The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-12-14

uS lViN kuUlc Ulltl Uck@lIl HIDl1lkl0R
Of all the good deeds he would do fOr ill
poor neighbors the sooner to forget whit
he had just done. There Is old Martin,
who can never get the money 10 nav l,is
rent. What an excellent thing Il win ia
to wave my wand and give him Il new tnt
tage,, all his own, with II garden and a
COW. | will turn back at once and give
the poor old man a fine surprise. ss
Martin lived behind the mill, ana R,,fns
had to pass over the ros,d BY which he
had just come. When lie reached th.,
place where he had talked with the Iittae
girl he saw her sitting in the doorway
with u fNwn upon her brow and her
eyes swollen with tears. ~sEs
Where is your beautiful shipy' asked
Rufus. '*. -, ~" &.s.-5,s I 80
MY mother took it from me because
it was too fine for me to play with, z nm
sWereI the little girl, sullenly.
chips again and enjoy yourself as you did
before" r. ssRss''
~ will not play with the silly things
answered she. "rhcy are only chips. II
cannot have II real boat l will not play
ut ALL $3.50.
Rufus was much perplexetl: He walked
slowly on. trying to think Of some Way
to restore to the little girl tie light heart
she had had when he first saw her. HI
had gone but short distance when he
heard the sound of loud weeping and saw
some women gathered around door.
He approached and asked what was the
trouble.
1T is an old woman whose son has
Just been found dead" they replied Ru-
fus heart sank. WAS he 50 good Il SOM
he asked. s!s
ooh, no. replied the women, che was
only lazy fellow, but his mother had
no one else to love, and now she is weep.
ing and praying heaven THAT she too may
die rather than spend the rest of her life
Dear me- thought Rufus, lit seems
as if have as yet done no good to any
one but tlle travellers who wanted rain, y
and he tuilcd onward with his head
bowed i - s
AS he drew near old Martins cottage
the thought of the pleasure he was about
to bcstow chccrad his spirits. When lie
reached tho door the loud voices of angry
men came out to him. and inside he saw
crowd, with old Martin in the midst.
There is the fellow now,' cried one
him wcll.' YES! yes!' they shouted
and before Eufu$ knew what was about
to happen they had seized him and fas
tened his arms to his sides.
Good friends" said Rufus. what
have | done that you should dead with
me so cruelly:'
Then they all began to tell him tina,
he knew quite we'll that he had spoiled
the harvest by making rain fall while
they were gathering the grain. "Yor
are IL wicked wizard, and fit for nothing
but to die" they &;tid, "sincc you have
taken the bread out of our children'<
mouths
Let us drown the wicked fellow in the
mill-pond!' cried old Martin. So the.
dragged poor Rufus away so frightened
that he could not speak. "Ah!' thought
he, IF only the wizard had given mt tht
power OF becoming invisible could save
my Life
When they reached the door of til,
mill the mller's boy, in his dusty apron
came rrtming ont to meet them. kline
friends" he said, when he found wha
the matter was, since this old fellow j.
to be drowned and will not need hi.
stick any more, will you please give it t.
meT'
The men liked the miller's son. so the,
gave him the stick, but 10 sooner had hi
taken it into his hand than the old maj
disappeared. Instead of him the angr,
men found themselves holding the mil
ler's boy himself. a shout arose tina
the old man had escaped and they Ill
ran off to look for him. You may be
sure they never found him, and you ma,
also he sure that Rufus never. told any
one that it was he who had done all The
| mischief
Rufus never saw the wizard again, bu
he understood after that why it might
be plea,santer to be Il mill boy than to bt
il WiZard.--NeW York World.