Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08
The Golden Glove.

There was q young, rich and beautiful
lady who was about to be married to q
lord. a day or two before the wedding,
the lord brought his friend, a gallant and
handsome young farmer, to see the lady of
his choice. The lady fell in love at first
sight with the farmer, and ere they parted,
the farmer was as deep in love with her.
When the morning of the wedding had
come, the lady, love-siCk for the young
farmer, instead Of betakIng herself to the
kirk to be married, took to her bed, and
the wedding was put off. Nevertheless,
in the afternoon, she disguised her face,
and dressing herself in manly apparel, went,
with cross-bow on her shoulder, and with
her dogs at her heels, to hunt on the grounds
of the farmer, which were part of her own
estate.
She crossed and recrossed the hills,
whistled and halloed to her dogs, without
meeting the farmer. As she was beginning
to fear that he was absent, and was about
TO withdraw, she met him coming up the
road.
She professed to be surprised to see him,
as she understood he was to be at the we'd
ding to give away the bride to the lord.
''Ah!" said the young farmer, with a
sigh, II would that she were as poor as
myself, that | might ask her. to give her
self to me-"
care you, then, in love with the prom
Ised bride of the young lord, your friend2
How would you answer to him, should
the lady favor your hopes?" said She
"With sword and axe l would give him
a meeting, and let the best man VIM
AT parting, the young lady drew from
her pocket glove embroidered with gold,
and said to the farmer, "Here is a glove
picked up on the way thither; as l am g
stranger here, | will leave it with you in
order that you may find the owner"
Next day she sent out the crier to say
that she would take the man who found it
for her husband, if the man were willing" {"
The young farmer heard the proclama-
tion, and half wild with Joy, and half
doubling his good fortune, took his way to
the house of the lady. He presented the
glove, and modestly reminded her of the
reward promised to the finder, and although
that reward was far above his hopes, it was
what his heart most ardently desired.
Before he left her, she confirmed the
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him for her husband. The report was soon
spread abroad, and coming to the lords
ears. he demanded that the farmer should
resign his claim to the lady, or else meet
him in single combat.
The farmer answered that he would never
resign the lady while there was breath in
his body, but that he would meet the young
lord when and where he pleased, and with
whatever weapons he liked to choose.
Swords and bucklers being chosen, on
the day appointed for the fight the lord and
the farmer, accompanied by their seconds,
or shleld-bearers, and their friends, mot to
settle their difference. With the assistance
of their shields, the combatants warded off
each others blows for some time, but at
last the farmer Glove his adversarys shield
In twain, and following up his advantage,
brought the young lord to his knees by a
blow on his helmet.
Then putting his sword to his throat, he
made the young lord resign all claim to the
lady, and beg his own life.
Soon the handsome young farmer and
the rich and beautiful lady were married.
and after time she told him of her device
Of the glove, and that the game that she
hunted that day with her dogs and her
cross-bow, was the young farmer himself.
Both agreed that for the hunter and the
hunted, that hunting was the happlest that
had ever had been undertaken In Thule.