THE STORY OF THE OLD WELL.

“Tuts is Agatha’s Well, young ladies. Would you like to
know why it is so called? Well, long ago a very ‘old
lady, called Agatha, lived in the cottage with her six cats,
and because she had so many cats, and because she was old,
everyone called her ‘Witch’ But Agatha did not mind;
she kept to herself, and did not trouble anyone, until one
hot day there was no water in-her well. She went from 3
one to another asking for water, but nobody would give
her any. ‘You are a witch,’ each one said; ‘get your
water somewhere else. So two days passed away. On
the evening of. the third’ day, when Agatha went to her
empty well, a small girl, with a jug of water in her hand,
stood beside it. ‘Drink,’ she said, ‘you are thirsty, and
I know you are not a witch.’ That evening it rained, and
there was soon plenty of water in the well; ‘but old
Agatha did not forget the little girl. When she died, it
was found that she had left all her money, the cottage and
the well, and the six cats to the little girl who had been kind
to her. That little girl, young ladies, J am proud to say, was

my great-grandmother, and Agatha’s Well is our well now.”