The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-05-09
WHOLE NO. 774
Edpin r. Hall, in the Yale Record.

Ed,oin r. Hall, In the Yale Record.
Now, when the autumn was come, It was
30 that the land Of Nsw-Ha-ven and the
country round about aboundsd with much
fruit, so that the sound Of the cider press
ceased not from morning even unto the
night.
In the morning the husbanduan arose and
said: "Go to; apples arc not worth much,
but 80 much as they will fetch will have"
And he loaded up his wagon and filed its
bed even to overaowing with bell-fowes
and seek. k.no.furthers and spitzenbergs and
snow-appies and russsts, each after his kind.
And when he was como nigh to ths town,
10, three town boys met him and spoke into
him delicately and said: "Give Us =
n'appls?" ---...-. ........-..,
And his heart was moved with good na-
ture and he hearkensd unto their words and
said unto them: "Yea, climb In and eat
your FILL"
And as he journeyed on he met yet tive
other boys, and they waxed bold when they
saw the first three riding and eating apples,
and they cried aloud. "Glvs US sn' apple ?"
And tho man spake unto them and said,
"Yea," and they CLONE In.
And they spake not one to another, neither
did they cease to cat apples save when they
paused that they might take breath.
And the husbandman made merry and
laughed within himself TO sec them eat, and
he said, "Ho, no; no, no."
But the lads laughed not, for they were
busy.
Now, the eldest Of the boys was IS years
old, and the youngest thereof was in his 9th
year, and they were exceedingly lean and
ill-favored.
And when the husbandman was entered
into the city, he drove along the streets and
lifed up his voice and shouted aloud, cap
pulls! ap-pulls! Here's yer highs satin' ap-
pulls! Ap pulls! ap-pullsw
And the women Of the city leaned over
the fences and said, one to another, "Lo,
another apple-wagon
And they spake unto the man and said :
"Hast thou of verify good eatunapplss ?"
And he said: "Of = verify have. Come
forth"
And when they were come forth they
looked into his wagon, and they were wroth,
and cried out against him, and they said :
"Thous hast mocked US, and thou has de-
ceived thine hand-maidens with the words
Of thy mouth. Wherefore, then, dost thou
drive through the city crying appulls2"
And when he had turned him and looked,
he was speechless.
And the women Of the city cried: "Go to,
are not thy words altogether lighter than
vanity?"
And he smote upon his breast and sware
unto them, saying :'"I am the son Of truth
ful man; when thy servant left home this
morning there was even thirty. seven bushels
Of apples In the wagon bed"
Now there was In the wagon nsught save
i've boys.
And the husbandman necked the lads, and
entrsated them roughly, for, he said: aye
have cast my apples into the street"
But the lads wept bitterly, and said, "Nay,
not so; are thy servants pigs that they should
do such things?"
And he said: "Declare unto me then wha,
thou hast done with my apples"
And the lads pointed At each other, even
each one At his fellow. and they wept, and
they exclaimed with one accord: "Hs %.
EN-"
And the husbandman was wroth and
would not believe them; for he wist no,
that the town boy was hollow clear into the
ground.
But the women Of the city cried unto him
and said: "How far 10 1t the lads have rid.
den with thes?" And he said: "Evsn a. fal
- mile aud half"
And the women laughed and made merry,
and said: "Of surety 1t is even 50 a. the
lads have said. They have eaten up all the
apples"
And they made light Of 1t - though 1t had
been very small thing for the lads to do.
And the husbandman msrveled greatly
within himself, for the five lads did not all
ono small end Of the wagon. And 1t was %
that it was beyond his finding out where the
thirty.seven bushels Of apples had stored
themselves. ...."
| So he turned himself about and he drove
home, and he commanded tho lads that they
follow him not.
And they hootsd at him and cast stonss
after him, even into the city gates, for such
is the custom Of the town boy.
But the husbandman spake not unto them,
neither reproved he them, for his mind wa,
heavy with thinking Of this wonder he had
seen. .