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When he reached the house he took a kneading-trough, put the little thing in it, set it on the roof, and then crawled into the cottage, saying: "Come quick, wife, come quick, and see what a treasure of a daughter, with golden hair and eyes like stars, our Lord has given me."
"I," said the boy, "am the son of a poor peasant, and all I have in the world is an old kneading-trough. I have come here to seek work." The king laughed when he heard this. "Indeed," said he, "you have not inherited much, but fortune works many a change." He took the lad to be one of his servants, and he became a favourite for his courage and honesty.
It is this fact which constitutes our modern "Woman's Labour Problem." Our hoes and our grindstones passed from us long ago, when the ploughman and the miller took our place; but for a time we kept fast possession of the kneading-trough and the brewing-vat. Today, steam often shapes our bread, and the loaves are set down at our very door it may be by a man-driven motor-car!
'Run out, Buttercup, there's a dear! said the old wife, 'and see what Goldtooth is barking at. So the boy ran out, and came back crying out: 'Oh, Heaven help us! here comes a great big witch, with her head under her arm, and a bag at her back. 'Jump under the kneading-trough and hide yourself', said his mother. So in came the old hag! 'Good day', said she!
The room on the ground-floor, the only one in the dwelling, had at its farther end, against the wall, a large bed without curtains, while a kneading-trough took up the side by the window, one pane of which was mended with a piece of blue paper.
His brothers despised him for doing this, and whenever they had a chance they used him badly. At length the father and mother died, and the sons divided the property among them. As might have been looked for, the elder brothers took all that was of any value for themselves, leaving nothing to the youngest but an old cracked kneading-trough, which neither of them thought worth the having.
Morpher, over a kneading-trough, with her bare arm whitened with flour, is genuinely grieved at parting with the master, and, in spite of Mr. Gray's earnest remonstrances, insists upon conducting him into the chill parlor, leaving him there until she shall have attired herself in a manner becoming to "company." "I don't want you to go at all no more I don't," says Mrs.
Here comes the old hag again with her head under her arm, and a sack at her back. 'Jump under the kneading-trough and hide', said his mother. 'Good day! said the hag, as she came in at the door; 'is your Buttercup at home to-day? 'You're very kind to ask after him', said his mother; 'but he's out in the wood with his father, shooting ptarmigan.
'God bless you! said Buttercup's mother. 'Isn't your Buttercup at home to-day? asked the hag. 'No, that he isn't. He's out in the wood with his father, shooting ptarmigan. 'Plague take it', said the hag, 'for I had such a nice little silver knife I wanted to give him. 'Pip, pip! here I am', said Buttercup under the kneading-trough, and out he came.
Zebedee Marvyn set his face as a flint, and said, "He went out from us because he was not of us," whereat old Candace lifted her great floury fist from the kneading-trough, and, shaking it like a large snowball, said, "Oh, you go 'long, Massa Marvyn; ye'll live to count dat ar' boy for de staff o' your old age yet, now I tell ye; got de makin' o' ten or'nary men in him; kittles dat's full allers will bile over; good yeast will blow out de cork, lucky ef it don't bust de bottle.
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