Year: 1873

would be.


Suddenly she rose, leaned toward
tho stranger anu suil:


Pray tell me what those three
leaves are, sticking out Of your waist
coat 2"


The young man looked down and
found the twig, with tho three leaves,
which had fallen upon him while he
slept. 1t was caught in the flap OF his
waistcoat.


"It must have fallen from the great
beech tree just outside the village, he
replied. ~ had Il uap under 1t"
The girl listened attentively, wait
ing to hear what he would say next,
When he had ceased speaking. she
began to question him narrowly, till
she had ascertained beyond doubt
that he had really fallen asleep under
the great beech tree, and that, more
over he knew nothing of the wonderful
power and properties attached to the
tree. For he was a sly dog, and pre-
tended to know nothing.
As soon as she had done questioning,
she went and drew him another Jug o1
beer, and pressed him to drink, telling
him all the lovely things she had her
self dreamt, and what u pity it was
they had never come true.
just then the shepherd came from
the field, driving his sheep through
the village.


AS he passed the Grown Inn, he saw
the two sitting IN the arbor in earnest
converse, and he stood still moment
and said:


"Ah, yes, he'll be sure to tell you
the beautiful dream, though I can gel
nothing out of him." And tLen he
drove on his sheep.


When the girl found, do what she
would, she could not learn anything
about tho dream, her curiosity knew
no bounds, and at last she could con
troll herself no longer, and asked him
outright what he had dreamt whilst
sleeping under the beech.
Then the young man, who was q
mischievous rogue, and in very high
spirits about his pleasant dream, with
sly look and wink, said:
"Ah /! / had q most glorious dream,
which must como true but dare not
tell you what it was"


But she worried and teased him SC
that at last he drew his chair towards
her, and told her quiet gravcly:


~ dreamt I should marry the
daughter of the landlord of the Grown
Inn, and that after bit I should he.
come landlord myself!"


On hearing this the girl grew az
white as lily and then as red as rose,
and got up and walked into the house.
Then after some little time she came
again, and asked if he had really dreamt
it, and was quite in earnest.


"To be sure, to be sure" said he :
"she who appeared to me in the dream
was most certainly just like you."


Then the girl went again into the
house, and did not return. She walked
straight to her own room; and thoughts
flowed through her brain like water
that runneth apace. First one idea,
then another chak ed it away till back
came the first thoughts. There was no
end to the confusion. "He knows
nothing about the tree," she said to
herself, che dreamt it, and whether
wish it or no, it will surely come to
pass there's no possibility of chang
ing that And with this she went to
bed, and dreamt the whole night of the
young man. When she awoke the next
morning, she knew his face by heart,
so often had she seen it in her dreams
during the night. Aud he was very
good looking fellow too.


The young man had slept soundly on
his bed of straw. Dreaming Beech,
dream, and all he had said to the land.
lords daughter were alike forgotten.
He stood at the door of tine tap-room,
and was just shaking the landlord y
hand, and wishing him "good bye, u
when the girl entered. On seeing him
ready to start, IN indescribable feeling
came over her, and she could not LET
him CO.


"Father, she said, @sthe beer has
not yet been tapped, and the young
man has nothing to do; couldn't he
stay a day longer and earn his board
and lodging, and get something beside
for the journey home!"


The landlord had no objection to
make to this proposal, as he had Just
had his morning draught, and was in
the best of humor.


Somehow the beer-tappingprogressed
but slowly. Then came bottling the
wine, and when the cask was empty
and the bottles full, then the girl
thought he could help in the field
work, and when that was done there
were SO many things to be done in the
garden that no one ever thought o1
before. So week after week slipped
by, and every night she dreamt of him.
In the evenings she sat with him in the
arbor by the house, and when he told
her how roughly strangers had treated
him, and what hardships he had gone
through, it was really very singular,
but gnat or hair was sure to pet
into her eyes, so that she was Obliged
to wipe them with the corner of her
apron.


And SO it came to pass that at the
end of the year the young man Twas
still in the house. And then the floors
were we'll secured, and white sand and
fir twigs were strewn in all the rooms,
and the whole village had a holiday.
It was the wedding day of the young
journeyman and the innkeeper's daugll
ter and everybody rejoiccd ut 1t, ex
ccpt the few who sulked because they
were jealous, or pretended to he 80.
Not long after, the landlord of tho
Grown Inn was decidedly once more
in Il happy frame of mind. He had
been eating and drinking to hi.
hearts content, and sat in his arm
chair with his snuff box on his knee
Long he slept; aud Mt last, when the,
tried to awake him, they found he wa,
dead


| SO the young journeyman becam,
really landlord of tho Crown, as he sait
he would in Joke. And, indeed, all tia
he had dreamt under the beech tre
came true, for soon he had two Lowell,
children, one of whom he probabl,
took sometimes Oh his knee and fe;;
with spoon, aud possibly blew upo,
the food when it was too hot. Perbaps
tho other boy ran about the room will
the carrot; but the person who told M,
this tale did not happen to mentio,
this tnct, and forgot to ask hin
about it. But it must have happene.
50, because whatever one tlreamt un..e
the beech tree always did come true, t,
the very letter.


One day, about five years later, th,
young landlord, for such he now was
had come in, and was sitting in tn,
tap room, when his wife ran in ant
said to him


"Only fancy yesterday at noon on,
OF our mowers fell asleep under tn


Dreaming Beech, without knowing il
aud what do You think no dreamt
Why, that lie was immensely rich au,
only think who it was-Caspar, ol,
Caspar, who is half wittetl, and evcry
body pitics anil keeps only for charity