Show THE PEASANT AND HIS DAUGHTER I 1 IT was on a cat cold v M baters diat toward ill tho middle 0 of the list century t hot ft a gen tic knock was WAB hoard heard at tho the fl floor car of a hut but zi tested tho the men tali ciui of oc chris sale in norway tho the im romona was waa an s li by tho master of the hovel slide and aly cavele e liked elter for the ibo night ho to vitality pita lity is willingly exercised la in choso wilf wile giona rc tho the stronger branger was waa welcomed to lo I 1 scat ecat on tho the bundle of cli arnom skills tant aft lay before tile the hearth is where here a fow few ember embe 1 I still shouldered ed slid and to a share 4 of A tho the nip por par prepared for tho the family the ibo only inmate families of ibo but were it a peas adoc tit named alno and his hi daughter tho the loti lati wr VM tie remar kahl A for her beauty and for s natural n grace far to whit m att might hays been looked for in that w wild ild ro region ifton tho the traveler after go gating I 1 g at al her f for or same rome morrion ts of his hia host if tho the fair maiden maidan were hie hh daughter sho Is replied the life old man sho she nn and my rillo riho pro my only treasures and one ODO of thorn them I 1 should not have bavo kept to long to ing if margaret would hays havo listened to any 0 of the suitors so he fain have bavo robbed mo me of at tier but though she nhe is now cow four and ivell twenty ty she eho fincers staying with her father to 19 A horn hom tier bor holo hole heart is devoted of the tra ieler drav drawing imi hu his cloak around him of cold and tit at her father command margaret threw conic addi additions tiona lo 10 loga s on tho the fire As she ebo fanned it t a bright blaze filled tho the little apartment and throw threw Ls a light on tho the pence of tho the lie lipp eared to be young find and handsome end and as aa under tho the kindly I 1 ol luence of tho the gansl warmth th to ID loosened hia has cloak oton fc nod and laid aside his bla hit hat erio eric pore chod that lo be wax wait 1 richly I arcs od rio ilia surprise that a person A much apparent rank and abound lo 10 wandering alone in that inclement sea iea till MU prevented hint him front from noticing tho the strong LT notion evinced by his hia as aa the eho caught fight of 0 hill feature with clasped hands handa and her eyes fixed on his hia lace face she seemed uncertain is whether to address him rho cho dow cow comer mado made a sign to its her as if to enjoin caution whatever its ita import sho she it and wrists with hearts rolling down her chocka seemed to ile bo addressing a silent prayer to heaven the supper consisting of a platter of boiled potatoes and a jug ot of cold water wax wait now placed on tho the table ct sly my honored guest paid aid eric it is useless usei I 1 ofte to apologize apologise apol ogise for our humble faro fare throughout these mountains you yet will trill find little better your are unnecessary my good friend returned tho the other ot many it a tune would mch each a supper am aa this L bavo arc licen been moro micro welcome to me ino than gold I 1 have known poverty and now that I 1 rally can call myself rich my greatest pleas pleasure turo is i to phoso who tho aro are as poor as I 1 once wait year shall bring you it price that As lit ill anni ly cap y 3 our hospitality taking 1 potato from tho the dinh deals ho be dropped a pearl dicarl in its ita dilloo As it ib rolled into the iho marso platter eno looked earnestly caru csUy at lie hu guert do you yoa know is vhal hat the incao are 9 eked th the 0 1 latteri alter dropping another and another of t tho bamo for men dio to the tha bottom of the mccau whore they remain till the gushing blood forces them to return to the surface faco for a moments breath to fain gain these the they aro are content to injure health Q and risk rink lifo tic they are pearls and of such euch price that a few of them will make a poor peasant as rich as his hia lord I 1 site ako them my good father they aro are yours youra in m requital of bour 3 our kindness to a Ira pont thou hear bear margaret beald til i ol 01 old u mau A phoui hose oyes eyes glistened with delight all ali these precious preci oua things aro are ours oura 1 I 1 wo lye anro ir a rich child I 1 1 I 1 hear father replied tho also praised to lo the almighty who vile has protected the travo traveler lerl I 1 A look ct intelligence pacaud between her rod and tho the new comer bu but erio is flaa as too much oc occupied cepica in coar tho the contO mpr aa lion 0 of f his hia now newly ly acini acquired r ed suro to ob some arvo it 61 anti and who lie aro are you teab lima deign io shador riches on a poor peasant pem saut to hi be to the 1 I 1 foar fear no have been too afee arco ile ho made a movement on if to throw himself at hm his feet but tho the other pros cut nt ing lure him baid aid I 1 I 1 you mistake ini atako my rank my good friend like yourself I 1 was arms boru a and my early years were bawd ou on the other ride aide of these motas mountains taints I 1 was a goatherd but while guarding my flock my thoughts atin tiered to things beyond my sphere many a beating I 1 got gob for suffering my charge to stray whilo I 1 watched tho the run iran and isears or eat cat pondering over a bunch of field flowers la in timo time my lovo love for plants planta became a passion I 1 noted their seas ionAl for bloss blossoming oming find and fell all the of their formation but at the ngo ago of eight eighteen ceo now ideas began to maglo with those that hall hitherto occupied ino inc in ray my wandering lifo life I 1 had become acquainted with tho the daughter of a peasant hose abado is as at al some pomo distance dia lanco from mine her beauty As aa far surpassed that of lor her companions as any thoughts thought acro cro elevated above those of the opherd ands amoo whom my lot v as coat 1 lot cd her bod and mho bore tho the samo same unco as A your daughter returned my affection but tier youth and my poverty forbade the hope blips list hor bar father would consent to our mar ainge I 1 proposed to acal acack my fortune else so here and with many lean nod and and aad tore fore to fc dings she consented to my departure jt at that timo time I 1 fancied that dreams of on rit lung her alono alone prompted ray my wish to r roam oara for I 1 have since known that ambi t lion mingled with my zeal ical for her welfare E ean A in IB our oar remote mountains monn tams stories nore ore related of those who having visited other lands had returned homo home enriched anti and I 1 bull bulleted eved I 1 had only to try my fortune to be equally successful margaret promised to bo be faithful till my return I 1 11 and ou ell may bo be elite she aho bum baa kept her pro mase interrupted tho like peas dough ar r tho the at ranger looked tenderly at tier her an aa bf be I 1 shall not dwell elwell on tho the hard ships attila that a poor lad all without friends or money was as likely to encounter yet I 1 must not dot be ungrateful I 1 was waa dot quite without money for round my neck hung bung a small email balter coin coil of no groat great value but bill to have bavo helped mo me in my necos ally it had been placed there by roy mar garet and not for worlds would I 1 have barq arlod with jb it it hangs banga there now A again Q cain ho he paused overcome by omo memo secret motion emotion or interrupted by the bolso ot of it a violent torm storm which hod had commenced since bince his hia arrival tho the ram rain and elect bleat beat fun bously against tho the windows and the tb wind blow blew to tn gnats that shook tho the little tone meet to ila if foundations thou died away in ind and moana downs that mounded bounded liko like tit tho voices of complaining it is ia a fearful night mid ho be tit nt length unit and I 1 ought to bo be doubly thankful that I 1 am with you ray my good friends erio eric plaid paid little attention to what wax wait aid for avarico avarice a passion till the then ua oil aft known it w to him had bad taken possession of his bla into buind that while recounting his hia history his bis guest discontinued dropping the pearls bo be said ald surely on havo have not given mo me all 3 our treasures I 1 11 you havo love iho last ED my y friend sold eald tho the traveler thin ahw indeed I 1 havo have added ho he oz a small rod red coma and a 11 owing a string of the afine coolly mamorl ns 6 but it is a necklace for my betrothed tro thed the old peasant seemed each moment to bacomo kunou uneasy y it ib is u hardly bate he bo asoula muttered tioren to travel with such buch valuable property but of coarse you are armed I 1 noillia NoIl oi lio returned tho other against whom should I 1 one arm myself against out our good norwegian peasants and yet those pearls pearla sald said tho ILA old man 1 those choso is pearls returned tho the other aro are tho the least part of my riches tho the contents of my pocketbook pocket book uio tire a hundred timo times more valuably ablo A hundred times jimca repeated eric looking lo ground round and ho bis bi knife H approached the and tand in trying if to open it broko broke ono one of the in dinall pence of tho the wind fair bronea g h ill ibo 0 aperture with a thrill shrill nuino noise utah startled tho lra tra clor seler and margaret Al argaret f alu their mat to it la is tho the voice of tho the demon of tit th term Is said naia lne staring blaring wildly nebout him I 1 it 16 is iii tho the wind dimling through tho the broken cusa tho the st strauther out outgoing outdoing doing no joe composed my good mcca ady lou iu ot oi handle your knife had it been th ibo demon you feared it W WM iby your our would no more have bavo rl availed a bi 1 than tho the tahid ind itself no ile low hang ng his hiji clook cloak before tho the broken window nud and rem umed ble story 11 sometimes working laging lc ging it was many weeks before I 1 ar bavei nn at t s stockholm tock holm tho the capital once reached I 1 fancied my difficulties ovir over AIM I 1 they were wen but beginning diming be etwas it wa 1 them father eric that on oft many a long night when I 1 joy iny sleepless from hunger such buch a supper na As yours your is would indeed have bovo be acon on precious to ino inc at al my iny for t kiino A learned man of aho bamo of limaxes employed mo me to execute some for hint him my diligence pleased urn him an and he bo took oak mo me into his 1 I round found that liko myself luy ho he had a solon for lion era andrias and v 01 then employed in mg jug those of our northern rc seeing the iho at attention with v shoich aich I 1 1 observed bi urn ho he asked mo me somo some mid and emboldened ened by lie bia condescension I 1 showed allowed him a of dried plants I 1 hall brought with mo me from no norway there were some among thorn them that ho he had not been able to F pio roa ouro ture end tile circumstance gave liim him so BO much that ho interested him if in my story I 1 told him of my lovo love 10 for to and tho the bobon with which I 1 had bal loft home hoino and my kind master for ever honored mored Iff bo be his hia name I 1 fram that mo me moat became my iny friend by his advice I 1 learned find wn thim and I 1 then ro massed for two yearn in by bouno ill 10 runn my at the ead or of that limo ho c recommended mo me to tho the captain of to A I 1 easel bound for alo laland of 0 arrived on tho the very day that tho the pearl fishery commenced 1110 Ced it wasa ans ft beautiful morning in antho abo month of february and tho the waters of 0 con dutchy biar in tho the all though mill icum of precious we acro 0 floating orting II on do their surface tho the shora irm covered with hold crowded with inmates of biery lami and till of every region jowel lots and merchants wore were driving their bar gains diina at the ory cry edge of the sea MCA aber acs ics still and daughters of the ibo pearl earl bothers erected with range tho the return of the b suo sua cc catl fal barks I 1 high u acro cros gaily docked out with jingo flosa oud and crowds preened round the fortunate fortun nto divers to barter for their i rellous freight among the crowd an old indian woman I 1 attracted my otton tion sho she was wall poorly clad and I 1 baw aw lor lee weep ing ns abo hbo be gazed IM uio animated Rs aluad ler my interpreter in fomin we ue il s it few months previously she bho bail bad lost both husband and eon who it II was waa cup bup posted posed hall had been devoured by some of tho the monstrous gah bali that are so RO often fatal to the livers divers sinco since that thai timo time tho the poor woman wn nas thought to have become for ebo 2110 wandered about lop io cating peaLing continually 1 had they but returned that day they would list hao a boon been rich for lifo life I 1 an AJ my interpreter concluded his hia tale tho the aubret subject of it approached us and ad dressed him fin I 1 sho she is quito quite road mail ho he con continued contic tim and inflate that her husband bad discovered a secret by tit which bich he be could causo pearls to grow in tho the common oyster sly imagination had bad beon greatly ex cilc oiled d by tile tho tonicity nolly of tho the scone and all that night I 1 dreamed of nothing else the indian womans comans assertions that her hus hue band could grow pearls recurred to my mind os aa a possibility and ba I 1 formerly d nonorio nono rit so BO I 1 now studied pearls for years I 1 labored to discover tho the acciel at length I 1 succeeded and hero ho he added taking out a pocketbook book is in what 1 hill ill purchase puro baso mo me lands landa castlow cantles cast cant loa les and title i but tint I 1 have bavo returned to oak my morita ret if she bho will accompany mo me to tho the cone try r to ft hero our riches must ile bo gained lie wall waa again dent cleat the storm raged noro furiously than before the poa fical anuta lauts ing laughter lAor had bad uok suck on her knees find with lands aud and eyes cyca rained seemed lost loot lu in prayer what aro are you d doing clog margaret SI argaret mid anid eno angrily chooro it a better moment for j our devotions our guest Is 19 tired make j our bed hero m chilo I 1 file I 1 conduct lf bun 0 a the sleeping Ble room tho the traveler cast ono one look of tenderness at tile maiden and then followed bin host nto into tho the next apart mout mrgaret remained sitting bitting by tho the fire cje liu ill am adio foil fell asleep somo some timo time lind ola peed when from a disturbed dream tho she taw her father with it lantern in his hib sand land examining a paper packet on which wait raj a loran seal fical at the tamo samist moment jobs aho heard a moan an and 1 I berrido berrs her name Do repeated ia n fault faint voice tho the old man maa turned find met rufi daughters eyes fixed on hun bun spring mg jig from her scat meat elio bho exclaimed I father I 1 what ilenna that knife gra gm boua dun god gall I 1 blood is dropping front from the ibo aado 1 hero Is ia tho the stronger fl 11 be silent I 1 ho he said eaid 11 wo IVA ire rich lands cant canales cantles les ditlea all ill now nov bo be nm its I 1 merciful hatco 1 cried she shel a my boar I 1 am tho the margaret of whom he bo broko without attending to her words erie eric tore lore pen tho the packet it contained nothing out a written paper I 1 la Is this tho the a anro to ho he talked of T sald aid ho be to waa IVAS it for hill au I 1 killed him bun 11 killed him I 1 A shrieked his daughter sm her lover deathly pole pale staggered Btag stag gored into tho the room and sank tit fit her feet terror truck druck at what bo be supposed to bo be tho the ghost if A hafl victim eric dropped the vapor paper and rushed from tho the cottage tho the dying man tried to speak but tho the murderers knife had bad struck too truly and blood choked his hi utterance I 1 was tho the only A ord she could make out as she nho supported him in hor her arms with alast |