Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-08-06

could she want? AT the Wulbrand'S
hof nobody ever lacked for any thing
had heard; so what did Wieschen mean
by hiding herself in order to get what
she wanted? And In the water, too
Before 1 could ask any questions, the
gardener with the woo den leg, made his
appearance at the end of the walk, and
the girls ran, dragging us with them.
The berry season was over, summer
had passed, and autumn had come into
tho land; and then, one day, the rumor
went that old Nolte had had vorge-
sicht. When it reached the ears of
Mohrhaus, the geometer, his black eyes
danced with mischief, and he called on
the sexton.
"I have had warning to prepare a
grave-for a grown person." the sex.
ton said, solemnly.
"From the Herr Pastor, or your
crazy spokenkieker asked Mohrhaus.
"From Nolte. Come with me, so that
you may be convinced at last. He does
not like to speak of these things to
strangers; but he will speak if ask
him to tell you"
If Notice eyes had encountered the
sight of ghost instead of the gay face
of the young geometrician, he could not
have started back in greater horror.
But Mohrhaus only sneered.
81 want to hear about your funeral
procession" he laughed. when will
1t arrive?"
"In three days from now," was the
positive reply. "But there will be no
procession" the old man added, sadly,
mot a single mourner will follow the
coffin"
"Oh-oh!" laughed the young man
again, that means, suppose, that I'M
less you really find some one to bury
within that time, you will simply put
straw man into the coffin"
"Tell him what the horses are like
that will bring the coffin on the wagon"
the sexton suggested to the old baker.
"Yes, tell me what kind of horses will
bringyour dead man." added the youth;
what are they like?"
Elm falber und Elm rappe," "a dun
horse and black one) was the impress
sive answer.
But Mohrhaus laughed the louder.
Elm falber urd elm rappe!" he re-
peated. Upon my word now-that is
the team the old German kings drove
in their chariots. Your dead man
comes in majesty!"
The geisterseher's patience was ex-
hausted.
death always comes in majecty!"
he cried, in ringing voice. "And you,
too, shall tremble before it ere three
suns have seti"
AS Mohrhaus was to go on sur
veying trip next day, he made sure
first, through the agency of the par
ish clerk, that there was no one sick,
or in immediate danger of dying of
old age, in the parish; and he received
from him the promise that If word
should be sent to dig grave he would
go himself and see that no such horses
as the spokenkicker had described
should draw the wagon.
On his return to Petershaken, the
third day, he was met with the in
formation that a funeral had been
announced to arrive from Eldagsen
that day, but had not yet come,
though it was then late in the after
noon.
Going to keep up old Notes repu-
tation at all risks" Mohrbaus said,
and he started Tor the tavern where he
expected to find the sexton.
The sun was fast approaching the
west, and rough wind blew through
the deserted streets; it seemed to
Mohrhaus that he heard the clatter
of hoofs on the cobblestones, as he
came along, but he paid no attention
to it.
The tavern-keeper informed him
that the sexton had just been sum
| moned away, as the loug-delayed fu-
| neral had come at last.
Mohrhaus' eyes twiDkleG, as he said:
Then ] must go to the graveyard at
once, before they put the straw-man
underground"
The sun was about to go down wher
he reached the gate of the cemetery;
he met the parish clerk, who told
him that the funeral had come-a lone
| Unlocking coffin on an open wagon
drawn by two horses-a dun horse and
a black one. The wagon that left El.
dagsen had been drawn by a span
of white horses; but they had become
unmanageable, had torn the harness
broken the wagon, and thrown the
coffin to the ground. The man who
drove the wagon, and the man who
followed, as solitary mourner, had
both been hurt; one of the white
horses had to be shot, the other had
run away, and the odd team now il
the wagon, had been picked up among
the people on the road.
"A likely story" said Nohrhaus, ant
he pressed on to where he saw mum
Der of men gathered around an opeI
grove, his friend, the sexton, among
them.
They had evidently removed the liz
from the coffin, or perhaps it hat
been broken by the fall. They al
seemed perturbed as the young MAJ
approached, and the sexton seemed