The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-02-18
Cir @aiEg Bulletin.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1884.
The Wish Ring.

night without reward? Walk two days till
you come to Il great fir tree that stands all
alone in the forest, and ovcltops all other
trees If you can hew it down you will make
your fortune
Not waiting to have the advice repeated,
the farmer shouldered his axe and started on
his journey. Sure enough, after tramping
two days he came to the fir tree, which he
instantly prepared to cut down. just as the
tree swayed, and before it fell with crash,
there dropped out of its branches nest con-
tanning two eggs. The eggs rolled to the
ground and broke, and there dalted out of
one a young eagle, and out of the other
rolled gold ring. The eagle grew larger,
as if by enchantment, and when it reached
the size of man it spread its wings as if to
try their strength, then, soaring upward, it
cried: ''4ou have rescued me; take as
reward the ring that lay in the other egg;
it is a wish-rng. Turn it on your finger
twice, and whatever your wish is, it shall be
fulfilled. But remember there is but single
wish in the ring. No sooner is that granted
that it loses it's power, and is only an ordinary
ring. Therefore, consider we'll what you
desire, SO that you may never have reason to
repent your choice" SO speaking, the eagle
scared high in the air, circled over the farm
er's head a few times, then darted like an az
row towards the east.
The farmer took the ring, placed it on
his finger, and turned on his way home
ward. Toward evening he reached a town
where a jeweller sat in his shop behind
counter, on which lay many costly rings
for sale. The farmer showed his own, and
asked the merchant it's value.
cit isn't worth straw" the jewe]er
answered.
Upon this the farmer laughed very heartily,
and told the man that it was wsh-ring, and
of greater value than all the rings in the shop
together.
The ieweller was wicked, designing man,
and so he invited the farmer to remain as his
guest over night. ''For,'' he explained,
''only to shelter man who owns a wish-ring
must bring luck
words and that night, as the farmer lay
sound asleep, the wicked man stole the
magic ring from his finger and slipped on in
its place common one, which he had made
to resemble the wish-rng.
The next morning the eweller was all
impotence to have the farmer begone. He
awakened him at cock-crow, and said,
You had better 90, for you have still a
long journey before YOU
AS soon as the farmer had departed, the
jeweller closed his shop, put up the shutters,
so that no one could peep in, bolted the
door behind him, and standing in the middle
of the room, he turned the ring and cried
81 wish instantly to possess million gold
pieces -
No sooner said than the great, shining
gold pieces came pouring down upon him
in a golden torrent over his head, shoulders,
and arms, ptifully he cried for mercy, and
tried to reach and unbar the door; but
before he succeeded, he stumbled and fell
bleeding to the ground. AS for the golden
rain, it never stopped til! the metal crushed
the floor, and the eweller and his money
sank through the cellar. The gold still
poured down till the million was complete.
and the jeweller lay dead in the cellal
beneath his treasure.
The noise, however, alarmed the neigh
bours, who came rushing over to see what
the matter was; when they saw the man
dead under his gold, they exclaimed
''Double unfortunate he whom blessings
kill" Afterward the heirs came anC
divided the property,
In the meantime, the farmer reached
home in high spirits and showed the ring tC
his wife
'IIenceforth, we shall never more be il
want, dear wife" he said Our fortune is
made. Only we must be careful to consider
well just what we ought to wish.'
The farmers wife, of course, profferec
advice. Suppose" she said, THAT We
wish for that bit of land that lies between