The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-09-14

ehiS nenia but Ella also, ale0, began y sas
lleve that they had only ia1eied those usaa
tihil things which they dimly remeIlpeieu'
They had one child, boy calied Noinah,
and they loved him dearly. He hVeu III
magic iworld of his own, but ne co.uu hoI
take his mother there. And Ellie sigheu ana
smiled together when she saw MN porlhS
over marvellous adventures anu taies OF 81
onts and enchanters, or finding for himself
wonderful beauties and difficulties and dan
GERS. all in one narrow strip Of garden and
and tiny brook She smiled, because she
was glad that her boy had the same dreams
that gladdened her childhood; she sighed,
because she thought they were only dreams
that could never return.
by ami by there came troubles to the house
troubles great and small First money
trouoles-things which make fairy land seem
very far away, and which brought still harder
work for Denis, still more worries for Ellie
Then came sickness; the boy was i'll and his
parents feared for his life, while Ellie also was
ailing. Oh, what dull, sad, weary time was q,
that. Their hearts sank within them, and ail
| their life looked gloomy. Now 1t seemed 10
| them very strange that they had not been
more happy before real grief fell upon them.
.'Ahn thought Denis, 'if my boy and my wi'e
are but once well again, all will be bright and
| / shall care for nothing else." And Ellie said
l H.
| could again be companion to Denis L would
grieye no more for my vanished Fairy Land"
For the two had grown dearer to each 9TH
| er in their anxiety, and they thought they
had never really known how they loved till
| now.
AT last the brighter time came The boy
recovered; once more his merry laugh was
heard, the more joyful for the delight of re-
turning strength after having known weak
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very happy days, such as Denis had hoped for
I'D his sorrow. There were days when the
three were much together for now Denis would
not allow work OF any othe~ claim to steal all
the hours from the time that he loved at
home; and Ellie, neither for cares or fatigue
would give up her sympathy and interest in
all that interested him.
One summer evening she lay resting, while
Denis was beside her, and the boy sat at her
feet. Suddenly the child looked up with clear
big eyes, and said, Mamma, here is such a
beautiful story all about fairies, and man
who went into their country. You never
went there, papa?"
Then Denis and Ellie looked at one anoth,
er, and the same light came into both Their
faces, and smile on their lips: both saw the
same thing, and had the same thoughts in
their hearts. For, though they could never
tell exactly how or when il happened, Fairy
Land had come to them. Yes, and Fairy
Land just as beautiful as that in the garden
of their childhood and youth. Outside, upon
the narrow strip OF green sward, the evening
shadows lay more still and calm than the
changing sun and shade of the old avenue
but not less lovely. Through the large branch
es of the grand old elm without fairy light
streamed into the room that gave the we'll
worn cover, of the household books an untold
beauty, and lent to the words within a magic
power it made the picture ON the wall, of a
corn-feld bathed in sunset light, show forth
through the glory of its golden light, every
lovely home-scene on which it had looked
down. Through the open window the coo
ing of the household doves fioeted in upon a
fairy song OF calm content, and the father and
mother saw. through the SUMS long low rays
a fairy coronet oil light upon the head of theil
| boy. eAff ia
From that day Fairy Land never left them
1t staid with them till old age, when theil
children's children climbed upon their knees
! to hear the story Of grandmammas fairy gar
| den, and found their own magic land, where
all was goodness and peace, in that calm pres
| ence.