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NCE in VS 1 H - ' ’ tt ine The when age pixies and elves and fairies were plentiful as as this weeds in day ?mo’dcrn Mother good somelifflculty4n had '' r Al Y 'r3 f rv - If o her shortcomings this and respect when bounced ’ she that an- she n Wl birds out the I o x e s the nr the squirrels they' answered with they--thought voice one that in the be a jolly lark to live right out the stars open with 'the blue sky and for their oflly roof o’ nights It a good pixies was or the older Is doubttenderskinned about denlpf a larK-therc nolittle But the that poor pixie babies found it not so and to their liking The twigs much them leaves stuck into them and made blowing cry and the mischievous winds them colic coldly over them gave It was a very clever pixie mother who first discovered that a tulip made She put a fine cradle for her baby her little one safely into the satin squawlcup’ and soon' from a snappy nuisance he Ing unattractive little of babyhood became a very model tiny hands cooing and clapping his in signifying that he apd other ways they allfound was glad to be alive After him the out what had transformed make other pixie mothers began to of tulips as cradles use of in well-kept garden a It tho was little cottage that the pixies discovered this important fact and first in cradles lulled their babies tulip who lived in the cottage The woman happened to go out ip to her garden one night and there to her great delight and wonder she found the little pixie babies swinging in their cradles " - ) I Ai ? M W t the house moved in He was of the whp even at great horde of humans that time were blinded by the glitter of gold and ho prided himself on having nothing about him that he could not turn into money He did not know of beauty when he saw and so course lie had no love for the beauti in in ful flowers or human even it beine-s win not nave tnose runps uttering garden" he said upon the up my day that 'he arrived And he ordered some men to come in and dig them up ' at i once “I like potatoes better they’re more useful” he said and accordingly potatoes were planted well imagine how You can angry the Little People were and how they resented the removal of theii- babies’ beautiful satin cradles! In place of the blessing that they had cast over the house of the good they placed dark spell over woman the house of the disagreeable hard man tenant When was dark they would troop from the forest and swarm up the side of the house scratching the paint anf stopping and breaking the windows up the chimney so that it would not draw They cut the potatoes to pieces and nothing that the man nlanted lived Only one spot in the neighborhood a graveshaped green and tnat was was spot by the roadside 'At the head of this place grew a cluster of satin tulips such as had bloomed all the desolate over now lived This garden when the woman In and said awed men 'pointed out whispers was the grave of the good to who had been kind the woman plxiS babieS Some of tho country people to this day say that the fairies of who had to the bills retreat to the fastness for the return upon occasion to grhve of the woman who had been their friend a it a ex-player it a golden flood of the wakening over the sky Is deep blue at the zenith and tones down to tender greens and purples and rosy mysteries of color that Merge into tire same exquisite tones in the spring world at the horizon The breeze tosses great balls of snowy clouds across the sky and flocks of birds wing their tireless through the radiant way to the north air and then winter turns in a rage at north and his Banishment to the cold puffs an angry blast across the skyto sends the birds downward that little shelter and tumbles the poor white douds till they turn gray with — odd big tears of fright and in distress and a moment J£e soft beauty of the golden day is chanted and it is cold and dreary The birds sit t HE "set at rest for the men were sent to plant more tulips In the queer little garden" to - the-pixies It became apparent soon that here was the best place in world to cradle their babies and the “ tney cametlienocKing over ine nms valleys-and after atinje —up-from with them They the place all it at that the minded not woman would come out from the house and watch their pretty babies swinging’ in and took the tulips in to the moonlight her for her good care repay r ’ -wasfillef x happened I “Ah-ha-ha!” sta-rtled it a I till world for the gray rocks some of nature's most exquisite children already are pushing through the ground into the sunshine That tiny point of green is the tightly curled leaf of the blood root or Sanguibarla and a few warm straightened the walks about They the little house and trimmed the grass and made all things neat and orderly landlord who owned the the Now cottage' where the woman who loved tulips lived was a hard cruel man saw that tho cottage which had always paid him poorly before was and attractive now spick and tospan get and he decided another who would pay him more money than who had lived there so the woman long and One day he went to the woman fold her that she would have to leave home the house and seek another white and Now’ the woman’s hair was steadily for she ‘she could innot walk lived the cottage a long long 4iad and- she felt that she would die time if she were taken away landlord would net when she told him this and onlyjbade her make waf quickly tenant So the old woman for walked down the garden path one ur and never seen UJI ULU was n9 WVWM again Some WV folk — say that ahe died by the wayside was burled by the pixies to whom -weep -tenant " rattling But-the-hard -her - li a rood her lifetime wMeaiiwhUethamamviliOh3dfrntAd T close and silent on the branch and every planllet— nesUes down andis waits that it only for well they know uuiu iiUXMWi MUU lhv auu jnerxy face is already peepihy at them-and Ground the corner of the cloud' —and — a tnou-sand 13 vanishingVi ko in HM!fiUu I! -flowers ' 1 -hillsides -among- uIIb li - Child ren -- floated dropping into the river away nobody ‘‘Huh!’” snorted Billy "Now has it" would have had it”’ gravely “Who asked Mr King “You” told him the whole story And Billy the part about the tent light When he finished Mr King said: “I’m glad you decided the way you did BiUy for saw you pick up that other ball and wondered" BiUy blushed continued Mr King “But” “what you decide as you did?" made “red flashed me a wigwag signal" “What the signal?” was “That sir is a secret word” Mr King “the Boy “Then’ mused Scouts are fine fellows Come on back to the links want another game” They trudged back and Mr King went around the sunny course once It did not seem so long this more time to Billy finished Mr King handed When they Billy a quarter and a piece “But” protested the boy “that’s 10 cents too much” “That’s all right That’s extra mistakes about you made no the nutter or brassle this time’to Thanking him Billy turned go but as he dropped the 30 cents into hie pocket he exclaimed: aO Mr King have the cents “Why for my tent light anyway!” amt ’ - including f answers '-believe hart snow-white them The Carolina Wren hatched out her queer little babies and the Woodcock expects hers in a day or so and so does the fierce Duck Hawk on the cliff side and the odd little Screech Owl up in the apple tree The Robins are straggling In proud and lordly in their rich new clothes "Here quick!" they call but the lady Robins are not ready to answer yet and only Phoebe’s melancholy call him or the sweet high whistle of the Meadowlark Sparrows are everywhere their brown coats bobbing about among the brown grasses like of them the White Throat Some songsters The Kingfisher are famous has come and we hear his long call as he flies from the dead tree to the bank where he will dig children full lure's are awake ager a spring ana ox tne spirit or loving voices assyre sweet and if will Nature’s we go into us welcome ranton arid learn tn know find’s Other ’ ? spotless -big v ' the the crevices lie little the rooks rosettes of green leaves Watch and you will seethe fuzzy spikes of tiny white spring from them the early Saxifrage Look down by the roots of the woodland trees for a clump of round three-lobed leaves rather weatMr and rusty looking and worn you Wi stem bearing aloft a see a short fuzzy delicate purplish or pinkish flower the liverwort Look at the trees and see the buds swelling and at every swaying branch in the thicket takinir Its tlmro of green Look and look again for it is so sometimes com mac mese brave little harbingers of spring will have to 'wait for time but they the are on way and we should be ready to welcome ‘ the-next out it 1 -and bring purity of its delicate blossom The root contains a crimson juice with which the Indians used to paint their faces and from 8f which gets its name In - - will days ' ’ a it -trouble - ’’ Before God’s Other Children 4jUyiy soon ' 1 the 75-cent sun pours' his warmth light and - ward ditch WySWCuj it -care -He the it of flowers People were Next day the Little astounded to see men with spades in the garden and for a time they were they thought that angry as well for about to have the the was woman their fears were tulips pulled up1ut - and bunker Billy ran the The ball was not In the exact place he thought it was and he had to hunt ball that He found the white was still climbed out but unnicked and upon glancing again at it he found at all King’s ball that' was not Mr ‘‘Dimple’' but an 'almost new at stared unbelievingly then He scrambled down the side of the ditch and saw the ball for which ho was searching bunker He hastened back to the King where the impatient Mr was "Those Boy Scouts are taking all the waiting ginger out of you aren’t they?” get a "Beets boy! Why can’t you "Oh sir" hastily answered no no on you?" move Billy Now by the word "Beets" Billy knew If King smiled and went into the Mr Mr King angry that was very Clubhouse and his caddy turned and Mr King said ‘‘Beets’’ that was equal walked slowly down the road words using swear to another man of his Should he have given the' bad to Mr but he believed in being careful King or was it all right to keep it? speech lie shambled down path the hot dusty and they Billy gave him his ball long The beat down hptly it was sun Mr King was an started around walk— almost two miles— and when Billy disliked to have but cellent to the bridge over the river he came to him or his caddy mention the fact thinking stood looking down into and for this reason he any one else la ni A halloo aroused him and who would always called for Billy with three seputs and the scoutmaster or even talk about the new steam cars disappearing around the bend was would the new president before he the boat disappeared red raised anything about golf a say the flag and gave wigwag signal-a They chatted on amiably while they private code known only to Boy Scouts triumphant walked the course Billy was Billy smiled squared his shoulders until he his about his rind took the golf ball from pocket and to think: turned to go back to the clubhouse to find give Mr King the As he turned for King is paying me my "Mr Mr King who had come up growled: anything find during that time and Which so Billy that the golf time belongs to him” ball his thought about slipped through He thought and warm lingers His father who played golf in always ball good for gave him 50 cents condition and 50 cents would just buy the new battery for his tent light Yes he decided he 50would keep the and have the cents for his ball battery "Beets child! What’s the matter with don’t want you? putter here” ”Bcg pardon sir” And Billy handed him the right one and replaced the putter When the course was finished—andMrnever before had seemed 30 long— King paid and remarked: Billy his 20 cents to it-would jihI o t she was to make homes for them In the trees without pushing er Jjr tv hoy - VWBft pixies were very-g o d natured about the the 8 past Wayne’s Billy accustomed eye perceived its hiding place and Mr King when had successfully the used new ball which Billy and had opened had started on II w r - Ys providing in — J for allher children The Oin tl s ditch ' ilitV I skidded bunker down into Nature i white tiny ball a c o course - 4 oimpie ORE beau- that tlful Jr- 1 S Cradles ?ixie ti PAPER GIRLS" D AN A I I I 5-cent because I |