Maggie Moloch & Brownie Clod...

Stories about female brownies are rare.  This one is about two brownies who were mates.  Brownie Clod was rather stupid.  He liked to hang out at the town's mill.  One day a lovely golden haired girl came to grind her grain into flour.  Brownie Clod approached her smiling his vacant smile.  He made the girl very nervous with his humming and shuffling nearer and nearer to her.  Then, after the girl was finished grinding her grain he followed her home.

The girl began making soup for herself and her invalid old grandpa.  Brownie Clod was practically hanging over the soup kettle, beginning to drool in it.  The girl exasperated, tipped the scalding soup onto him.  He screamed and asked her name.  She said, - "I Myself!"

Brownie Clod ran home to Maggie Moloch.  He was severely burned and as he laid dying in their bed Maggie Moloch asked him who scalded him.  He replied, - "I Myself."  Hmmm...  Maggie Moloch thought that was a strangely suspicious answer, so after Brownie Clod died she went to town.  She overheard the girl laughing and telling her sister how she taught the extremely stupid brownie who was bothering her a lesson.

Without hesitation, Maggie Moloch jumped through the house's kitchen window and picked up a small stool.  She hurled it at the girl, killing her on the spot.  Then, Maggie called it as she jumped out the kitchen window, - "I, myself, did it!"