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& ' ay.-j1-.. r-^..-^. . ^' "' ' '" y;-g!',^,-"ii^i.jvnii-1 1 : ! . ... _.jx . i^.j-'- .l...j..j jllju ' '. 'j . , . ?.. '. l '.,<V -' -.j. i '.' ?.jlj _'. w .. jil'^ ....j. j 11 . !u'-j?l'l j.'.'.'...!"'1 .1" . ! * - - ' i.'.-i?'.. . j <i * ;v". " to rinsi: owv self iu? tuui:, and it mvst follow, as tmi: nmiiit tin: day, tiiol n.n'st not tiirn* i:i: falsi-: to any man." ; H.Y KOir r. A. THOMPSON. PICKKNS COURT HOUSE, S. (\ SATURDAY, OCTOHElt 17, 1H57. VOL IX NO. 14* . ^ ? .v1 jji>wlhivj v vh v.'*' ?jj. . c f<?, **.. ^.vv.a. ^ r?* esy n' rsj -pn c=>'?-=? '-> ?=? >c^frt=* ? ?v.m - ? y &LL2> FOIET1F1V. A Roquiem ?V ANN IK II BUS llUAIU'OtU). Loaves of tlio Autunm tiniol , 4 Oiinson <utd gulden, opalesque und brown, jjf To this now griivc-hoap slowly rustling down, Come, with yam* low, low ch!mo, And sing of ber who. Sprlng'uud Summer p&j>, In Iter odlm Autumn \reut to llerivtn at Just, Where thcro ia no mole chiinc. Flowers of the Autumn Q.'.y#! fimght, lingering roses, alters while ns sno\y, AikI purple violets, on the airs that go Sighing (holt* sud. snd loys-^ i on with your BwoHVprouth llowJier s'plrit ftilr, TliroUyh Life1* declining, Jcoi>lits fragrance Mire, Fresher, ntuid tluciiyi Rinlx of tlie Autumn eves! AVavbling your last sonp; ci*j j'O plume yoiiv WiKg For milder cHmutes, sfopjiwlilW, iVud s|h? > Where the louo willow grieves; 9 Toll of a next, aocuro' frorn storm and blast, . \V(ievo hor whito wing, t lie Hlni'lowy Valley past, I* Rests u(1(1,0r Heavenly Kavei". Stars of tho Autitibn nlghj! l-fownoil wnrdorH^n tho yampurts <>f (lie ftkies,' Willi your bright lunoes, holy my.ite-rios lipoji her grtfve-Hlonc write* Tell ol the Xkw N'a.mk alvuti lotl.e free In that fair laml boyond tho Silent Svu, Where<'!iri.it is l.ord and'hicfii ! <V . sT . I (!b'l of the Wlud nndjlaln! . He'od tinib^niul hurVvst, ^njnnu'v-tiiyi; ,und sleetSfrirkgji /oid wofut, lit 'L'liy Kingly feet, \ oort muiil uvir pniA.} Ilc)[> us to find her, Vrhero ?n.falling leaf. Nor p.'u-tlug bird. dpth toll of Deatli and (Jricfr? i NYliere Thou alone <!ont vcl'^n THE MASTER THIEF. ~ A l'urt.l.AU NOT.WKtilAN T.VJ.K. Once upon a tunc there whh n poui' cott tger who hud three nohh.- llo hod nothing to leave them when ho ilicjd, and no ?'i.! i- ... i 1 iimm v wiiu which m pin mem toHWV trade, so that lie Jul not know what to make of | them. At last ho said lie wotild give them leave fo t:ike anything each- likod. hoHt,' and to grt tvhitherrfocver they plpasodjj and he would go them a hit of the Way; and so he did. llo went with them till they eitme to a |ilaee where three, roads met, and there* k, eaeh of them elmse a road,'and thcii' father hade thorn good-bye and went hack home. I h:?\'e never hoard tell whiit 'became of the. ? two elder j hut as for tho yoilngest, he wont hoth far and long, a? you shall hotiv. ,^0 it fell out one night, na he. wart going through a <*reat wood, that fiueh had weathrA * . il ! . r. . . it wviiniiuK mm. it UlQV.mmtW SO that lie could so.areo keep Ins eyes open ; and in a trice, b'efoVe ho knew how it wrts, lie got h?:\vnaply4# utul coiddlmt ifitd oithor road or path. But as he wfcnt oir atid on", at hist ho saw a glimmering of light for oft in the wood. So ho thought lie. would try and get to tho light, and after u tin)c ho did rcacdi it. There it wasln ft large houfce, and tho hrO was blazing so brightly inside that he could tell tho folks hnd not gone to hod ; nnd so he' wc)it In, and sliw the old damebustliugflbout and minding th'c'houso. " Uood evening," snid the youth. "Good evening," said tho old dtuno. Tlutou ! yt'fi such foiil Wuthor out of uoora to-night,'*nai(l ho. " So it is," t aid'aho. " Can 1 get leavo to have a lit.nl ami slicltot hero to nightariked the/youth. " You'll j^of no good l.y nipping hero,'' HiiitrtUe old dame; "/or if the folk oouic homo and find ytm horo, they'll kill hoth mo and you.''' " What Kort of folk,> thon. nro.tlicy who live horc anked thfe youth. " Oh, rohhura ! And huc-U a had lot of them, too," n:iid tho old d;nm\ ' Th^y stole ino away when I was littlo, and havo * kept mc as tfieir honsekooporftVcr wince." ' Well, for all that-, J tliiuk I'll just go to lyod," said tho yo^th. > 'K'omo, what mnyf I'll not stir o\it to-night iivtmch weather," " * cry won, saiu tlio old dame y- ''but it' you dUy it wilt bo the worse Jot- you/* With, thatthcr youth got into a bed W:Uch ntood there, but. lie dared not go to ftleep, and vofy gooii after in come the robbertt ? ho. tbo ofididame told them hovV a utrfingu - fellow hnd conn) hi whom #bo hud nut boon able to get out of tho hoh?t> again. I- u Did you ?eo if ho hAd any money ?" - Mid *th6 robbers. rryjt'? [ J'&uoh a one a* he IirVs :ipnev ?" l thpold dame, "th? trtmper 1 "Why, if lie J. had clothes to his back, it. waw flfl luu^b 'w [. ho had." ' ^ Ve^.r[i <? I'hrtn the robb'U* bogu!>*f) kdk. atnoOg thom?elvcs what'they shotfid do with'Knij fithey tflymM lSl|V hhk outright, or what ol?o they slfOnld do.^ Meantime the youth pfctfup ami began to talk to. them, and to | wky'if tttdv did,?ot-ttftnt jiwirvmii B?> it ? might bo t^tnfc ho would be glad to ofttcr in AheiV* ?emc6< - * ? <,*?+' 1 *r V Oh/' you lmye tv&jaJud [ tWollow thoilradc thfifc *e follow y<>? can ;. very well got a pJuce hove." , > ' . ,< " Itffl nil one to mo vfm$ trade I foljyw," "--J*! the yb??th';- ffov When/fi lofVhomo, fntho? ^uvo nut loavf to tak<V w?Y trade 5 <}he??.".' "... ( I * #m <* Welly"1 hmf&JJou ( a i^ih-dc ^; Btcnl ? i 1 I 'Jwkod the. robbers h ? Vrv# ?& fl I 'SJSatSS^j.r^ l?? v"".i'' for-w <? iwhiu not* long toimvPfi Mint I # .&' mc *<?' ?.;>? I i ' MNdh& thcrij lived ?vji?h?. o lltlte way/Qfl' tyhq t|i"l th^ #?rt)xo?wa>|>?iq ?f *hpso iky \rnb to take to tin* tl?. -< ;had h^ntjd whiifc koi^a* ||rtM% totlw, *> tW-lJ swu.l to tho youth, that I: lui \\ ;r, ,.I (?> ift'oal the OS t'l-om % man hy Cho w.ly MyAh- , ? ', W-] * I it?y iiarm, tncy would give iiiiu leave to be ] their nerving man. Well! the youth net. off, and took with i him a pretty shoe with n silver huekle on it, wllieh lay about the house ; and iie put the shoo in the road along which the man was going with his ox ; and when he had done.that, he \yont into the wood and hid j himself under a hush. So when the man I cuine hy he saw the shoe at onco. I 14 That's a nice shoo," said he. "If 1 only had the follow to it, I'd tako it home with nu\ and perhaps L'd putuiyold dame I into iriirul liimmi' fiw " I' ' ~ n..-, v.. ...itv-. i-oi jruu iuu.ii know that 110 had an Old wife, so cross and snappish that it was not long between each tiiuo that kIic boxed his ears. lluV'then ho bethought him that he could do nothing with tho odd shoe unless ho had tho fellow to it; bo ho went on his way and let the shoe lie on the road. tl." i l- '' * . ..vii iiiv jvmbll IUUK ll]> tlic HllOC n*5(J made sill the haste lie ebuld to get before, the man by a short cut .through the wood, mid laid it down befbYe him in the road again. When the man came along with his uX, he got quite angry with himself for being so stupid ns to leave the fellow to thy shoe lying in the road instead of taking it wffli him : so he tied the ox to the fence, and said to himsQlf, "I may as well ruu back and pick Up the other, and then I'll have a pair of gobd shoes for my old dame, und so, perhaps, I'll get u kind word from | her onee more." {*m> hfl'upt off anil htthtcd up ami clown for the shoe. but n6 shpO did ho find j and at length ho had to go back with the one ho hail, l'ut, meanwhile, the youth had taken the ox and gone off with it; and when the J man catue and saw thai Ins ox was gone, I lie began to cry and bewail, lor he was a fla id that liift duine would kill him OUltight ] when she eamc to know that the ox was lost, lhit just then it eame across his i mind that he would'go homo and take the second ox, and drive it tu the town, arid not let the old dame know Anything about the mutter. Ho he did this, and went home and took the ox without hi.s dame's knowing it, and setoff with it to the town. Hut the robbers knew all about it, a??d they said to the youth, it' he could 'get this ox too, without the old mail's knowing itr ami without his doing him.any harm, he should be as good as any of them. If that were all, said the youth, ho did not think it a very hard thing. This time he frink will-. 5 ?* ? - " ?"u hung hiinsolf up under the arm-pits to a tree right in tqo man's way- the man camo along with his ox, and when' lie saw .such u sight hanging there hehAgan to feel u little, queer. " Well," s:iiJ he, " whatever heavy thoughts you hail who hare h'nhgriil ynuvself ,,rv (tmrn -U J,.. V-I-?1 - - ' ' Ay vim i, in; iiuijM.-u j you may nang for >vlint I care! 1 can't breathe life into yon again }'' and with that ho went on hiB way with hid.6x7- Down slipped tho youth fyoHi the free, und ran by a footpath, and ?j$l before tho man aud hung himself up right in his way ligaiit. " Ble.s$ lire !" said the man, "were you really fo heavy at heart that you hanged yourself up there-?or is it only a piece of witchcraft that I see before 1110 ? Ay, yo ! you may hang for all I care, whether you are a ghost or whatever you arc." So lie paAscd oil with his 6X. Now the youth did just as he lind done twico before; he jumped down from the 'tree, rati through the wood by a footpath, and humr himself uri rirrht, In t.hfi mnn'u wny again. JJnt when tho man saw thin sight for a third time, In* naicj to hunnelf: 14 Well! thfa is nn y&ly business 1' It i.s likely irow that they snould have been so hftivy ntr heart as to hang themselves, all flftsq tlir:6<?? 'No! T eafinot think thht it i?, anything cIko than a niece of witchcraft that I But. now I'll soon know for "S^fUip : it" the other two sire still hanging tiievo, it n'uiftt fee mdly so ; but if they ?vo notj then it can ltd nothing but witchcraft that !"aec."-\' * v;- \ W ' r' i Hb he tied up his o.i> and rati back to ftCo If the others were still really hangiug thorC.1 B(it while he went and peered up iilto all the (roes, the youth jumped down and took hln ox and r.ui otf with it. \Y hen the man eAfllfl hnf'V Illirl fniliwl lif" A? ,..,y rirv?. V/A JjUMV?, *115 mw* in n'yud plight, mid, iih any might -know j beirtgtold; be began to cry and beirttffr'jt,; bn't nt. fast hp Camfe to take it OAtuer/ ,;v " VMicro'n no other help for it than to gO home ami iftko the third ox without- Uty Stfa/S&n knowing nnd to try to drive a good bargain with Uj tso th jt I may got a got?dsuiuofinoacyfyriL." . ,,, goJijP \yoijt borije aud,.i<?t,on With tbe thud ?M duino upyor know a word hboiit <be tbo vob^e.rs, M?ey knew alRnfiw it, and they ?aid 'jri tll^ toutb tbflfc> if a'! Could atual this yp. an bo ud Htolon the otfrtK two. ,tT*oU \y> .should o uiastqr over the whole band, Well, tbo youth ; 8<|t off aw)^ jmuntb-. tbowppu i 81$ a.-; tUo Hi'.tfi canjft by,wItHyt>& tic act up a m iW* SOT,# in tho wood. Whou tho iuan heard that, yo>t can't tKi??k how gfyf ho wah, jot it s&MtopU thrttho know the Voic6 6f his biff bullock, ,dM th^tt thaijn.w ho HliouWifind>th M W up^ho th,..< oj., vul ran off froift the | *wl to hint for llinni m CHa ? a- ; ? . ; . t . .rv l * ' - -? ' * ?? fore he dared return home; for ho was y afraid lest his old clause should kill him j outright on the spot. { As for the rubbers, they were not very ( well pleased either, when they had to?own t that the youth was master over tl/e whole s band. So une day they thought, they would y try their Hands at somcthH;; which he was not man enough to do; and they set oil ' alt together, every man ?Jaek of them, and < left him alone at home. Now, the first thing that he did when they wore all clear t of the house, was to drive the oxen out to t the road, so that they might run back to 1 the man from whom they had stolen them ; > and right glad was he to p?ie them, as you ' may fancy. Next he took all the horses 1 which tho robbers bad, and loaded them t with the. best things he could lay his bands si nil-?irold and silver, nml ? line things; arid fchcu he bade the old dauie to 'greet the rubbers, when they came back, 1 arid to thaulv them for him, arid to say that j now he,Was setting out on his travels; and t that they would have hard work to find hhn again ; and with that oft'he started. t At'tei4 ft good bit be came to the road i along which he van going when he foil 1 among the robbers and when he got near home, and enuhl e his father's cottage, c ho put on a u. iform which he had found t among the clotoes he had iust taken from 1 tlio robbfera, and which was made just like c a general's. So ho drove up to the door 1 as if ho were any-other great man. After that he went in and asked if he eonld have 'J a lodging if No; that he couldn't at any prieo. " ' t " However, should 1 ho able." snid ?li^ * man, "to make room in my house .for sucli ft fine gentleman?1 ^ould scarce have a , t raj* to lie upon, and miserable rags too?" u " You were always a "stingy old hunk,w v said the youth, "and so yon are still, when <J you won't take your owi son in." ?. " What, you my Son !" said the man " Don't y?Mt knflfw mo -Again ? said the s youtli. Well, after a little while, he did s know him fignin. f s " But what have you heen turning your p hand to, that you have * made yourself so r great a mau in such a haste ysked the i man. I ".Oli, I'll soon tell you," said tlic youth. I ''Yimsir'l 1 might take any trade I chose, and so I bound myself apprentice to some f thieves and rohbers, and now I've served my time out, and ar.i become Master Thief." J } Now there lived a Squire close by his father's cottage, and he had such u great ' house, and such heaps of money, that he > could not tell how much he had. lie had ^ n daughter, too, and a smart and pretty y girl site was. Ho the Master Thief set his c heart upon haviinr her to wife i and bo tnbi v his father to go to tho {Squire and ask for li his daughter for him. t< "If no asks by what trnds I pet my living, you can .say I am ft Master Thief." b " I think you h ive lost your wits, said tl the man, " for you can't he in your right s> mind when you think of such nonsense. c No ! he had not lost his wits; his fatli- h ev must and should go up to the Squire's b and ask for his daughter. t; " Nay, but I'll toll you I daren't go to a the Squire and ho your spokesman; he e who is so rich, and has bo much money," tutid ?|>c man, t 'I Yes, there was no help for it, said the f( Master Thiefj he should go whether ho h ' wouV or nd; and if lie did not go by fair g means, lie would make him go by foul.:? d But the "man was still loth to goj so he i,stepped after htfln, and rubbed him down tl I with a good biroh etidcel, and kent on till tho nruVoame crying nnd sobbiug inside J u the Srjuirq'a floor. > u How, now, my man ? "NVhat'ailsyou ? a said tho Squire. ii flo ho told him the wholo ?tory; how ho a had throe sons wh<> setoff 0110 Coy, -ind a; how he had givcln them leave to go w.^th- li ewoever thoy wo\Ud, and to follow whatever d Calling they/chose. " And hero now .9 tho youngest como home, and has bcatou me r till ho mado mo come to .you and ask your la daughter for hiin to wife ; and he hid urn tl sAy, beside*/ that ho is a Mh&tor Thief." ai And'so liofft'l to crying aud sobbing again. I1 <( Never mind, my man,'' said tho Squire, T hmghing; iM ji,a* go back and tell him for r (tie* that ho muijt p'rovo his skill first. If tl ho c?ln Btoal tho roast from tho spit in the h kitchen on Sunday, while all tho household are after it, he ahall have my duughtor*? w Just po aud toll him thnt." Bo ho went bnek and told tfce youth, svho ru thought 'it would bo "an oasy, job. So ho w set'about ami caught tuvce b?vcs (dive, nud hi i)ut.theii\ into, a bag, and drpwrad hiumelf jti in soiuo old rag*, until, bo lookod poor arid filth y that it hjiido ono'e bcirt wiftod to sn goe; ana then bo stioaked into, the,p^ft?gc tl lit tho Hack door of the S<|uitf.\* houseon g< I Sunday nftorudon, with bin bag , juwtf jike fi< any other beggar-boy. .Hut tins Squire t I himself and all' bin housohold wefo'iu the J kitchen w&tehuig. the foiiat,. Just thuy tl ( *o?s doing thi^ the. youth lot one harof^o, ai imiu. ?ir9?5 wv HSR rSix sviusa ?n? mmmmi wo -b< yurd mi froftt of tho ho\we. ;i j I4 OK, juKt look nt that hnro v* ?tiil the w I folks in th^Jut^cu,, uM wo^j(t'or .ull^"-?i* J tl U run," Haul he; ?1\mc'h m m ' iu M;i'?l ; to tafrh a l'.aiol.y running III ?u<wi<l hare g?,, and, they ,*aw if Ju The &, ' ' ': ./ - * ' i- A * * # * * V %* * . 4k?,. . . > A ' *< ' ,va# no use. It was not lung before the ,'(tilth lot the third have gtf, unci it set off ind ran round and round the yard as the )ther* before it. Now, they saw it from he kitehen, and still thought it was the I lanio hare that kopt on tunning about, and ver6 all eager to be out after it. " Well, it is a line lutre," said the Sijnire; eonie let's sen if wo can't lay our hands >n it." So out he ran, and the rest with him? iway they all wont, the hare before, and hey after; so that it was rare fun to see. ISiit meantime th* youth took the roast and an oil with it; and where tho Suture trot ? roast for his dinner that (lay 1 don't enow; hut one tiling I know, > n;l that is, hat ho had no roast haro, though ho ran i ft or it till In; was both warm and wpary. Now it i-hanccd that the* Priest canto to linnet' that day, and when the Squire told J ?im what a trick thjii Master Thfof had j >layed him, ho mad? tuioli yamO of him ! hot there was no end to it. " For my part," said tho Priest., I lon't think how it could ever happen to no to bo made such u fool of by a fellow ike that." " Very well?only keep a sharp look iut," said the Squire ; "maybe he'll eouio o seo you before you know a word of it." Jut the. Priest stuck to his text?that he nci, awl made gum*; of the Squire becruse io bad bccu taken in. Later in the afternoon eaftie the Master pWcf, and wanted to bave the Squire's laughter, as he had given his word. But be Squire began to talk liiiu over, and aid, " Ob, you must first prove your skill , l:ltle nioro; (op what you did to-day was iO" great thing :?f? - all. Couldn't you tiiyr jdiiv ofl' n good trick on the I'll est, /ho is sitting in there, ai<d making game { ir.e for letting flUQ.li a fellow as you twist i:e round your thumb ?" , " Well, as for that it wouldn'j b-: hard." ! aid the .Master Thief. So he dressed him- j elf up like a bird, throw a groat white j lieot over his body,, took the wiugn of a j nose and tied theuj to his back, and so limbed up into a great maple which stood 11 the IVioftt's garden. And when the Viest came homo in the evening,,tl^e youth icgan to bawl out? " Father Lawrence ! Father Lawroiice!" ijr that was the Priest's naine. "Who is that calling iuc?" said tli<^ Most. "I am an angel," said the. Master Thief, sent from Ood to let you know that you nan or taken up alive into hoavrn for your Tcty's ?akc. Next Monday you uitisf hold ourwclf ready for tlio journey, for T shall onie .lien to fcteli you in a sack; and all our gold and your Hilver and all that you avo.of this world's goods, you must lay jgother in a heap in your dining-room." Well, Father Lawrence fell on his knees efore the angel, and thanked him j and lie very next day Jie preached a farewell lirinon, and expounded how there had onie down an angel into tlie big maple ju is garden, who had told him that ho was to 0 taken up alive into heaven lor his pioy's sake ; and he preached and made such touching discourse, that all who were at hurch wept, both young and old. So tho Monday after oame the Master 'liief like an angel again, atd the Priest ill on his knees and thanked him before e was put into the sack ; but when lie had ot him well in, the Master Thief drew and ragged him over stocks and stones. ''Ow ! ow !" groaned the Priest inside lie sack, "wherovei nre wo going?" "This is tho narrow way which leadeth nto the kingdom of heaven," said the laster Thief, who went on dragging him long till he had nearly broken every bone 1 his body. \t last he tumbled him into frmuo.linnun ll>?? ~ ? ' ^vvuw i/muii U^IUUUdU 141 11113 ??ljUU'Cj nd the gceuc began peeking and pinching iin with their bills, so that ho was. more on (I than ulive. "Now you nvc in the flames of purgatop, to bo cleansed and purified for lifeeverutin;*,*' ?aid thij Master Thief; and with Kit ho went his ivfty^Btia took all the gold id uilvtir, and fijJ tho fine things which the ricst hud laid together in his dining room, ho netft morning, when the goose-girl une to let the gCL.-io out, k1 e- hoard how ?e Priest lay in the sack and bemoaned imsolf iu the goose-house. Vlfi, heaven,'* name, who's thtfM, and hat ails vein ? " ?ho cried. V'(>!( !" sai<J the Pjicst, "if you aire an fron hc'uvco, do let we out, and lot ic return again to (forth, lor it in worse rr<: than in hpll. The Kttlo fiends keen inohing mo with tongs// "God lu'lp 11 Mj L am not an angel at all," ii! the girl as tdiolielped tfio Idlest out of "I onlv 1m(,1< after (lie Snuic-'s joflo, artd'ilkft' oiirirtgh thoy tito th'o littlo ^nd? which have boon pine! 'ng yo&r rcv^ te.)C0.'V9NV,%.-.; ,y; ' :>(!. rtfv1 groamid the Priest, "this is all mt Master I'lyofe dtMUgH. Ah ! my gold id Bilver, and my fipc elotluu" And he ^.,4 ^ ?-1 * * * * a... in* uuthmi, iinu iiupaioa Monifl miioIl}. rntu thai tjfiutigH tio had lu?>- his I iU? hII at Oftye. Now, Whtoi feh? Mi|ttlro ftnme tohfttfiltrAv had #60$ ivith tho Pri^at, and how he id Wift alotifct jintrow way, ami irtto .trgaWvyi he lunghodtUl he tv-tsli nigh #i>lU 10 ?i(,l?H. iint, who# the idafttcr rjiifti' imc ;it?U asked forjww daufltyteiyoa ho liud ] ami*e4, the S4uin( put him oft' Knd WwLif r - ** t 1 - ? M ' -Ljfi1 ? _ 3 stable, and on thom I will j>nt twelve grooms, one on cach. If you tire mo good :i thief as to steal the horses from under them, I'll see what I can do for you." ' Very well, I daresay I can do if," said the Master Thief; "but shall i really have your daughter if L can ?" "Yes, if you ein, I'll do what I can for you," said the Squire. So the Master Thief sot. off to n shop, and bought brandy enough to till two pocket flanks, and into one ot'th-mi he put a sleepy drink, but iuto the other only brandy.-? After that ho hired eleven men to lay in wait at night/, behind the Squire's stableyard ; and Just of all, for fair wofdd and a good bit of mjjliey' he borrowed a ragged gown and cloak from an old woman; and ?0, with a 51 a ft' in his hand and a bundle at his back, lie limped ou, an evening drew on, towards the .Squire's stable. Just aw he got there they were watering the horses for tho night-, and had their hands full of work. ''What the d 1 do yen wantsaid one.of the grooms to the old woman. "Oh! oh! hutetu ! it is so bitter cold,'' sail} she, and shivered, and shook, and made wry faces. ''.Hutetu ! it is so cold, a poor wretch may easily freeze to death and with that she fell to shivering and shaking Ogam. "Oh ! for the love of heaven, can T get leave to stay hero awhile, and sit inside the stable door':"' "To tho (I 1 with your leave," taid one. "Pnok yoursolf oft' this minute, for if the Squire sets his oyes 011 you, he'll lend us to :i pretty dabee." "Oh ! the poor old bag of honos," said another, who seemed to take pity on her, "the old hag may sit inside and welcomc; such a one as she ean do no harm." And the rest said, some she should stay, nnd some she shouldn't; but while they i were quarreling and minding the horses, she crept further and further into tho stable, till at last she sat herself behind the door; and when she had got so far, no one gavo any more hoed to her. * As the nijjht wore on tho men found it rather cold work to sit so .still find quiet on horseback. 4*ilvitetu ! it is so devilish cold,'' said one, and boat his arms crosswise. ' That it is," said another, "1 free/.e so, that my teeth chatter." "If we only had a uuid to chew." said a Well/ mere was one who had an ounce or two; so they shared it between them, tho' it wasn't much aftor all, that each got; so they chewed nud spat, and spat and chewed. This helped them somewhat; but in a little while they were just as bad as ever. "Hutetu I" said one, and shivered and shook. ' 1 lutein!" ?aid the old woman, and shis'<Sfi tlinJ nirfti'ti I" 1.^... 1 1 ' ? vv/ w???v vt.wij twkii id iin iii'iiit UUUltored. Then sho pulled out the flask with brandy iu it, and her hand shook so that tho spirit splashed about in the flask, and then sho took such a gnlph, that it wont "bop" iu her throat. "What is that you have got in your flask, old girl," said ono of the grooms. "Oh 1 it's only a drop of brandy, old man," said she. "Brandy ! Well, I nover ! T)o let me lniYO a drop," screamed the whole twolve, one after another. "Oh ! but it is such a little drop," mumbled the old woman, "it will not oven wet your mouths ronud." But thcyrautib and would have it; there was no help for it, and so sho nulled out the flask with the sleeping* drink in it, and put it to the first man's lips; then who shook mo more, hut guided the flask so that each, of them got what he wanted, {ind the twelfth hud not done drinking before the first sat and snored. Then the Master Thief threw off his beggar's rags, and took one groom after the other so softly off their horses, and set them astride on the beams between the stnljs; mid so he called his eleven men, anil rode off with the Squire's twelve horses. JJut when the Hqrtire got wp in the morning, hud went to look after hisgroomn, they had lust bo'ertm to coma tn: tmr\ somw* ? ' i> y ^ "" / .-*? ???.? vrt them fell to npurring tho beams Vritli their' Rpurii, till the splinters flow again, ami some tell oft", ami Dome still hung on, and sut tllero looking liko fools. "Ho!" ho!" said the Squiro; '.'I nee very well who hux been hero;' btit ns.for you, a pretty set or blockheads you must bo to fit bore am] lot the Master Thief steal tho horses fYom between your l<?ga." So they nil got a good leathoving, becattso tbev hod not kept a sharper look out. Further on in the day came the Maptov Thief again, uml told how hc.hi>d tnunaggU. tho matter, and asked for the Squlro'w daughter, as ho had promised j but the S'jttire gave Vint who hundred doUot* dotfo,. nnd said ho must do something better ktill: ^ "' you think now," said hty ''yon e$r> Bte,al tlie horde from \mder uie I auu rinf rirlinn aiv 1i?u unab mo Miivn | i / < < >, vi .s, 1 dtuunny I could," h-.iid tlto ,Mister Thief, t{?i I w<"*n verily suru of got (Itnjr jiCTif > ? #.? ] Wollw well, tho&<jTfiro what hf* oonlJ do ;. and h? told the M?.it<$r Thiuf a Uity When he w6nld be taking n ride oMi 1 Krout ctaTJavou whei'e ihoy drilled iUo troojKf. So tfie Muator Thief soon got hold of on old worn outbade a ware, a^d ?f-t to wtfvk, and mndc trace# tmcl coftarttf withes and l>rnoi.ft- twig*, and botfght ftn old hoggnrfv r:?rf r.nd a great Atjpwc thrtt M ityfri (fob r'''V'iv'"MJd V? 1 Hui IwiMmjutkrAjrOIra S*? 'llwjsmi * * r. * . *. * J ' hole, into which lie was going to .stick his liuger. No harm should happen to her ; j)U$ should only be driven about a little j u* u_ i t" > i ,.mu .i? uu uioiv mi* linger out more than once, site was to havo ten dollars more.?- ? | Tiicn iio llira^r a lot* rage and tatter* over himself, ami stuffed himsetf uut and put on a wig aud ? great beard of goat's hair, no that no One could know him again, and set off tor the common, where the Squiro had already been riding about a good bit. Whert he readied the place, he went along sosottly and slowly that he scarce made an inch ot way. Gee up! gee Up ! and.so ho went on a little ; then he stood stock still, aud so on a little again ; aud altogether tlni ^ pacc was so miserable that it never onuo caine into the Squire's head tlint fhl? mil.i I bo tlto Maxtor Thief. j At last iho Squire roflo right up to liitn | and askod if he hlfIT seen any one lurking ? | about in the wood thereabouts. j " So," said the llirtn, "I havUn't seen a soul.". "Ilarkyo, now," said the Squire, "ifyou liavc a mind to ride into the wood, and bunt abbht and see if you can fall upon any nno 1 " * ?uuui iin;ni, you snail n?VC t!l? j loan of my horse ah'd a shilling into tho i bargain, to drink my health, for your pains/ "1 don't sco how 1 can go," naid the man, wfor I nm going ton wedding with thi? cask of mead, which I have been to town to fetch, and here tho top has fallen out by tho way, and so I must go along, holding my linger in tho tap hole." 'Hide off," said tho Squire; "I'll look to your horse ?md cask." Well, on these term#, tho man M'an billing to go ; but he bogged the Squire to be | quick in putting his linger into tho tapI hole when he took his own out, and to mind i mil kooii if tlii"1" 1 1 r r .. V.....V m? iiu intuit; duck. ics, | the Squire would do the beat lie could ; j aud ho the Master Thief mounted the horn? I and rode off. Jhit time went by, and hour I after horn* passed, and still no one came back. At last the 8<|uirc grow weary of standing there with hi8 fingor in the tap hole, so he took it out. "Now 1 shall have ten dollars more!" 8cre.;uncd the old woman inside the cask ; and then the Squim saw at once how the land lay, and took himself off home ; but lie had not gone flir before they met him with a fresh horse, for the Master Thief had already been tirlii* ",'1 - to Hcml one. The day after he came to the Squire and j would have hin daughter, t\n he. hud given his word ; hut tho iStpiire put hiinoffagai?i with tiue words and gave him two huudrcd dollars, and said he must do one juorq luppterpieco. If ho euuld do that, he should have her. Well, well, the Master Thief thought he could do it, if he only knew what it was to be, "l)o von think." snwl tlm > - - ' '!> "?? ,'y? can htfeal tho sheet off our bed and the shift, off my wile's buck? Do you think you can do that V' "ltshfUI bo done," said the Master Thief. "I only wish I was as ?uvo of getting your daughter." So when night began to fall, the Mantef Thief went out and eiit down a thief who hung on the gallows, and threw him across his shoulders and tarried hhn off. Then he got a long laddol' and set it tip against I the Squire's bed-room window, and s0? climbed up, and kept the dead man ftp and \ down, just for all the world like one who ; was peeping in at the window* "ThaVw the Masfor Thief, old I.irs !" said tho Squire, and gave his wife a uudg# on the side. "Now set; if I don't shoot him, that's all." | So saying he took up a rifle which bo had laid at his bedside. | u No ! uo ! pray don't .shoot him after* I telling him he might come and try," said his wife. "Ifan't talk tome, for slnxit t AVill," said he; and so lie lay there mid niiuoct and niined; but as hmoii as the hoad earner uj) before the window, and lie saw a littltf of it, so soon was it down again, At last . % he thought he bad a .good aim ; "bung" Wept Ih'TffUiu down fell the dead body tp (be grortnd with a lieavV bnrtjfjf, and down went the Master Thief too ns fast ns be? could.' " Well," said tbc Squire, ''if is fjiiitf true that I am the chief :nngwtfat'Y>f thoKfl parts; but penile ftVe fftbd ot4talking, and :t Would be a boro jf Uh>j cfhrf.i? {ot &vc tbis dead man's body. I think the best thin** to lrK< dnftf i.s fb.it f sbonhl'go down mm Inlry bfiii-" ' 1 44 You must do as voirthink best, denr." said bis wife# Ho t ie Pi'jiritw got ont of bed imJ wcntdoWn stairs, and bo bad scarce put bis foot out of tbc dot* boforc tbc M?htet? Thief stole in, and went straight up * talcs to bV wife. y Why, dour, bnck alreadyjl' ^'d s',c/ for she thought Jt was her husband" Oil yea, I olily jjttni. put htm rnto a holo, and throw a iitthv. earth over hvoi. It is crtiotigh hat h# v* out of .right, for it is^uch a ba<| night out of door*}; by;?nd by J'U ! ! \ - !h?t jiu l let U?c have tho Khoet to wipe myself wa9 s9ty'X'dy ?anil 1 hnvo liiftdo m voTf in fmoh a m(? With ' . ' Sohc^otthcHhrot, ****** m Lt After A while ho said? |)q y<?o know T. am nfr,?id yon mijst lot nio hnvo your injjtit-shift too, for thq shcci WOM t no rn itMlf? that T eAn aoe," B'Kfttfivo Urn the sV.iH ,l?v tint n <>am* ?'<****'* hw inttff] hnt. ho 1trt(l'fr>r^)f^n to W'k tlih hrnisc n6 lie M* air(/ lgok to (hni brtqrc jfo pnwuwiTaflii ocpui * vywtm mt te & 4 *>* * . ' > * - .. ' - ;