is wanting," said the goose; "it is an herb called
Sneeze with Delight. I will help you find it."

[Illustration: THE DWARF AND THE GOOSE.]

The dwarf took the goose under his arm, and asked of the guard, who
had been placed over him until he should prepare the dish,
permission to go into the garden.

They were allowed to go. They searched in vain for a long time; but
at last the goose spied the magic leaf across the lake, and swam
across, and returned with it in her bill.

"'Tis the magic herb the old woman used in the soup," said the
dwarf. "Thank the Fates! we may now be delivered from our
enchantment."

He took a long, deep sniff of the herb. He then sneezed with
delight, and lo! he began to grow, and his nose began to shrink, and
he was transformed to the handsomest young man in all the land.

He took the goose under his arm, and walked out of the palace yard.
He carried her to a great magician, who delivered her from her
enchantment, and she sneezed three sneezes, and became the
handsomest lady in all the kingdom.

Now, Mimi's father was very rich, and he loaded Jamie with
presents, which were worth a great fortune.

Then handsome Jamie married the lovely Mimi; and he brought his old
father and mother to live with them in a palace, and they were all
exceedingly happy.

"What is the moral of such a tale as that?" asked one of the Club.

"If you have any crookedness, to find the magic herb," said Charlie.

Charlie Leland, the President, closed the exercises with some
translations of his own, which he called "Stories in Verse." We give
two of them here; each relates an incident of Eberhard, the good
count, whom German poets have often remembered in song.

THE RICHEST PRINCE.

In a stately hall in the city of Worms,
A festive table was laid;
The lamps a softened radiance shed,
And sweet the music played.

Then the Saxon prince, and Bavaria's lord,
And the Palsgrave of the Rhine,
And Wuertemberg's monarch, Eberhard,
Came into that hall to dine.

Said the Saxon prince, with pride elate,
"My lords, I have wealth untold:
There are gems in my mountain gorges great;
In my valleys are mines of gold."

"Thou hast boasted well," said Bavaria's lord,
"But mine is a nobler land:
I have famous cities, and castled towns,
And convents old and grand."

"And better still is