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Inside, packed in thin slips of paper, was a set of dishes; pure white, with the tiniest rose-bud in the middle of each; cups, saucers, meat-dish, coffee-pot, and all; and, below all, a pitcher, with sand on the brown bottom, but the top and handle of solid gold! Donee went back to the hut, trotting along beside Oostogah, her roll of calico under her arm.
After he had kissed and hugged his wife and little ones, he said: "You remember, wife, how Hawk cheated that poor Indian lad out of his land?" "Yes; I always said it was the old story of the fox and the foolish raven over again." "It was the old story of the white and the red man over again. But out in an Indian village I found Donee sick and starving." The miller's wife jumped to her feet.
The shining plates just fitted into the moss, and there was a little pitcher, the round-bellied part of which was covered with sand, while the handle and top were, Jenny said, of solid gold; that was put in the middle of all. Donee did not think it was like fairy-land or heaven, because she had never in her life heard of fairy-land or heaven.
The Lombards had a similar transfer, in which the donee was not only called heres, but was made liable like an heir for the debts of the donor on receiving the property after the donor's death. /2/2 By the Salic law a man who could not pay the wergeld was allowed to transfer formally his house-lot, and with it the liability. But the transfer was to the next of kin. /3/
One of the finest things in his whole library was the Psalter which Louis IX. had given to Guillaume de Mesmes: it had come by some means into the library at Whitehall; but on the execution of Charles I. the French Ambassador had been able to secure it, and had restored it to the family of the original donee.
Donee managed to whisper, if she were to have a party the next day, could the children come to it? and their mother said: "Certainly, in the evening." When the little girl ran down the hill, the miller said: "Seems as if't would be easy to make Christians out of them two." "I'm going to do what I can for Donee," said the miller's wife.
There was a log smouldering on the hearth, where Donee baked cakes of pounded corn and beans in the ashes, and on the other side of the dark room was the heap of straw where she slept. Besides this, there were two hacked stumps of trees which served for chairs, and an iron pot out of which they ate; and there you have the royal plenishing of that palace.
The second is the ingratitude of the donee and the Abbe Gabriel may be certain of our deep and lasting gratitude. The last case is the non-fulfilment of the wishes of the donor, with regard to the employment of his gifts.
She had never seen anything but her own filthy hut, with its iron pot and wooden spoons. "Now, Donee," she said, "if you can make yourself a dress of this I will give you this box," and she opened a box, just like Jenny's.
At last the poor raven, silly with flattery, opened his mouth to sing when lo! the cheese dropped to the ground, and off ran the wily fox with the stolen treasure in his mouth. Donee was a king's daughter.
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