Salt Lake Herald | 1891-05-17 | Page 2 | Effect of a Fairy Story

Effect of ji Fairy Story Alice Denning the daughter Will iamsbridge dairy farmer is just five years old and her baby brother not yet christened has owned an identity the same number of weeks As is customary under such circumstances Alice viewed the infants advent with marked disapproval disap-proval and listened with gloomy silence when her mother endeavored to arouse I her interest and satisfy her curiosity by telling her that the little boy had been found lying under a currant bush where the good fairies had placed him Her father even showed her the bush behind the barn where the child had been discovered dis-covered Alice remembered that last spring a bluebird had hatched out a family in the orchard She had taken one of the young birds while it was still in a state of nudity and brought it into the house but Mrs Denning had made her take it back to the nest and restore it to its I parents She had committed that lesson faithfully to heart On a recent morning the baby disappeared disap-peared Luckily babies of that age are soon missed and as he was not in the house Mrs Denning in great alarm went out to find Alice thinking that the little girl had taken him Alice was cautiously peeping around the corner of the barn intently watching the currant bush that her father had pointed out tc her and under its boughs where the fairies had formerly deposited him the baby well wrapped up in blanket was lying asleep on the snow Alice admitted ad-mitted that she had placed him there hoping that his first guardians would t take him back as the bluebird had received re-ceived its returned nestling last year New York Sun