THE VAMPIRE AND ST. MICHAEL,

NCE upon a time in a certain village
there lived two neighbours ; one
was rich, very rich, and the other
so poor that he had nothing in the
world but a little hut, and that was

 

tumbling about his ears. At length
things came to such a pass with the poor man
that he had nothing to eat, and could get work
nowhere. Full of grief, he bethought him what he
should do. He thought and thought, and at last he
said: “Look ye, wife! Ill go to my rich neighbour.
Perchance he will lend me a silver ruble; that, at
any rate, will be enough to buy bread with.” So he
went.

He came to the rich man. “Good health to my
lord!” cried he.—“ Good health !”—“I have come
on an errand to thee, dear little master ! ”—‘‘ What
may thine errand be?” inquired the rich man.—