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Show Effect of a Futry Story. Alice Denning, the daughter of a Will-iamsbridge 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 infant's advent with marked disap-j disap-j proval, and listened with gloomy silence j when her mother endeavored to arouse I her interest and satisfy her curiosity by j telling her that the little boy had been I found lying under a currant bush, where the good fairies had placed him. Her i father even showed her the bush, behind the barn, where the child had been dis-! dis-! covered. Alice remembered that last spring a . bluebird had hatched ont a family in the I ' orchard. She had taken one of the i 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 I i back to the nest and restore it to its - parents. She had committed that lesson , j faithfully to heart. I On a receut morning the baby disappeared. disap-peared. Lnckily 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 bad taken him. Alice wae cautiously peeping around the corner ot the barn, intently watching the currant bnsh that her father had pointed ont to her, and under its boughs, where the fairies had formerly deposited him, the baby, well wrapped up in a blanket, was lying asleep on the snow. Alice admitted ad-mitted that she had placed him there, hoping that his first guardians would I take him back, as the bluebird had re-i re-i ceived its returned nestling last year. I New York Sun. |
