled on and Belle
Breton. with neither frown nor wrinkle on
her fair face at thought of her lowly lot.
still spun at her wheel, and her beautiful
hair, %sheen-like, fell about her, when the
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the wood, bearing in his hand his shoes and
in his heart the firm purpose of winning tor
his wife the fairest peasant ma1d that ever
yet lived in the valley.
Introducing himself and his EMISSION as
became q titled gentleman, he spoke of his
broad lands and territory which, be said,
reached even to the distant sea. So far back
as his illustrious line could be traced no
spendthrift had ever succeeded to the family
honors. Would not she, the fairest maid in
all Breton, one who must be well skilled in
the art OF economy, would not she bring
glory TO their time-honored name by uniting
her fortunes with his.
But the fair maiden answered him, "No,"
n the bells never rang for his wedding,
and at his death all his fair lands went to
distant kinsmen.
Still each night burned the light in the
loftiest window Of the castle of baron Korr.
and the villagers, viewing its brightness
from afar, marveled at it, and wondered for
what purpose it burned. Few, if any of
them, knew the mysteries of tie human
heart, or knowing, failed to apply the
knowledge rightly, and the light renamed
8 thing for conjecture-a earth-star in black
est night.
The world. now so full of beautiful oddi-
Ties, OF strange peculiarities and Singular
beliefs, was filled even more with beautiful
and strange in the days of which / write.
Then fairies dwelt unmolested in the cool
green forests. ALI the. caverns were Moo
pied with beings adapted to such places OF
abode, and every morning at the approach
the sun the maids of the mist gathered
mp their light robes and went over the
All people were simple in their
pursuits, frugal in their habits, and strong
in their beliefs of goodsand evil spirits. will
'o-the-wisps, ghosts, hob-gobhlins. and
What marvel then that they be-
l'eved implicitly in the Green Huntsman.
who, as the story went. had been a, prince,
beloved of a peasant maid? Whether or
not lie had returned her affection and there
py FED the flame Of love, was never revealed.
lt was known only that she hada died, and ,
nat her mother, actuated by a spirit OF re-
had studied witchcraft,. and had
earned to work a charm by which she
hanged the. prince into. an. eagle. and, it