Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-06-29

fantastic looking creature. out she wa,
too charitable to turn him away without
a morsel So she made the beggar SIT
down upon the doorstep. and then sh,
brought him a small piece Of bread and
a biz piece Of cheese. hoping that the
size Of the one would make up for the
smallness Of the other.
The red beggar fell to eating with the
appetite Of a hoard of locusts and as il
he had eaten nothing for a month. and
II was hardly the twinkling Of an eye be-
fore he had finished the bit of bread com.
pletely.
Please. mistress" lac said beseeching.
~. please, mistress, could you not give
me just a little wee bit of bread to eat
with The rest OF my cheese?'
The dame. although this was exactly
what she did not wish to do. cut him a
slice Of bread and gave it to him with
the best grace she could manage.
The ragged rascal fell to eating even
faster than before. and almost before
she had laid down the bread knife he
had made an end to his cheese.
Please. kind mistress" he said more
humhly than before, please. kind mis-
tress, couldn't you give me morsel Of
cheese to 90 with my bread?"
This also was Dame Barbarer fam to
do, and hungrily as the fire devouring a
field Of ripe grain did the variet make
way with his bread.
please. good, kind mistress" he said.
please, good, kind mistress, could yon
not give me "A very little, wee morsel Of
bread to eat with my cheese
And to cut short story which thoagh
IT would be long in the telling was not
long in the doing, the red becgar would
contriye first to make an end 10 LIS bread
and then TO make an end 10 his cheese.
begging with ever increasing insistance
for more Of one and then of the other.
until lac had managed to beg from Damo
Barbarer every morsel of bread there
wac in the house. and the hour Of the
good mans return already striking. And
when ali was gone the impudent and I'M
grateful red varlet threw back his hair
from his deep set and piercing eyes and
laughed in her face
Many thanks. sweet mistress" he
said saucily, If the good man scold
for lack Of his supper, teach him the way
| get mine, and it may serve him in
good stead If he will bat take to the
highway and seek out some soul as char.
table as his wife,.
Then it was that for almost the only
time in her life Dame Barbarer lost her
temper.
Get you gonel' she cried angrily. Il.
il not enough that you have eaten all the
good mans supper when lie toiled all
lay and you have been asleep. it is like.
". IN the sun beside some havstack. but
"a return YOU must stay, and nout me
Tor my silly good nature. A pretty re.
turn, good sooih, for the food have given /
you! Gel You gone " bile can still keen
my honest hands OFF your lazy carcass.
The vagabond scrambled up from Ia.
seat upon the doorstep. and stood look.
ING into her angry face with an unpleas.
ant laugh
May not come in aud warm myself
by the fire first he asked sauciIy.
Come IN and warm vourselff echoed
The dame angrily Let your sumner
warm you. bUggari
And with that she pushed him oil Of
he step into the sandy walk
May you be colder the more you put
N, said the red beggar as Dame Bar.
'arer closed her cottage door upon him
With push not very gentle.
The dame did not heed him or hi.
words but set 30 work with all speea Ia
ct something ready for her husbands
upper.
"shiyery shakeryl' said Dame Bar
arer TO Goodman Paul when lie came I