Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . olywell which cures all maladies, if so be onehas a will to be healed? Maybe if youwent in, God would grant you no longerto be lame. The man said : Fair brother, tenyears since I came here a cripple in oneleg only: one was of wood, but the otherwas of flesh and sound. And when Iwent down into the well I prayed thatmy legs might be restored to me as mucha pair as God could make them. So Iprayed, and coming up out of the waterI found I had two wooden legs insteadof one! God be praised! That was agreat miracle, was it not? So I


Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . olywell which cures all maladies, if so be onehas a will to be healed? Maybe if youwent in, God would grant you no longerto be lame. The man said : Fair brother, tenyears since I came here a cripple in oneleg only: one was of wood, but the otherwas of flesh and sound. And when Iwent down into the well I prayed thatmy legs might be restored to me as mucha pair as God could make them. So Iprayed, and coming up out of the waterI found I had two wooden legs insteadof one! God be praised! That was agreat miracle, was it not? So I standhere and ask alms, and increase mensfaith when they hear my story. When Amoris heard that, he was quiteglad, and gave the man full twenty piecesof silver. Certes, said he, I holdthis for a good omen! Now when I takemy malady—even my love for Amabel-down to the water and bid it drink thereand be healed, I trust God will increaseit to me as He did the wooden legs ofthis poor cripple! Therewith went lie in; and all roundhe saw upon the walls the signs of those. that before him had been was no malady under the sunbut had been healed there one dayor another. So without more adohe prays God and all the saints tosuccor him, and goes down into thewater, with his heart full of sicknessfor Amabel, his dear delight, whomhe remembered so well.


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