Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-07-03
HI CHRONICLES.
CHAPTER III.

evening until the Summer time had
come.
2. And the stranger walked forth
in his fields in the cool of the day, and
10, where he had sowed good seed tares
had come up also.
3. And it was SO that in some places
the tares were many, and higher than
all the wheat which was in the field. ~
a. When he looked again he saw
that there were also in that field many
swine, both large and small, which be.
loneed to his neighbors; yea, they were
like the rocks on the Sea.shore for num-
beers.
(. While he looked the swine did
eat the wheat, but they ate not the
tares, and he said: "When the harvest
time shall come, where shall find the
wherewithal to make bread for myself
and my children, for no wheat will be
left unto me-"
6. So he went unto his neighbors
and said unto them: "I.o, thy swine
have come into my field; | pray thee,
therefore, to remove them, lest my har.
vest come to naught,"
7. And they answered and said un-
to him: awe will call to them that
they return"
8. But the swine loved the strane.
er's wheat field, and would not be kept
away. When the owners thereof did
shut them up, they straightway tore
down the gates and came back, and
would not be restrained.
Q. Then the strangers wrath grew
hot within him, and he said: overly,
it seemeth unto me that the devils which
| did enter into the swine in the days of
the Nazarene have remained there until
this day. | will see what saith the
law"
10. So he went unto the scribes whose
business it is to write and to read the
! law unto the people, and he said:
II. 80, We Judges, expound unto me
the law and read unto me the words of
the lawmakers. Who shall deliver us
from the plague of the swine, and in
what manner shall it be done?'
II. Then answered the Judge and
said unto him: overly, l say unto
you, the law saith he shall not be al.
lowed to run at large, but thou knowest
he is an obstinate beast, and what we
would have him do he will not.
Il. The law saith, and if he break
loose his owners shall pay the damage
which he doeth, even unto the utmost
| farihing."
ID. Bat the stranger said: "One
saith he is not mine, and another saith
he is none Of mine"
Is. Then spoke the Judge in this
wise: "Study thy neighbours ear mark
which do marx the swine withal, wheth.
er it be one ear cropped and the other
split, or both ears cropped or both ears
split, whether it be one ear split and
the other half cropped, or whether one
be cropped or split and the other whole,
OF whether there be left unto them no
ears at all
| 10. And when thou hast fully deter
mined beyond a doubt, whose swine
they may be, and canst bring witnesses
to prove the words of thy mouth,
II. Then shalt thou call for three
appraisers from among the people, and
they shall determine the value of that
which has been destroyed, then shall it
be returned to thee two-fold."
10. But the stranger marveled with
inhimself, saying: "When some belong
to one neighbor and some to another,
how can il be determined how much
damage each hath done2 Will not each
one say, mine did not so much
10. And if so be that the knife hath
not yet touched their ears, SO no mans
mark is upon them, how then shall my
wheat be paid"
20. Then the Judge said: "Put thine
own mark upon the beast and keep it
for myself"
FL. But the stranger thought within
himself: 81 like not such beast in