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had been shaken otl‘ them bv the wind,
and that there was no net . 'ity for her
to raise her umbrella.
Conicsy hastened to the shops and
made her purchases, and she would soul)
have been at home igain it‘ she had not
met an old woman-the most iiivettii-ate
ssip in the city-who inquired particu-
gaorly about her health. her shop, diet,
business, gains and losses, and then iii-
sisted on walking with her towards
ome.
Coiiiesy consented, seeing no other
way ofgetting rid of her. But she held
the umbrella on the side turthe l'roin
her companion, and kept the ring cou- ,
cez ed
As the two trudged on side by side,
their conversation turned on their own
nee-exsities and wisl'lt-,5.
Old Wysie ecntided to (Joiiiesy her
longing to travel, that she iiiiglit see all
the nations of the earth, and know the
private a 'aiis cl‘ every body
“That might be, if the d
were not over," replied (loin: y. “'l‘lit!ll
‘ , aiitud carpet,
to the
most
“ I should etter, vsie
‘all
“to have the enchanted umbrella, which
one could carry all over the world with-
out being seen by anybody.
secrets one could learn I"
“l ucv
or he wl of such an umbrella,”
s-3, . - ely able to refrain
L: lu-is on the spot.
' rwul of it in an old book at
my house,’ rt-plied her i iend. " Will
you coine in and borrow it?"
“Not twilight. l must go home. ‘VD
are just at your hotise: and see. it is Inc-
ginnuiu to rain .
utiitther your skirts it‘
“Let me r
I up, then,
C your uln-
o, 0; Icannot think of troubling
you. (;‘cod-iiiglit,” said omesy.
“Ht)l)l'l-l]lg‘llT.," answered the gossip,
opening her door.
But when, liavin-.1 enters-ll her house,
she looked out again, llotnosy had disap-
pearcd.
“Saw you ever such a pace for a W0-
man of her ye-ai's?" . ked of the
girl who came to take hoi basket. “I
spoke to her, and turned to open the
door, and she Wzls gone! hook me up
the "l'altrs ol‘ )I:i<.:ic' to-iiiorrow, to lend
her. 'l‘lie old simpleton believes every
one ot'thein."
o. lylIll.',‘, she shut the door, leaving
Joint y trembling with indignatimi at
her iieit:lthor‘s hypocrisy, and delight at
finding that sl - was invisible.
She had rais ll her umbrella
turned, but had stood oii the
and heard every word.
iVheii the door closed she liastened
away, graspiiig the umbrella tiglitly,
andslipping her thumb through the ring
on its Iiandle.
As she did so, the street, which Iiad
been almost rlcsettod, w suddenly
thruiigt-.d with persons liu lll'.' toward
the great bridge that led out of the city.
She was sz-nncwliat alarmed at their sini-
den a :e ncc, ut as her way layin
the same direction she liastencul on with
them, keep II’ as close as possible to the
houses, ant. intending to slip away from
the crowd as soon as she reached her
own street.
But she was swept past it, and, aiter
several vain efforts to ttirn back, resign-
ed herself to being curried onward.
Her companions walked rapidly, their
footfalls sounduig like tho rustle of dead
leaves on the paveuieiit, and their voices
like the murmur of the rain. They paid
no attention to one another, but muttered
to theinsclvos as they walked.
At length, they passed the great
bridge, and spread tlieniselves over the
open fields, now l':iintly li<,;hte(l by the
moon shiiiiii tl)l'UIl‘:ll a torn cloud.
As soon as possilile, (‘miiesy disen-
l'rom the crowd, and
‘ a lll" n-lni li.
l.lEHll-
bled, and at lengtlislic sank down on
the grass, unable to stand anotlier nio-
men
As her eyes became acciistoiucd to the
E
us Mysie
doorstep
dim light, she forgot her wt-arincss, in ,
wiiteliing the seeiie before her.
The iiiultitude were dispersed ah-nit
the lields, as it" seareliiiu; tor soinetliiiug,
and seeincd unconscious of conipanioii-
hi
Vl’ith sad crforbiddiiitg l':u:cs,witli eyes
bent on the ground. ainl [L-ct stiiiiibling
as they went, they wandered about.
smnetiiims stoopiin: eagerly to thrust
the sudden izrass ltSllll(5, or peer at stinks
or stones, or to listen with oar close to
r .
W; at inagic ,
Then what I
-4‘-:79-:GOLDEN DAYS2-e>“%:‘-
[the earth, as it seeking for some sign
which was not given.
1 As the mysterious search went on,
Cuinesy’s astonished eyes recognized
manv of the melancholy wanderers. The
Lord Treasurers thin face peered at the
‘ earth side by side with that of the old
, iuan who swept the street-crossing in
1 front of the ducal palace; the secretary's
l haughty wife, and t e tish-woman who
‘ supplied her table, pulled at the same
tut't of grass without seeing each other.
1 There were handsome ladies in trailing
lsatin dresses, and haggard women in
trags. There were men and women or‘
1 everv calling and every country. Even
lchildren were there, with eager yet
l gloomy faces. '
, How long she watched them Comesy
could not tell. She cowered beside the
thorn-bush, trembling with cold and
‘ terror, for, although no one noticed her,
, she felt as it‘ the siglit of oneof those
inelanclioly faces looking into hers
would kill her.
At loiiggtli the city bell struck mid-
‘ night. With its last stroke, a deep sigh,
as it‘ every heart had breathed out its
sorrow at om ,sounded across the fields,
and then the multitude turned toward
the city, rushed by the terriiied woman,
and disappeared.
Coniesy was alone, with the scared
’ white ftlL‘eUl' the moon lookiii at her.
She rose with ditliculty from the craiupcd
posture, and was about to leave the spot,
when it mocking laugh rang out of the
bushes, and a dozen tiny creatures made
their appearance on the earth before her. 1
They were smaller than the smallest‘
baby, though their faces might have
been a hundred years old, so wrinkled
were they, and socuiiniiig and malig-
nant in expression.
They ran about clapping their hands 1
a perloriniiig all 5 ‘cs.
’l‘liou;.;li they came so near Comesy that '
sh could easily have touched them,
they a pearecl not to see her. They
went briskly from place to place, stoop-
llllg now and then, as if to pick up seine-
t iin 4
Atgleiigtli they gathered around a low,
flat stone, which Coinesy had often no-
ticed in her walks across the field, and
began to sing the words ofa spell.
As they sang, the rock parted through
the middle, the halves slowly moving
away from each other, as if on pivots,
and disclosing acavern, into which the
creatures descended.
And now the maaiiiiig of what she
had seen tlaslied upon (‘nine-sy. These
were the treasure-lieapers, and the ser-
rowful, wandering multitude were the
mortals who sought their hidiiig-places
in vain. ‘
She went cautiously l‘orward,and peer-
ing into the opening saw the llashin of
gems and the gleam ol' gold far he cw
her, and smelled the fragrance of spices
‘ more precious than go r .
The trc surt heapers were oiiig slow-
lly down a .-it I‘( so encruste with dia-
‘ nionrls, and with a flutter of covotous
joy (Joine V ‘as prcpariiig to descend,
, when the distant crowing ofa cock caiiie
,f'aintly over the liolds. There was a
, laugh from the cavern, and the rock slid
‘ swiftly and sinootlilyback into its place.
l In vain did Coinesy walk around it
l and over it, staiiipiiig with her feet and
l
.
l
l
1
5
)icking with her lingers to open it. It
was hard and cold and solid.
The clouds rolled over the moon", the
wind began to blow and the rain to fall.
Faint and shivering, Coincsy turned
away last, and limped slowly home,
‘ tliaiikful that the magic umbrella made
her iiivisihle.
Too weary to undress, she threw her-
self on her bed and slept till the sun,
shining across her eyes through a hole in
t; the sh utter. awoke her.
All that had passed would have seein-
ed like a dream it" it had not been for
l lil‘l" soiled clothingand the ina;:,io um-,
hrella, which lay w tiereshe had dropped
it, failed and wrinkled. She picked it
up, and having wiped it carefully, laid it
may.
‘ All day she sat idle, indulging in gold-
on dreams. The greed of wealth was
‘ fairly roused in her soul, and she longed
for night to come, that she might go tt
the iiclrls again and try to enter the
cavern of ihv treasure-lieapers.
-4:
at
her away.
day on which the straiiger was to claim
l his property, and tumloz herself ready to
go out car y.
But when near sunset, overcouie with
1 wearincw, she sat nodding in her chair, ,
I his voice aroused her. SLIO started up ,
1
: not thought to rt-turn it.
'3
and saw him looking sternly at her. Her
first impulse w s to shut the door in his
face, but he waved his hand and she be-
cauie powerless. Obeying his gesture,
shetook the umbrella from its hiding-
place and gave it to him in silence.
“ You need not tell me anything,” he
said, after looking at it. “ I know what
on have seen, and can guess what you
ave wished. Miserable woman! would
you indeed become like those who wan-
der at night, slaves to the miser's pas-
sion ?"
“ I do not wish to be a iuiser,” answer-
ed Comesy. “And tliough there may
have been a miser or two ainong those I
saw, at I am sure that inanyol'theni
were goodly folk."
“ You know not what you say," replied
the stranger. “ livery soul that permits
the ;:revtl of‘ wealth to heemne his inas-
ter-passioii is a iiliser.
wealth lor himself, and
humanity peri
covets. If you could have read in those
faces the words and deeds that -ti
them, you would have sliu(lden,d.
ion is gt-owiiigi: in you.
you, like the uiiliappy oi
wander ho 301 -y in spiiit iii iv, V
body is wrapped in slumber? Would
you never know peace ‘I If so, cultivate
the look that is growin ‘ p
for it is the Sign of a wealtli-bound and
withered heart.”
L‘
E
Ashe finished s eaking, he took the ‘
trembling woman iy the hand and led
her to the lookiiig-glass behind herdoor.
'l‘lien raising the inagic tiiiibrella, he
held it over her head. She started back
in horror. The dreary, hopeless look of
the sad multitude was in her eyes, and
beside her was the ci'al'ty, malicious face
of a trcasui'e-lieaper, lauqliiiig as he tivd
her hands; with a thread of gold, while
pale, hungry children looked at her im-
ploriiiglv.
“Tak away your magic gold I" cried
Coinesy, running to the jar where she
had stored her earnin-,:s. " want none
or‘ it! Take it, and take the curse it has
hroiiglit! Leave meaquivt heart and
ers 0l'the poor. ’l‘liey are better
(I H
st t
in penitence
and tll1lllkS;,'lVllIj;, hm next to throw
sonic crumlis to the liiiiigijv sparrows on
the sitlt-walk. 'l‘her( W . no litiiiian be-
in;: man, and mu t, Mllllktlllllg.
In the evciiiiig, when the little old
woman sat down to her work. she re-
inenihered the nia;:ic iimwlle. She had
lllll‘ll<lt to ask for it as the price of her
labor. Now she was sorry that she lntd
' lint when she
nu-dlt--book it broke
into three pie ,oinesy threw tlicin
into lira-, and saw them bet-cine
briglit-red and then black.
“Tllfll. is the last of iua;:ic for me. ‘ she
said. “I will have no more to do with
- [ii
took it l'l'0lll‘ll(
As (Joiiiesy grew old, the llel;zlll)0l">l
all wondered what nianlr lI('l' so i'Iiarit-
able when her nir-iuia were so small, and
why she never talked anymore about
her great. ancestors. lint she kept lmr
own counsel.
Mysic cllhred her the beokol‘ inagic
oI' which they had spoken on that rainv
niglit, but sh it gently‘ ,,,w1,,k
that such thin- ' had no loiiger "anv
charm for her. For the rest of her lilie
she had what she had cliosun-a quiet
heart and the prayers of the poor.
' "mg
A JEWISH LEGEND.
o .
a smile beautiful to s e, the‘
ac
F‘ebruai"] 18, 1882.
“I have suflered him tlioseliuiidred
years, altliough he ills-lnmorexl inc: and
couldst thou not endure him one night,
when he gave thee no tronlil “
'>on this, saith the story, Aluraliam
, fetched him back again, :uid gave him
He would secure .
hospitable entertaiiinicnt and wise iii-
struction.
Dick Leslie's lile idexas.
BY FANNIE WILLIAMS.
CIIAI”l‘lilt Xll.
cs IIOYOS IEANCII.
The boysarrivcd at the ranch just as
the hands were ('UIlllllf.: in froni tlic
(l:iy‘s work, and hit upon the
scene as they approarln, I it, t itled that
Los Iloyos was certainly the Iilezisitiitvst
place that he had seen since leaving San
Antonio.
lie beheld a large, wt-ll-built house or"
wood, with the unusual addition ot‘ an
upper story. A broad gallery around
‘ the four sides had a look of coolin-ss and
When Abrahain sat at his tent-door, ‘
iaccoi-ding to his eustoni, waiting to en.
tertaiu sti'aiigcrs, he espicd an old man
steeping and lcaiiiiit: on his st:iil', weary:
with age and travai (‘(ilIIlIl$(lI>W1ll‘4l him
who was one hundred yo-trs or ,,m., I[‘;
received him kindly, i lied his fret
provided supper, caiiserl h n tositdown:
lnit ohserviin; the old in:m ate and r-. ‘
ed not, nor beggetl for AI blessing of lug
nu-,at, he asked him why he did not wor-
ship the God of licavoii.
The old mini toltl hilii that lie n‘oi'sliip-
ed the lire only. and :u>knowlc<It:,l no
other I-‘ml. At n hivh nstrer .tlmth;..,,
frvu so ' Q
the old man out oi‘ his tent, and e. t
him In all the evils oi‘ the night and 2...
iiiimtanlml ronulilion.
‘VIWII llu! old iiutii u‘as[.;oiiu, Hod vall-
rd In A ln'ali:nn, and asked liiiiiu-ht,-1-u
lliv :llI‘:Iii:<>i' was. llu replied;
"l Ihrusl him away, because he did I D
not uorship ’l‘li(,-i-,"
God answered him
we-v-a m
Southern coml'ort; and a uitle hall, ritu-
ning stl‘;ll51li[ (lll'HlIjJ,“ll the house, opened
on the gallery at either end.
The Iiouse stood in a broad lvennl of
the trail, which lu-ie took a sum-p to tho
westuard: and the stables which he-
lon,-red to it, the lame lIlL‘lIi>0(l p
and cattle-pt-iis. Inudc an iiiiposiir; ap-
pe-.u'anre of prosperity and (’lllt'l']iI‘l>il’.
At a little distance, on the other side of
the trail, stood the tliatcln-ll, adobe
"jack-als," ot-eiipieul by the tuo .‘l(‘XlL'illl
bands, who wen-, inarrit-d, and lived by
tliciiisclvcs in tll(‘ll'U“ll 1: lion.
'l‘hc watei'-lioles, of “'lll('lI Antonio
had spoken, and which gave the l‘:Ill<'ll
its name, were near at liaiid, and several
tine live-oak trecs added a charm to the
Scene which was rare enougli to be ap-
preciated in this land oflittle wood. All
around, a ' eye mtild see, the
reen prairic l'lV spi'v-a(l like an emerald
carpet in tlicl t of the selling sun.
As they (Iron near the house, the
iueii on lltvl's(‘l):lt'fk riding up to II .p;t1.
lcry to unsaddlc, and otlwrs, who had
left their liorscs in the pastuir, Miilllllg
tip on foot, cnirviiig tlit-ir satldles on
their b: is. ’l'here tvm'e Al cans, in
broad-brimined hats lent h e r
n ales, with red snslws in-onnd their
' sis; iie, in il-aunt-l shirts and
dock lvggiiis, and uhitc incn, lw:Il'll('ll
and brown. sittiin: thei llo lilw Con-
taurs,somc rouv.-,hlvdr - -:I and swine
“'f‘&ll'lll;; a lialf-Rlexicaii IV tunieadorncd
with fuiicy-woi-k in silk, lt-ggiiis, or
hret-clues uith buttons down the sides.
and clinkin;.v, silver spurs.
l)iek noticed a lair-liaircd man oi’ t liirtv,
with blue cyes, I liaiidsoinc t':m-, aml'a
tall‘, I":I‘llg‘Ul'-llbtlltlllg ligure, who wore an
I ' l ' ycktet and leg-
of leopard-skin.
ll.(3-l'tNl(."El line liorsc, and seeuied to be
giving diructioiis to the olllL‘l‘ men; and
Dick gilt-seed who it was belorc Antonio
( :
’3."‘
cxolaime
“ Why, there's (‘a itaiii lA)l'l>ll ! 1 did
not think he woult ll:H‘(: got back so
ooii."
Llrlc rode forward and’spokc to the cap-
mllliwliotiiriied and greeted him kindlv.
and then stood waiting until Dick came
tip (He shook hands with the ho) in a
toidial way, and bade him w<-lconu-, say-
mg:
‘fYour uncle was not looking t'or vou
quite so early. lie is down in the ‘big
asture lookiiigat the cattle l lirtillL‘llt
ioine to-day. l‘ll go and let him know
that you have arrivt-,d." '
'itli:t;;raccIu1 4; gt
a:
p lll‘l‘ oi‘ salutation,
<v.llopcd oil, and Dick said, iuipul-
t It .
p“ I don‘! woiidvr you like him, Ante-
nio; so do 1,"
Indeed, ‘there was a munlv warinth
and sincerity in the tirin clasp of (‘ap-
tain l.oren's hand, and in the tone of the
ow words he had spoken, which wollhl
have made any one like him, and from
that time forth Itick i'ullv slniiwl Anto-
nio'sadiniration or him. 5
The hloy.-4 rode on to tlte]uiusp;.“(1;;.-l
dolwn ‘ll"l)lll their horses. Antonio took
oll their su<l<llo< and throw them down
on the lluor ot the gallery, and a VtIlIll[.l
M“X“"i'l'x Whoin he e. ed .1 uaii, r-aim up
“lid took the horse. uvay to be led.
‘I his “as Antonio's work, as he told
mlzlpllllflll .-luau l.llOllp:llL he would he
“J ‘f‘ ‘‘-“l?- i0 get his supper. ‘
l.ld.Ll Cortoisagood-iiiitui'ecl fellow,"