The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

| the house, leaving the horse and plow
| in the field
He glanced at the woodshed as he
! passed. Hello, my lad! Well, you
are quick worker. Why, 1 thought
I'd given you a days job. And did
you handle all these logs alone?''
Yes. sir, said Tudor, his eye light
ing up. You see, expect to marry
as soon as l can get a piece of land
on which to build house. I'm IS, al
though 1 don't look it, Miriam, she's
the girl, I'm going to marry, read the
notice to me and told me IL was a
great chance for us, and l made up
my mind I'd work here until showed
you was worthy to try your plow."
well, l like your spirit, and I'd be
happy to have you win that twenty
| acres"
Why don't you try the pillow. sir?"
asked Tudor. although why he said
sir" in speaking to a man not much
older than himself, 1 don't known.
Sir is for very old men.
I'm not a farmer. I'm a lawyer"
said Harvey Il hate work in the
field and this pillow must be run by a
man who loves his work and who
likes me, and I'm not at all satisfied
with myself"
Tudor thought Harvey one of the
queerest men he had ever SEEN He fin
ished his work while Mr.. Windham
was talking to him.
by the way. had any kreakfast?"
asked Harvey.
mo, sir, rose before breakfast this
morning"
We'll, why didn't you say so at first?
You come into the house and get
breakfast. and then you'll be more
| likely to succeed"
Tudor soon finished his breakfast and
then he and Harvey went out to the
lot. There lay the ugly rocks.
That last plowman has given my
hired man a good days work at get
ting rid of these stones"
why doesn't your hired man try
the plow?" asked Tudor
He's supersttious. Said he wouldn't
touch it for all the acres in the world"
Tudor laughed. Il haven't an ounce
of superstition in me. / believe that
this pillow is enchanted because you've
tod me what it has DONE but I'd just
as soon break mirror or sit down with
u at table or walk under a ladder as
l would put on my hat"
Tudor grasped the handles as he
spoke, and, as before, Harvey went
back into the house.
Get up. old fellow" said Tudor,
pleasantly. Now. my little pillow, do
your rrettiest. for this kind man has
| given me work.
So saying he pressed the point Of
the plow into the soil and the imple-
ment dived into the ground like a
frog into a pond and up curled the
mellow earth at Its PROV. Tudor
was delighted and the horse pulled as
If blowing was little better than a
bag of oats. The pillow ran all right
for ten feet and then 1t brought 10
the surface a dull-colored stone about
as large as an ostrich egg. Tudor
was bothered. Harvey had told him
that the lot had no stones in 1t ex-
A4wx.r ~ 1. a
to come there, and here he was bring
ing up some more Could 1t be possible
that he had wished Windham evil
when he first refused to let him pillow?
He went on, but every ten feet he un-
earthed another dull stone, and at last
when he had plowed three burrows and
there were thirty ugly looking stones
in the freshly turned earth he stopped
the horse, and, leaning upon the pillow,
he burst into tears.
| Hello! What's the matter. my boy"
called voice some distance off, and,
looking up, Tudor saw Harvey coming
toward him.
II, too, must have evil thoughts"
said Tudor. See all the stones l have
| unearthed."
Harvey had now come up and he
stopped and picked up one Of the
STONES" In a moment he gave a cry
| of surprise and grasped Tudor's hand.
MY boy, you are the very one to
run this pillow. What you call stones
are really nuggets of gold. You have
made a rich man of meg
Tudor could hardly believe his ears.
| But il was true, every word. His
kindly thoughts and his desire to be
married to Miriam soon had acted on
the enchanted pillow, and he was rap
| idly making a gold field for his en-
| pIoyer that might cause men to rush
to Connecticut just as they rushed to
| California in 1S49.
But Harvey had all the money ne
| wanted He was one of those rare
persons who do not care for money.
my boy" said he, II wanted to zee
| IL this plow really had enchanted prop
critics. l see that 1t has. Go on and
| finish the blowing of this field and
| will give 1t to you with all IL con-
| tains and you can get married and
| come here to live"
Tudor was overjoyed He put his
! hand to the pillow, and thinking now
only OF Miriam, he plowed furrow af-
| ter furroW and then put the pillow back
into the barn and in half an hour It
had dropped to pieces and utterly dis
appeared
But If you pass through Fairsex
county in your travels you can't help
seeing q beautiful palace near Harvey
Wineham's and that palace belongs
to TUDOR. won't tell you his last
name. he is still alive and with mis-
wife. Miriam, he bids fair to pass
many happy years. His near neigh
Dor and good friend is Harvey Wind
parlor is little gold pillow mounted on
an ONYX slab