The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-05-20


! $500, on condition that he Shout
keep it in his own possession unit
harvest time.
by then" said the poor brother t
himself, 81 can get sufficient treasur
out of the mill to last me many years.
And so you will understand that h
made the most of his time, and di
not allow the mill to rust for want O
use. Then, when harvest time cam
round, he gave it up, but he did no
tell his brother how to stop it, an,
his brother, | suppose, did not thinl
of asking.
1t was night when the rich man tool
the mill to his house. The next day
he told his wife to go to the fields with
the reapers while he remained at home
and prepared the midday meal. Al
the dinner hour he placed the mill oil
the table and gave an order.
"Serve US with behring's and milk
SOUP" he commanded.
Then the mill proceeded to fill all
the dishes, all the pots, all the kitchen
with behring's and soup. The man
turned it first one way, then another.
In vain! The mill would not stop!
Soon the flood of soup had risen to
such height that the man was in
danger of drowning. He opened the
door of the room. The passages were
quickly filled. When, with difficulty,
he managed to reach and open the
hall door the torrent of milk soup,
with its floating behring's, dashed out
INTO the garden.
Meanwhile his wife, at work in the
fields, was getting hungry and won
lering why her husband did not call
Ter in to dinner. "Let us return to
he house," she said to the reapers.
My husband must have been unable
o get the dinner ready. l will go to
lelp him."
They went towards the house, and
we're met by a stream of milk soup
nd behring's. Through this ever-ris-
ng flood waded the rich brother.
81 wish," he exclaimed, "that each
ne of you had a hundred threats!
AXE care that this dinner does not
rown you!"
Then he ran, as though the Evil
me had been at his heels, to his broth
RS house, begging and praying him
} take back his mill. "If it goes on
Ike this for only an hour" said the
oh brother, "the entire village win
E submerged and disappear beneath
lie milk soup and behring's"
The poor brother consented to take
lck the mill, but he charged $500 /
n doing so! The rich brother was at
S mercy. The only thing he coulu
was to pay the money at once, and
stop that dreadful mill.
With this money, and some more
divided by the mill, the once poor
other built for himself a splendid |
'use. Its walls were covered with
I'D, and as it stood close to the sea,
5 glittering front was reflected in |
e water. The house could be seen
ON afar, and the fame of its lucky
yner spread abroad. Many people
me from long distances-came to
sit him.
these was the captain of a
ssing vessel who desired to see the
IL. He asked whether it could pro- /
ce salt, and when told that it could II
so, he resolved to buy it, no mat Il
: at what price. ''For when | have
is MILL" he thought, 81 shall no II
lger have to voyage on the sea in
der to procure cargoes of salt. l II
all become rich without taking any H
,uble, just by selling the salt OBJ
ned from the mill" II
And when the captain had been a II
lg time begging for the mill, the II
&c poor (but now rich) man con II
lted to sell it for an immense sum. H
soon as the captain had gained II
session of it he hurried away (for
r that the seller might want it
* AGAIN. without taking the trou- ii
to ask any questions about the
per use of the mill. He took it on II
nd his ship, and when she was
hit out at sea he stood it on the II
k and said to it: Bring me salt" :
md it brought him salt. The ship
) filled with salt. The captain then
ID to stop the workings of the mill,
whichever way he turned it, it
1t on pouring out salt. The ship
ke down with the weight and quick
sank. The mill fell to the bottom
he sea, where it is still ceaselessly
lding And this is the reason that
sea is salt.