The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-08

could move: for Old Witch Bitter
Wether was fine enchanter, and all
her charms were homemade and
guaranteed.
Feb Immediately conceived the idea
that the best thing to do was to
snatch one of the Weather brothers
and try to carry him to a doctor to
be cured of his enchantment. So he
made a jump and seized his particu-
lar friend, Variable Weather, and
tried to drag him out. But Variable
Weather was so firmly enchanted that
he would not move; and the old witch
whistled and in came a Sun dos, big
and yellow, with fiery eyes. He swung
fat Feb high in the air and hurled him
out of the window. Poor Feb fell
straight on his head. and when he
limped home theY found that he had
fallen so hard that he was shortened
for life.
Big, brawny, ill-tempered March be-
came so angry at this that he rushed
to the witch's house, and without
stopping to knock at the door, he
jumped clean through the window
with roar and with another roar he
seized Old Witch Bitterwether and
began to shake her.
He nearly strangled her, but she
cried:
Here Nero, good dog!"
In came the littlest but the worst
dog of all. 1t was the famous Dog
gered. He leaped on March and bit
him and shook him and worried him
and tore him till March crept to the
door on his hands and knees and skunk
out trembling.
"Ha, ha, hal" cried Old Witch Bit
terwether. you came in like a lion,
but you go out like a lamb! And that
is what you shall do evermore here
after!"
Poor March was so ashamed that
he tried to go into his home by the
rear door, but April saw him. And
April at once declared that his three
brothers We're too foolish for any use,
and that he himself would go to Witch
Bitterwether and show them how to
break charms.
But April had bad failing. He
never kept his mind on one thing for
more than a minute. So he had hard
ly started before he became interested
in a SNOWFALL fight. And when he
reached Old Bitterwether's door at
last he had forgotten just what he
came for, and after he had talked for
a while with the old witch he went
away again, and he didn't remember
that he had not really done anything
until he got near his home. Then he
changed his mind about bothering
about the enchanted Weather broth
ers, and went TO bed. But he dream
ed beautifully about them and wept
in his sleep over the sad lot
His sister May knew well that this
would happen. So she herself went
quietly to the witch's house and
peered in when the old witch opened
the door to shake her rugs.
Seeing her opportunity, she slipped
in and hurried to the enchanted
weathers to ask them how she could
break the charm.
IF you could make me cry so that
It would melt the ice around my
heart" said big Rainy Weather. Il
would become disenchanted and could
help you"
So sister May hid herself, and that
night, when Old Witch Bitterwether
was outside in the garden, pouring
fresh cold out of her barrels over the
world, she sang a song of spring and
blossoming flowers and leafy woods.
And Rainy Weather all at once re-
membered the wonderful world-the
mountains and the valleys through
which he had wandered at will. And
he wept till the ice melted away from
his heart.
quick, now" he cried I'VE must
drag Windy Weather's old cloud dog
in. He is enchanted, too but II
Windy Weather once gets him by the
chain the charm Of both will be
broken"