Show 0 dams evela Eye rii fd c hany i N tale ti v gzym aa BONER aws EDAS FARM FAHM KINQ KING now edit eda was very anxious to leave the farm and go into society when she grew older and site she thought about it and wondered 01 how it could be she thought it would bo be so lovely to bo be very fine and to have to do nothing at ill all all the brebt of her days except to give orders grew so tired at times of tho the numbers of chores which were always coming up to be done ono sh sha grew crew so tired night titter ela eda had gone to bed bho he was thinking about a wonderful future and planning her best make believe plans when suddenly a a little fairy appeared Il hello lello eda said the fairy why hello bello said B eda my name Is fairy grant your wishes sold the fairy and tho the Drea inland rilland lung king end and tho the fairy wondrous secrets said you might want to ask me to grant you some wishes Is there anything you wish oh fairy said eda 1 I would like t to 0 be in high society when I 1 grow up and id even like to begin now so before E eda da know knew it she was with many little girls who were so beautifully dressed and they always had people about them maids and governesses and they do anything by themselves I 1 edn eda used to that at nit nil she had always been used to having a lot of freedom and independence and when she suggested that they all go 90 barefoot everyone ma horrified at her they know what to mako make of that at all and oil oh ela wondered after a time how she could ever stand the life even after she grew up for there were so many teas and card parties and luncheons and there were no picnics and no berry and nut hunts the life ahead looked so dull and the life now was all that eda could possibly bear how she did wish she asked fairy orant grant your wishes to grant such a silly billy wish one day she was talking to a lot of her newfound new found friends they were all boasting 0 of f how rich their daddies were and of how famous they were wera and of their grandfathers and grand mothers moth era they quite understand why eda was one of them in such an unexpected and unexplained fashion and they wanted to make sure that she really belonged so they began talking of their riches and of their ono fine aristocracy or ancestors ce which showed that they amount to much when they boasted so much my father was waa tho the founder of a coaching club in the most fashionable city said one as though that were of great historical importance my grandfather was the founder of an automobile racing club and my grandmothers father was the one who originated the riding crops now in use in all the smart riding clubs said bald another my grandfather was the brass tack king who made the great family fortune out of brass tacks said a third my imy father Is known as the curtain rod king said a fourth and his father before him was famous for being the founder of the tuesday evening club din diapers pers on thay boasted of their relatives who rode along the best bridle paths in city parks and eda thought though t it very strange that those who said eald they believed in a democracy should call all their rich relatives kings when they became prosperous and who was f father a t b or uey they asked her ue ile to 1 really a king of the earth 11 1 eda 1 d a answered i and they till nil I 1 laughed and said I 1 A king of the everyone was wa earth how could Hor horrified rifled 11 he be that ile he Is a tamer farmer eda went on and without farmers your fathers would never have been able to do any thing tor for the earth gives us what we eat and what we need dut but while you would call my daddy a F farm arm king it if you had him I 1 just call him roy my dear i tamer farmer daddy and shall hall from now on for I 1 dont like society I 1 wan want t to go back to the farm I 1 I 1 want to go where things are happy and 9 ample and real and ng as she said this the children 0 seemed to vanish and fairy grant your had taken eda back and the whole long drea dream had bad only taken one night of real time dut but oh ob how happy eda was that no one had bad known own she had ever deserted the farm and its dear people and its dear animals for what was waa no BO curiously thought to be famous society j |