Show daddy s bedtime story why the sea Is salt VH mea the mm man ind and the fairy mill T tins nas at the seashore that daddy told this story jack and evelyn wanted I 1 IT to know what made the seas so still salt so that evening daddy told them once upon a time he said there was a man who had the good fo fortune r to help a fairy out of trouble of course the fairy was very thankful and to show his bis gratitude he be gave to the he man a fairy mill which would grind anything he wished all he had to say was grind mill to make it stop atop grinding be had to say certain magic words which the fairy taught him the mill was a small one which could be carried from place to place wherever its owl owner er wished would it grind out anything the man wished daddy money and houses and clothes and everything asked jack yes son said daddy id like to have a mill like that said jack well daddy went on the man used the mill to make him rich ile etc ground out with it houses and lands and money so be became the richest man in the world this lucky man bad a friend who was a sea captain he was also a dealer in salt that Is it was his business to buy and sell salt in those days there was not so much salt in the world as there here Is now and it was waa quite dear one day the rich man got to talking with his friend and w when hen the captain asked him where he got all his riches lie he told himbe hambe story of the wonderful faires mill let me borrow this fairy mill said the captain 11 1 I will use oge it to grind out salt when I 1 have enough to fill my ship I 1 will return it to you the irbe alch rickman man made the merchant promise to return the mill and then lent it ft to him lie he was so glad to get it and so eager to betit to work that be quite forgot to ask the owner of the mill how to make it stop that la in be lea learned arned how to start it but not how bow to stop it the owner of the mill also forgot to tell him the magic words which made the mill stop the captain took the mill aboard ship and add said ald to it ft still grind salt immediately the mill began to grind out oril salt rt at such a rate that the bold of the ship was soon it but soon there was too much salt for the man did not know how to make the mill stop then the ship became filled so that the captain and his men had bad to leave it for there was no room tor for them in a short time the shipway ship was so overloaded with salt that it sank to the bottom of the sea taking the mill with it there it ic icsis ts to this day grinding out salt and that Is why the water of the sea Is 0 so s o sail all |