The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-10-07

FOR LITTLE
FOLKS
THE MAGIC POT.

Once upon time there lived a
very poor man named Jams, in dis
can't part of India.
Now, the landlord who owned the
hut which JAMS called home was
rich, but greedy man. He had big
inn, too, but he was always threaten
ing to throw the poor family out of
its house.
| One day he came around for the
rent. Poor Jams had not enough mon
ey to pay what was due.
"You are lazy rascal, shouted the
angry landlord. "If you do not bring
me the money by supper time this eve
ming will put you and your family
into the street at once" And with that
he rode off.
Jams was so distressed that he ran
wildly away from the house into the
woods. And as he fled he seemed to
be pursued by the angry landlord. At
last, when he was tired out he threw
himself down to rest, but he found he
was falling into a pit of loose stones.
He picked himself up and looked
about From the side of the pit ran
a winding walk, which ended at a
tiny cottage, and before the door Of
this cottage was a brown dwarf hoe
ing tall sunfowers.
81 beg your pardon, sir" said Jams,
politely, taking off his cap, "but can
) you tell me how to get out of here?"
Certainly" replied the dwarf "You
are the first person who ever came
here who had politeness enough to
take off his cap to me. So will show
: you the way home and give you a
3 present in the bargain, for Judge you
2 are very poor. If you get into any
/. trouble about this, come back and LEI
S me know"
+ The dwarf placed in JAMS hand {
: queer little brown pot.
e IF you wish good luck" he said
: take off the lid and turn it upside
:, down."
e JAMS put the pot in his pocket, an
# when the dwarf showed him ladde
runnig up the side of the cliff he wa
1t soon on his way home. But he decid
- ed to go at once to his landlord an
3 see if the pot would be means @
IS paying the debt.
II On reaching the inn he went int
IS the storeroom, in which there was n
Is one, so that he could be quiet. The
n. he took off the lid of the pot an
turned it upside down. Out of tn
IN pots brown mouth there poured
IL stream of gold coins that clinked 9
at they fell in shining stream to til
i'd floor
er Now, it happened that the landlor
t. was peering through a crack and sa
lie what Jams did.
IN "Ha! hal" he laughed. $50 Jar
IN has found a pot which will pour OF
e- gold for him. l think ] will manae
H. to steal it." And when Jams went o.
ar of the front door with the gold in h
tie hands to pay the landlord, that wick'
en- man slipped in the back door and toe
20 the pot, putting another just like
al in it's place.
he When JAMS got home he found tn
Of the pot he had brought with him vi
re- not the magic one. Then he kne
es that the landlord must have seen
to with the gold pouring out and stol'
is it. So Jams ran back to the pit, roll
ny down and went up to the good diva
re- ! again.
Of 81 am sorry to trouble you, xii
is sir, a second time, said Jams polite
mt "But that rascal landlord has stol
ng- the magic pot you gave me-"
ice ooh, that's nothing" laughed t
little man. Here's another. Just S
if he will steal this. Go by his i
ert and let him try it again.
ing So JAMS took the pot, went to t
= inn and managed again to leave t
room with the pot behind. Just
he expected, the greedy landlord W
by watching and, creeping in, grabb
ley the pot.
II - ,