The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-08-25
NAHAS, THE Miller
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entirely and was for getting up and
going down to nave the life of Manas
T for he was starving with the hunger.
But she tried to smooth him down as
well as she could. And then he told
her to go down TO the kitchen and
make something else on the fire for
him.
oh, it's no use. says she, a-trying to
make anything on the fire, for there'll
be some other ache coming on that fell
lows ankle or some other trouble on
his mind and he'll be getting up in the
middle of it to tell me about it, But
I'll tell you what I'll do, says she,
IN go out and III milk the COW and
give you a good jug of sweet milk to
drink. and that will take the hunger
off you till morning"
He told her to get up quick and do it,
or she would find him dead of the hun
4 ger.
And off she went as quickly as she
! could. and took jug off the kitchen
/ dresser and slipped out, leaving Manas
! snoring loudly in the kitchen.
! But when Manas thought that she
/ had time to have the jug near filed
from the cow he slips out to the Dyer
and as it was dark he talked like the
old man: And says he. I'll die
with the hunger if you don't hurry with
that"
So she filled out the jug and she
reached it to him in the dark and he
drank it off and gave her back the
empty jug and went in and lay down.
Then she MIXED off another Jug for
herself and drank it and came slipping
in and put the jug easy on the dresser
so as not to waken Manas, and went
up to the room.
When she came up the old fellow was
raging there. Says he: You might
have MIXED all the COWS in the county
since. an me dead with hunger here
waitin' on it. Give me my jug of milk,
says he.
And what do We mean?" says she.
What do you mean. you old blather-
skite?" says the old man, says he.
Says she: Didn't you come out to
the Dyer and ask me for the jug of
milk there, an didn't 1 give il to you,
an didn't you drink it alp"
BE this and be that says he, but
this is a nice hOw-dO-ye-do. It's that
scoundrel," says he, lin the kitchen
that's tricked We again. An be this an
be that" says he, I'm goin' down now
an have his life"
And when she heard how she had
been tricked she was not "a bit sorry to
let him go and have Manas' life.
But Manas had been listening with
his ear to the keyhole to hear what
was going on, and when he heard this,
and while the man was preparing to 90
down and take his life, he hauled in d
calf and put it lying by the fireside
where he had been lying and threw
the cove" over il.
And when the man came down with
the sledge hammer he went for the
place where he knew Manas had been
lying. and he struck with all his might,
and he drove the hammer through the
calfs skull, and the calf only just gave
one NEW and died. And then the old
fellow went back to his bed content and
the miller went out and off home again.
When the old fellow and his woman
got up in the morning early to go and
bury the miller, they found the trick
he had played on them. and they were
in a pretty rage.
But when the breakfast was made
this morning, and DOnal and all of I
them sat down. I can tell you the old
fellow was in no hurry saying grace,
and Donal he got his hearty fill for |
once in his life, anyhow, and so did he
at night.
And when Donal was going back for
home on Monday morning, he leapt the
mill race, and Manas came out and
gave him a cheer. He got Manas' both
hands and he shook them right hearty
And every Monday morning after, for
the three years that the old fellow
lived Manas always saw Donal leap
the mill race as easy as a sparrow !
might hop over a rod.
At the end Of three years, the old /
fellow died, and Donal went to live on |
the farm altogether, and there was no |
friend ever came to see him that was |
more heartily welcomed than Manas !
the Miller.