Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-03-17
WAa0G1 1fY.
From the Southern Field and Flrcside.
The Fairy's Visit.

The Fairy's Visit.
BY I. +.
Are thcro such things as Falics? / never
saw one, aud lnevcr knew but one person who
had, and her story | will tell you. AS a
Child, believed in them, and | have kind
OF lurking faith in them yet. But 7 will toll
You the story, and you may Judge for your
selves.
There was littlo girl once, and her namo
WAS Ailie, and She greatly desired to see Fai-
ry. Her mother believed in them, and so, of
course, did She, for children always do what
the mothers do; and besides this, Allie had
another good reason for her faith in the little
people, for always, on her birthday, fairy
brought her nest full of beautiful colorcd
eggs, which tasted sweet liliosugar -plums, and
hung it on a rosc-bush close by the window
and rise as early as she might there it hung
dressed with colored ribbons No one, Of
course, but fairy could do that.
Allie, too, would peep cmiously into the
heart of a rose, if she could find one half
open, or peer into the cup of the white lily
when it was Just budding, but the imprison-
ed fairy always made its escape before she
found it.
The wide, open common beyond her mo-
thcr's house, was covered with tall plants of
the sweet fcnncl, and myrads of bright pink
butterflies lived upon it The little girl
thought that upon each of these butterflies
she would find fairy taking ride, and so,
for hours she would chase them and as they
would sct,lc now upon one bush, now upon
another, She would Green up softly. and
stretching forth her hand exclaim ioyously.
Nov have =" but lust as she touched
her prize it was off. and she had nothing but
a,little of the pink dust upon her fingers; and
as she never caught one, of course She never
saw the fairy.
But the little child could not always be a
child, and so, before anybody Thought of it,
she was blushin@, beautiful Girl. The COL
den curls had grown dark, and the laughing
, eyes were softcnod by long lushcs, and had
become tender with the first exquisite feeling
of young love Still she thought of fairies,
and now she would seek out the place where
the wild roses grew, and by the water-sidc for
the soft moss of which they made their beds,
or for the twin blossom of the fragrant Mich
eli, with which they decled their halls and
when the moonlight came, and soft summer
nights, she would wander for hours under the
shade of great trees OF, with her lover by
her side, sit upon the green grass where the
fairies danced, and they would talk, suppose,
Of the fairies. ] don't know what else it
could have been thatsent the bright flush into
her cheek, and the bright light into her dark
cyc-it WAS certainly something very, pleas
ant.
But now sad change came over Ailic.-
She grew tired of her lover, and of her hum
BILE but happy home She read about rich
people, and thought she would like to be rich.
To LAUGH and to dance, and be as active
as t."n' seemed 70 her not man so pleasant
as to lie languidiy upon sllkcn couch, and
be waited ON by servants. The warm, spicy
brcczes OF the lar'oit Fast must be more dc
iliShtlul than the cool, bmcng, mountain
breeze; the pale check OF halt'sick lndolencc
far more interesting than the mil&-maid beau
ty of rude health. Thus rcasoned-tIus fam
cied Alic: Wealth and oriental luxury were
all she could think OF. Palm trees and irc-
flies haunted her imagination Her step be-
camc languid, her temper peevlSh, IN the vain
Logging for what she had not, and the thought
came to her more than once ii llnrola
was only rich How becoming would pearls
be to my dark hair How richly would satns
hang around my graceful form ON II
could only see iNrY! "ouId ! not ask ioi
wealth an9 ease and iuXuly Without them
there is no happiness
Poor Allie prom beng tired OF, she now
began to desplSc her noblchcarted lover, be-
cluac he was poor; and nesec[nG the duties
winch surrounded hcr ana the good gifts
which merclfnl yea mad SnoweFed upon her.
she spent all her Ilnc IN y: ya.g ICPinmSS after