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Show ' $ "1 nr(o)iMi Hi inr iKoTTri By GEORGENE FAULKNER. fVVJA?jjJ5TjjSp5? XCE upon a time ftf" I here was a good rf.oO $ V VjV woman and she J1j3 ftjl Ave pics, but tfiuj. when she took them MVlS??7) '",nl tnc uv'(;n s'le JJylfi found the crusts fekdsSMvfNi wc,' li,'ri1 to her daughter, "Pul the pins on. tin.' shelf and by and by llioy will come ngain." Xow, bIio meant that the crusts would get soft if the pies stood for a time. The Kii'l took the pies into the pantry and put them in a row oil the shelf. As' she looked at them she thought how good I Ik .v would taste. "Well, if those pieu will eome aaln." she said to herself, " may as wed on;, iinn now," and so she ate them hII. lirst ,-uid last. At supper time the woman said: "Go : and ko; one of the pies. I am jure they ; have cine aiiain by ihis tiuie." The ilautdirer went lo the pantry and there were the live pie plates, just as she i bad li-f! ihem empty I Then she went baek to her mother and ; said: No. they haven't come again."' i ""e!l. come a.L.raiu or uol. I will have i my supper." and the old woman i r:,t :o the pantry. "lint how can you have "ne when they 1 have tot eome ecaiuV" said the girl. i 'T iviti ami I will," (he woman answered. ? "I will oat Ihe host one for my supper." I "Host or worse," the daiiKhler said. "I I he ve ea i.'ii them all." The old woman" was so astonished that. ' ! f-ripit all alNxit her snpr. Khe ear-ri ear-ri d her spinning in Ihe doorway and she t . .t and ,iv,.r: "My riaui:ht-r has eaten five, (ivo pins , I. .day: - . My daughter ha-; eaiei, live, live lies teday:" -"v. the king'a enming dov-n the road s ami he heard ihe woman siiigint:, nml said: i "M. 'ii. id v'oman, what vei-e you siniringV" i .iw. ihe old woman ias ashamed of s her -ieMi- r'aiihier. she anu insiead: "My d iii'd:iei' has -pun five, five skeins i today! My daughter has spun five, five skeins today .'" "What!'" exclaimed the king. "How amazing! I never heard of anyone who could do that!" Then he said: "My good woman. I am in search of au industrious woman for a wife, and I would like to . marry your daughter. For eleven months I will give her all the tine clothes she wants to wear, and all the food she can eat, but the twelfth month she must spin five skeins every day or off will go her head." "All right." said the woman, for she thought, "What a grand marriage Ihis will be, and as for the five skeins, by that time he wdll have forgotten it." The king never said a word about the five skeins, and as the time passed by Ihe girl hoped he had forgotten it, but the last day of the last month he look her into a little room she had never seen before, with nothing in it but a spinning wheel and a ilool, and he said: "Xow, my dear, here you must slay all day tomorrow, with some food and some flax, and if you have not kept your word and spun five skeins by night your head will go olT." Well, the girl was so frightened that ihe did not know what lo do, for she had ilways been lazy and did not: know how to ?pin. so, she sat down on n stool and began to cry. My, how she did cry ! However, nil of a sudden she heard a inoek ! knock ! knocking low down on the loor. She opened the door, and what do on think she saw! Why. there stood an igly litlle black thing with a long black ail. lie looked at her and said: "What are i on crying ahoul ?" So she told him all about the pies and he skeins and everything. "1 will come to your window every miming and get ihe (lax and bring it hack ill spun nt night." said the visitor. "What's your pay".'" said she. lie looked H her out of the corner of his eyes and aid: "I vill give you Ihree guesses every light to guess my name, and if yon have tol guessed it before Ihe nmnth is up you hall he mine." Well, she thoiiL'bl vhc could surely guess sv I before the mouth was over, so she said: hi All right. 1 agree. "There is ihe flax," he said, "and if it is not span this night, off goes your head." "Very well: it is a bargain," he an-'Cicd. an-'Cicd. and lie twisted ami twisted his long ack tail. The nexl day I be king pu! her into tip; room, and there was the day's fcod and the Max. "Now. there is the Jinx," said he, "and if that Is not -pun this night off goes your head.'" As soon as the king had g there eaiue tbe knock! knocking against the window. She opened It and sure enough there was the little blaek thing silling on the ledge. r --' nwi i.i "Where's the flax?" lie atbi :t She gave it to him ami in lln- returned it all beautifully spin vour flax," he said. "Now, mi ', name?' "Is it Bill?' she asked. "Xo, it is not," said he, ai:d-' and twdrled his tail. "Is it Xed?" . "No!" "Well, is it Mark?" 7 "No It is not!" and he IH J" ' When her husband came in i the tive skeins. Finally it. came to the Its' ! The poor girl was so frigM' , did not knot' what to do. H'-- :-, heard the king coming to H r when he came in and saw He J" : he was in a happj" h"nlir- "AVhen I was out lnmtir.c - : ! said, "I saw the funniest fl?l! near an old chalk pit .anrt U miecrest htnntuiug and hiiffiti"' from the pit. so I got don fr;1 '' :" and crept over to the ill 'r ' a sound and there I siff tbe r . looking little blaek thing '; -i tail and he was sitting at s wheel and spinning so fast ' scarcely see Ihe wheel, and a'1- I he sang over mid over again: : -Xlminj", ulinniy not: .. Jly name is Torn Tit T'A , When the girl heard ltl happy that, she laughed, too. t not say a word. ... The next day the lot1'' : looked very ugly when ho -; .,r?.;; (lax. and when night r' .. 1 . knocking on the window .,; Hie window anil in he caiof'-. ,Ige. He was grlnnl f'"B :. ; ,d was twirling and tv.rln) ,-. "What's my name?" hea' ing i-oice. ., p-. ' "Is It Solomon.' sl" ,., be very much friitHU"'1-"No. friitHU"'1-"No. It is not." "Well, Is It ZehedeeT' , -No, it Is not." Then b. twirled ,and Iwirle.I his t.. woman!" he said. "1" . j IT vo are mine." and he strdi ugly black hands at "-'''' - She backed away a - , ,.t looking at bin, niul " him, she said: "Xluiiuy. iu""-v "';, T,-:' '.I, Vour .mm. r''" ,Ll- We,,, when that , f he gave an nn.l A into the dark ami I"' !; seen since. K;lirv 1" CKelold froni Joseph .Inool'S.) |
