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Show I WAS IT THE FIELD FAIRY? Part II I .lark wondered what the Meld Fairy tn-i tn-i tended to do. bill he would not be surprised sur-prised now st anihing. so he Wran to j pli:k some hemes, for he had not had hia hraakfest. and now Krlndle Cow wa sure he waa not going to the butcher. She. too. began to eat the sweet grass by the stream. 1 Jack thought she might speak again and he patted her sides and nose, but the only answ er B Indie Cow made was to rub her nose against him and moo. After a while Jack heard someone calling call-ing his name, and running down the road II waa Nina. Nh! I am ao glad I have found nil," rhe said. "Come qui-kl ; something has happened to Simon." Si-mon." Jack let Brlndle Cow take care of herself her-self and hurried after Nina, wondering what the fairy had don to Simon. But It seemed that Hlmon had brought on his trouble himaelf by trying to save the wood that morning when Nina told him she needed more wood for the fire. Instead of giving her more wood he had poured oa some oil and the flame had biased up and burned him. When Jack and Nina reached the farmhouse farm-house 8imoo waa On the floof groaning with pain. Forgetting all the unklndneae they had received at hie hands, Jack and Nina lifted him from the floor and placed htm on his bed. Then they did all they could to relieve his sufferings. Nina bathed his face and hands and Jack bandaged them, and by and by he fell asleep. When he awoke he asked , for some gruel, and then he remembered Urindle Cow. 1 "l'eor creature.' said Simon. M! w'sh ! I had kept her even it she was getting; o'.rt; but it is. too late now. for. of ioui, the buti'her has her." t Juet then "moo. moo," was heard otit-side, otit-side, and for the first time since he left her at the stream Jack thought of Brin die Cow. "Why, there ehe le now." he said. "1 did not get to the butcher'e this morning because Nina called me before 1 had gone beyond the woods " "I'll nevr sell her." said Ibmon. ";o : ott, Jttrk. and gie her a aond dinner. 1 and tonirht see that ah Km a t m- bed ( ef straw m the barn ' - That aajr for eUaner 1000 told 'Nina ft to has a good met stew and that Nina and .la-k nerr- to rat all thev wanted. j Jw-k lold Nina wliar had happened at ! t lie st res 01 In t he w ool a nd a iked her jr she tliouirht firy h.id atiytbing to do with the ftiyidftit lht happened to fiimon. '"Of course not." an Id Nina. 'Fairies always do good, not bad, things, and besides. be-sides. Hlmon must hnve been burned at the very time you saw the fairy, and I wonder If you reH did eee a fain' after all. Ar you sure you did not f-ill asleep and dream It all?" Jack was unite sure he did not dream It. hut never aa:tln did Brtedle Cow speak at least, Jaek neer tuard her it she did. Hut when Plmon recovered from hla I burns and was quite welt again something did hapin, and whether the Field Kalry I and Krlndle Cow had anything to do with It Jack and Nina never knew. Hlmon was a changed man. that was j sure. He would not let Nina do the work any more, but sent both of the ehlldren I to school. He fixed up the house and bought new furniture, and. best of all. ! he bought nice clothing for Jack and Nina. j "And If you don't mind," said Simon to Jack and Nina one day, "1 wish you would call me I'ncle Himon." He even bought a ntce horse and pretty willow carriage for the children to- drive to school; In fact, everybody thought Si- 1 men must have loot his mind, he was ao I changed. j lt muat be the work of the Field ; Fairy." said Jark when he and Nina' jwere tslklna over What the i.elgh bora 1 1 art Ml til -out Smon "She sad he would rhane hott h.to a kinder, d good man. " , "I'erhapa site ettnie and tuund hii:i ' burned and ihouaht she' would wait and see what happened to him." said Nina, "but I think you fell asleep that morning. morn-ing. Jack, while you were waiting for Brlndle Cow to drink at the stream." "Rrtndle Cow aaw the fairy, didn't you. Brlndle?" asked Jack, aa Brlndle Cow came up to the atone wall where Jack and Nina stood. Hrind'.e Vow looked 01 er s II r straieht- "si J ,nk and :.t..w r J-d: '.J--0-o " (Copynah. I"is bv 'be M.ciurt N'ewa-1 later bjndcai. New l.rk City-) 1 |