New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-03-17
the Kitchen and disappear in a dark
corner near the pantry.
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lingering her beads with trembling
| hands.
THE Lord save us an defend us!"
exclaimed the Presbyterian.
"It's them wicked books that
the masters aye reading when he gets
the mistresss back turned, said one
to the other. "It's them, sure enough,
that's bringing a curse upon the place.
just then steps were heard at the
door,a Andy, theplowman came i'll.
Good evening, girls, said he, draw
ing a stool to the fire. ssWhere's the
mistress?"
| "she's in the room upstairs, Andy"
Andy smoked in silence for some
time. At length he shook the ashes
out OF his pipe, and nodded his head
slowly.
He's afoot the night, says he fhys-
teriously.
"Aye, that he is, cried the servants.
'But what did you see, Andy?'
II seen something like horse with
three legs in the wee lane, an it passed
me an went round the barn into
Paddy's yard. .
The women listened breathlessly,
and then related their own experiences.
Has the master seen him yet?'
"Him? Ma, ma; he doesna believe in
them things, opined Peggy
"He'll be brought to believe in them
then, girls, or my names not Andy
Jameson. It's my belief that the
Evil One Is given power here for a
Judgment on the place, and it's like
enough he'll be allowed to stop wi us
till the bad, misbelieving books is put
away out o. this. Who'll speak to
the master before Cloughfn is de-
stroyed like the Cities of the Plain, for
the wickedness that is therein? Sure,
sure, the master has had warning
enough! Them that's ava"
Here Andy paused. He could not
bring himself to name the unhappy
deceased, thought Of with pity and
awe as a lost SOUL and never spoken
OF in Cloughfn except in whispers.
"Ill tell you what took placeyester-
day morning." continued Andy. 81
rose early, an as I was passing
through the town | heered O. neighing
an stamping in the masther' stable,
as If all the horses was loose. l un-
|
as Pm a living sinner this night, there
wasna ane o. them united and stirring
AVA. Then the noises began like in
the byre, an AVA to see what was
making the COWS low sac furious. All
was quiet there, too, when | opened
the door; but the sounds began again
in the stable that had just left. Sure,
the dumb beasts must ha' seen some
thing that I couldna see-like the ass
O. Balaam, that we'er minister was
reading about on Sabbath, only it
wasna an angel o. the Lord, I'll war
rant YOU
"Weel Andy?"
"Weel, was going by Paddy's cor
ner, on my way to my work, when l
seen something go before me all the
way down the lane, an fall wi a flop
into the Burn
what was it like, anyway, Andy
dear?"
"In troth, girls, Gamma even it to
anything but a wee, wee woman, cut
aft at the knees, an covered over wi
rags an tatters. She moved on in
front O. me, an l seen her as plain as
see you now
"Save us an preserve us!" cried Peg
gy. "Tll speak to the mistress an
tell her what's going on-aye, I'll do
it if was to die for it"
can you'll be in the right, Peggy
Crawford. Fleech her to have the
misbelieving books put away. You
mind how the storm went down when
Jonah was thrown out o. the ship.
God be WI you. / maun gaze hame,
for the wife an weans ill be wonder
ing what's come o. me-"
So saying, Andy heaved a deep sigh
and went away.
Joe Fleming was spending the night
from home and his wife had been oc-
cupied for long time in the room up
stairs She entered the kitchen at this
moment and the servants saw that
her eyes were red with crying.
"Mistress DEAR" began Peggy, "what
kept you up there your lone all this
time?''
| "sure, Peggy, was just reading a
psalm, an putting up a prayer tol
then that needs it. =
"Do you mean the master, mistress
. dear?"
1 "Aye, girl, wha' wad l mean but Joe
Fleming, that wilma put up prayer
| for himself, let aloneread a chapter O
| the guide book?"
! "But maybe he reads other books
that's no good books, mistress"
"Not now. Peggy since the
brother was buried. He promised mt
he'd read them nae mair; an sure hs
wadna break his word to me, y replied
the wife, wistfully.
! ''You're under a mistake" saic
Peggy; ''an' heart sorry it is I am K
tell you sac; but every evening, whe1
you go up to the room, the master
gets out his book, an sits readin:
there in the corner. Jane an me see!
him quite plain, an the minute h
:. hears your foot on the stairs he hide!
} ava The book"
}, can what book is it, Peggy" asked
the young wife with tears brimmin|
4 over in her sad, sweet eyes.
The servant shuddered as she re
piled:
, sH;r, thot,s conc owned II Manv,