Year: 1873

and in return told him all the village
gossip.


Suddenly she rose, leaned toward the
stranger, and said:


"Pray tell mewhat those three leaves
are, sticking out of your waistcoat?"


The young man looked down and
found the twig, with three leaves,
which had fallen upon him while he
slept. Itwas caught in the lap of his
waistcoat


" 1t must have fallen from the great
beech tree just outside the village" :" he
replied. 81 had n nap under it."


When he ceased speaking, she began
10 question him narrowly, till she had
iscertained beyond doubt that he had
really fallen asleep under the great
beech tree, and that, moreover, he knew
nothing of the wonderful power and
properties attached to the tree. For he
vas sly dog, and pretended to know
nothing.


As soon as she had done questioning.
'he drew him another ing of beer, and
PRESSED him to drink, telling him ali
he lovely things she had herself dream
d, and what a pity it was they had not
'ome true.


Just then the shepherd came from
he field, driving his sheep through the
yillage.


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


"Ah, yes he'll be sure to tell you
the beautiful dream" And then he
drove on his sheep.


When the girl found that she could
not learn anything about the dream, her
curiosity knew no bounds, and she ask
ed him outright what he had dreamt
while sleeping under the beech.


Then the young man, who was mis-
chievous rogue, and in very high spir-
its about his pleasant dream, with sly
look and wink said


"Ah I had most glorious dream,
which must come true but I dare not
tell you what it was"


But she worried and teased him so
that at last he drew his chair toward her
and told her quite gravely:


I" l dreamt should marry the daugh-
ter of the landlord of the Grown Inn,
and that after bit should become
landlord myself"


On hearing this the girl grew as white
a 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. She walked straight to her own
room, and thoughts flowed through her
brain like water that runneth apace
" He knows nothing about the tree" 3"
she said to herself, he dreamt it, and
whether [ wish it or not, it will surely
come to pass there is no possibility of
changing that" And with this she
went to bed. When she awoke the next
morning she knew his face by heart,
so often had she seen it in her dreams
during the night.


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 the tap-room,
and was just shaking the landlord S
hand, and wishing him goodbye, as the
girl entered. On seeing him ready to
start, an indescribable feeling came over
her, and she could not let him go.


Father" she said, "the 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 tapping progress
ed but slowly. Then came bottling the
vine, and when the cask was empty and
the bottles full, then the girl thought
ne could help in the field work, and
when that was finished there was SC
many things to be done in the garden
that no one ever dreamt of before. So
week after week slipped by, and every
ms Nv oliO VI lllul.


And 80 it came to pass that at the enc
If the year the young man was still al
The house. And then the floors were
we'll secured and white sand fir twig.
we're thrown in all the rooms, and th,
whole village had holiday. 1t was the
Wedding day of the young journeymar
md the innkeeper's daughter; anC
everybody rejoiced at it, except JUS
the few who sulked because they were
jealous, or pretended. to be.


Not long after, the landlord of the
Crown inn was decidedly once more il
a happy frame of mind. He had beer
eating and drinking to his hearts con
tent, and sat in his arm chair with his
snuff-box on his knee. Long he slept
and at last when they tried to wake him
they found he was dead.


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


Only fancy yesterday at noon on,
of our mowers fell asleep under tn,
Dreaming Beech, without knowing it
and what do you think he dreamt
Why, that he was immensely rich ant
only think who it was-Caspar, ole
Caspar, who is half-witted, and every
body pities and keeps him only fo
charity. What on earth will he do will
all his money!"


"Wife," laughed the husband, 'hov
can you believe such rubbish =? You,
sensible woman Just reflect for on,
moment. How is it possible that ire,
can foretell the future-let it be eve
such an old and beautiful tree ?''


The wife gazed at her husband will
wondering ewes. shook her head anf