New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-11-17
THE JUDGES WOOING.

Judge OF the tribunal or StantZ ana
member of the grand council OF Lu-
cerne, after having slept for twenty
i've or thirty years through the clam
,ors Of the advocates on his circuit,
had obtained the favor of withdraw
ing to his snug villa, situated on the
Kusnacht street, near the German
gate There he was enjoying himself
under the supervision of his old house
keeper, Therese, a devoted person
with q crooked nose and chin gar
nIshed with a thin, gray beard.
These two, full of indulgence for one
another, respected their reciprocal
.naanias- Therese looked after the
household admirably, ironed the linen,
stock OF toba cco, shut up in large
stone jar, after which she was at
liberty to attend to her birds, read
her prayer book and go to mass.
Monsieur Zacharias was approach
ing his Goth year, wore a wig, and
>hAd no other distraction than to
cultivate a few flowers and read the
morning paper. This was well enough
ZOE a, time, but there came morning
when che worl seemed a blank. He
said to himself that he needed some
thing snore exciting than to watch
~ fo 1v1o vV>i141Nu oy,H hof0(v
himself III the mazes ofstupid politics.
He WAS very thoughtful for some
days, but one evening. after supper, a
bright idee came into his head. Il
have il; will 60 fishing he cried,
yclapping his hands SO loud that The
szese called out from the next room:
~''Whas is the matter, monsieur? One
might think you had fit"
The iAea thus suddenly born prov
ed to be a. stubborn one, and the
morning on which Monsieur Seller
FIRST set out, provided with a pole, a
big straw hat, a fishing bag, and other
accessories. was a veritable affair OF
state. 1herese was greatly dispeased
at this new turn in affairs. She NUT
tered to herself and had moments OF
irnpatience and was obliged to go to
confession twice oftener during month
than had been her custom. But, for
all that, she was forced to conform to
che new order OF things.
For example, whenever monsieur was
seized with a, desire to go fishing, the
excellent man who deplored to HIM
self his Seebleness would look up at
the sky, and say, with melancholy
shake OF the head: cit is very fine this
,aorning, Therese. What weather!
Not a drop of rain for three wceks!''
Therese would allow him to languish
for q few moments, then laying aside
her knitting and her prayer book, she
would go TO find the fishing bag the
waist coat, and the big hat of her mas
ter Then the old Judge would become
animated; he would rise up briskly
and say:
This is an excellent idea OF yours,
Therese. Yes, will go fishing
every we'll, monsieur, but be sure to
return at z o'clock. The evenings are
cool now.
One day in the month of July, 1916,
toward 8 o'clock in the afternoon,
-Zacharias found his fishing bag so full
eof salmon trout than he did not wish
ITO take any more, because, as he said
x5o himself, it was necessary to leave
SOME for the next day. After having
washed ais fish in a neighborMg spring,
and wrapped them carefully in sorrel
80 keep them fresh, he felt SO sleepy
shat he thou ut he would take nap
i'm the heather, and wait until the
shadows were longer to mount the
side of B;;s1berg-
FNaen, Saving broken his crust OF
soread ana moistened his lips from his
Militia bot lie, he clambered II cen or
twenty *stnps below the footp h, and
Sag dow, in the shade of the lii. trees
upen the moss, his eyelids growing
5heavx-
Neser had the old judge been SO
deeply sleepy. The oppressive heat OF
the sun, darling his long arrows of
gold into the shadow Of the wood, the
ssnurEaur OF insects upon the side of the
S1nili, ii, the meadows aud on the water,
sths distant cooing Of ring doves squat
ted under the sOmber shade of the
sbesch trees, formed such grand har-
:snony that the soul of Zacharias melt
ed away IN the universal concert. He
yawned, opened his eyes, and saw a
troop OF jaybirds traversing the foli-
age; then turning he thought he saw
Che cork on his line whirl and descend;
q salmon was caught. he was pulling
ut out; Che pole bent in a semi-circle
The good man was sleeping profound
". He dreamed. and che vast 1ches-
49, oh n: -.
sliusic as the time passed on.
4 Thousand animated beings had
Aived their life OF an hour when mon.
=sieur, the judge, awoke at the whistle
.of some bird he was not acquainted
with He sat up to see and conceive
sssslis surprise. The strange bird was q
girl OF Il or Is years old, With rosy
cheeks and red lips, her brown hair
floating in long tresses, q little turned
up nose. short Qetticoataf the color