The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20

! The little dog laughed 10 SEE the sport"
And ran away 10 make u report
I To the King OF the Bumblebees at his court,
"A And a. the s,, gsss5, and princes L also;
/ And the queen 80 fat, and the princes 30 slim,
J They laughed with the dog, and they laughed at
With ha ha, teheei hoi hot
"The dish ran away with tho spoon" it did,
And played tune ON the boi.er-lid,
While the tea-kette went to the cupboard and hid,
Along with the tOastlng-fork;
And the httls dog and the COW and the cat
Along with the cook In the kitchen sat,
While the bottle Of yeast il shot n rat
On the tp VI the nose with it's cork
why the Neon Ever Changes.
The following is simple folklore
story rs told by the youths and maidens
of Morayia:
In the olden times, evening after even
ing, as the sun went down the man in
the moon lighted his lantern and logged
along the sky until the sun arose and re-
ieved him. He did this the year
through, and there was never any new
moon, or any first aud last quarter, but
always the same kind of a moon. In
those days there lived in the castle of
Ragnit, as the Germans call it, a young
girl named Mereilis. Her face was like
roses and lilies, her form like the frs on
the famous mountain of Rombinus, and
her eyes were ~ blue as the sea. She
was gentle in her disposition, but it an
noyed her to think that nearly all the
year round she was obliged to go to bed
by the light of candle. The tiny win
dow of her chamber was deep in the
thick wall of the castle, and not moon.
beam ever found its way in there.
Mareilis had a cousin named Iurisch,
who was a coachman for the Lord of
Brlolen. He was fine young fellow
and had fallen head and heels in love
with Mareilis, who liked him well
enough, but she was willful and had de-
termined that if later she was to obey all
her life, she would for little while play
the queen to her hearts content. This
never occurred to her lover, and when
she teased him and plagued him he was
as Respondent as-well as all other low
ers are in the same circumstances.
One evening Iurisch stopped at the
castle on his way home to see his be-
loved one. She was sitting in the court,
under huden tree, gazing dreamily at
the sky. He began to tell her his love,
but the maiden laughed carelessly, and
pointing to the neon, said: cousin,
if thou eanst tighten up my window l
will be thine" When Iurisch heard
that he spurred his horse, for he knew
that window well; and knowing that the
moon never shone in there, the cruel
Jest made him sad. But as he rode
though the wOodof Karalene and reached
the cross-road q moonbeam glided
through the frs and fell at his horses
feet. Then he thought: "If I could
only ride along this moonbeam and have
talk with the man in the moon, /
could fix things all right" Gas long as
q Littauer is on horseback he never gives
up hope.) At the same moment the
horse rose in the air, the young fellow saw
wood and the castle far beneath him, and
in few minutes he was near the man in
the moon, who was slowly tOddling along
his path. Now IuIiscb, like all good
Littauers, knew that he must not burst
IN the door of house if he had horse
or anything to sell, but that one must
talk about the weather and the family
aud the crops, and 80 gradually work
around to business. He accordingly
approached the man in the moon in this
manner, but the latter only growled, and
noticed neither horse nor rider, for he
found it hard going, the night was SO
sultry. While Iurisch was considering
what to do they came to the Milky Way,
where they met Peter. who was out for
ride.
Hello" said the man in the moon,
you are well fixed, Master Peter; but
we have to walk night after night, cold
or warm" and he powdered his sweating
face with some star dust.
Well" answered Peter, "for my
part I'd rather have little more to do,
for the pearly gates don't open very
often nowadays. But / see you have
visitor from below, and Littauer at
that. They are the best hands at horse
trade 1 ever knew, and Satan himself
couldn't cheat them. They are very
fond of mead, and that's O beverage a
man will lick all his fingers after drink
ing. I'm willing you should try bottle
or two" said Peter, laughing and smack
ing his lips, and jogging his horse, on he
went
A little more and Iurisch would have
followed him. Peter had taken III his
horse at q glance, and Iurisch had almost
determined upon trade, but he remem-
bered the old rIlle-neyer to run after q
horse You want to buy-and he thought
of Mareilis and her demand. He turned
to the man in the moon, who looked
thirstier than ever, and tapping him on
the shoulder exclaimed:
"Say, did you hear what Peter said
about our mead?"
"About your mead ?" answered the
man in the moon.
That's what laid, /" replied Iurisch.
AS soon as the heather blooms we let
the bees out, and then take some of their
honey from the hives. We let the
honey iquefy in the sun, add to it herbs
and water from the Memel river, and
then put it in the cellar where you can't
see it."
"The more pity" exclaimed the man
in the moon.
"Thats So" said Iuriscb. "If you
could only see it; there it is under the
castle Of Ragnit, kegs and bottles by the
thousands"
The man in the moon wiped his
mouth.
eff you like" said his companion, 81
might get you couple of bottles"
"That would be risky" said the man
in the moon, with his tongue sticking to
the roof of his mouth.
"Wel," said Iurisch, sits dark down
there, and / can't have any light now.
But You can lend me your lantern"
"It's against the rules" said the man