The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-12-27

Il was evening when the rish brother rot
The qGeru home, and next morning be told
his vile 70 80 out into the bayfield, and
toss while the mowers cut the grass, and ha
would stay nt home and get the dinner
ready. 50, when dinner time drew near,
be put. the qusrn on The kitchen table and
said;
Grind hcrrinss and broth, and grind
them good and fast.n
So the queTn began to grind berrinrs and
broth; first Of all al the dishes full, then
al the tubs foil, and so on till the kitchen
was quite covered. Then the man twisted
aud twirled al the quem to get il to stop,
but for all his twisting and lingering the
QueTn vent on grinding, and In little
while the broth rose sa high that the man
Was like to drown. So he threw open The
kitchen door and ran into the paFlor; but
il wasn't long before the queru had ground
the paFlOV full too, and Il was only at the
risk OF his life that the man could get hold
OF the latch of the house door through the
stream Of broth. When he GOT the door
open he ran out and set of down the road,
with the stream Of herring snd broth as
hts heels roaring like waterfall over the
whole farm.
Now, his old dame, who was 10 the field
tossing the hay, thought it long time TO
dinner, aud at last she said
Well! though the master doesn't call us
home we may rs we'll 20 maybe he finds it
hard work To boil the broth aud will be
glad Of my help"
The men were willing enough, so they
sauntered hemeN ards; but, just as they
had got little way up the hill, what
should they meet but herring broth
and bread, all running and dashing and
splashing Together in a stream, and the mas
ter himself running before them for his
lie, and rs he passed them he bawled out,
" Would to heaven each of YOU had hum
dred threats but take care you're not
drowned in Il Q broth"
Away he went, Us though the evil one
were at his heels, 10 his brothers house, and
begged him for Gnd's sake to take back the
quern that instant; for said he:
" II il grinds only Que hour more the
whole parish will DO swallowed up by her
ring and broth"
But his brother wouldn't hear oftaking It
back till the other paid him down $500
more.
so the poor brother got both the money
and the quern, and it wasn't long before he
set up \ farm house far finer than the one
in which his brother lived. and with the
querR he ground so much gold that no COW
cred II with plates OF gold; and as the farm
lay by the seaside the golden house CLEANED
and glistened TAR away over the sea. All
who sailed by put ashore to see the rich
man in the golden house and see the won
derlu quern, the fame Of which spread far
and wide till there was nobody who hadn't
heard Of it.
So one day there came a skipper'who
wanted to see the quegn, and the first thing
he asked was if it could grind salt.
Grind salt? said the owner: al
should just think it coald it can grind
anything"
When the skipper heard that he said he
must have the quern, cost what it would,
for il he only had it he thought he should
be rid Of his long voyages across stormy
seas for lading of salt Well, at FIRST the
man wouldn't hear of parting with the
quern, but the skipper begged and prayed
so hard that at last he let him have it, but
he had to pay many, many thousand dollars
for it, Now, when the skipper had got the
quern Oh his back he soon made off with Il,
Tor he was afraid lest the man should
change his mind so he had no time TO ask
how to handle the quern, but got on board
his ship us fast as he could and set s4il.
When he had sailed a good way OF he
brought the quern on deck and said:
Grind salt, and grind both good and
FAST
Well, the quern began TO grind salt so
that it poured uut like water; and when
the skipper had got the ship iul he wished
to stop the quern, but whichever way he
turned it aud however much lie tried, il
was no good; the quern kept grinding on,
and Slie heap Of salt grew higher and high
er, and at last down sunk the ship.
There lies the quern at the bottom Of the
sea aud grinds away ut this very day, aad
that is the reason why the sea is salt.