The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-26
now LITTLE NTNTY CAME our
ALL RiGHT.

named Inty and Mlnty Inty was a boy, and
Minty was a girl fairy, and they were both
generally great friends with each other, and
very happy. One day they went out into the
woods to see whether the honeysuckles were
out yet. These flowers are great favorites
with the fairies, and the honey from one of
them is enough for fairys supper, which
don't amount to much, you know. Well,
these two little things went wandering away,
ever so far, until they came to a brook that
was babbling and rushing along Just as fast
as it could 60 There was little branch of O
tree lying across 1t, and Lnty thought that
they could cross on it, little Mlnty was
afraid, but she allowed herself to be coaxed.
SO they both walked over the water on the
branch, and they both slipped, of course, and
pop into the brook they went. Poor little
Minty was carried away by the rushing water,
and she was so frightened and SO nearly
drowned that she could not call out, nor did
she see anything of Inty Every minute she
expected TO sink beneath the waves, aud when
she passed near little reed or blade of
grass on the shore, she would grasp at it, but
they all broke off, or else she could not reach
them. At length she came to lilv growing
by the brookslde, which had large bud on
the top OF long stalk.
There had been a storm the night before,
and the lily had been so bent down by the
heavy rain that the bud now lay III the water
AS she came near this, Mnty clutched at it.,
and this time she held ON tight, aud the swift
brook could not carry her any further. But
she was in the water yet, and chilled and
wet that she thought every minute she would
be obliged to let go and be drowned. But
the sun, which had been under the clouds
nearly all the morning, now came out warm
and bright, and the hly-stalk Strengthened
itself up as the sun shone on it, and it lifted
little Mlnty out of the water, and high up
into the air. Now, everything was 80 bright
and beautiful in the warm summer air that
the bud thought it might as we'll open, and
so it did. Then Minty, she got inside and
took off her wet clothes and hung them over
the side to dry, aud cuddled her little white
self all up in the bottom of the flower until
they were ready to put on When she had
dressed herself again, there came bumble-
bee looking in He did not see Minty, who
hid herself behind petal, but In hs cama
and took all the yellow stuff he could find to
carry home and make honey out of it. Minty
wasn't afraid of him, because he had a white
spot on his head, and that is the kind that
never sting. So when he turned to go Minty
Just got on his back behind his wings, and
away they went, up into the sweet-smeling
air. The old bumble-bee went along verv
well for little while, and then ne began to
think that his honey-bags we're unusually
heavy, and SO he looked around, and there
was fairy
He didn't say word, and poor Ninty, who
was afraid he would make her get off before
she got home, was very glad to see that he
kept straight on, all the same as if she hadn't
been there. Minty never went so far from
home by herself, and she didn't know but that
there might be other dreadful brooks to cross,
and what would she do then if the bee should
put her down? She know he would take her
near home, for she had reIlembered his face
very well, as soon as he cane into the lily. His
name was Briar, and he lived in an old log
near where Mintys home was. But the old
bee did not go straight to his log He stopped
over long fenoe-rai that lay by the side of
a wall, and buzzed about there for some
minutes. At length he found what he was
looking for, and so he came down close to
the log, where colony of bees used to live,
and which was full of round holes that they
had bored, about big enough to put your
little finger in, and when he got just over
one of these round holes he let down the
lower part of his back (where there is
hinge, you know, and poor Minty slipped
off and went straight into the hole in the
fence-rail. Then old Briar he sat down
over the hole and commenced buzzing
Just as loud as he could. Directly there came
to him ever so many other bees, and he told
them what had happened. "You see" said
he, this sort of thing has got to be stopped,
or we shall have them riding on behind MS
all the time 1t isn't as if we were the idle
butterflies, and fit for nothing else than to
carry these fairies about wherever they want
to 60. move we make an example of this
one."
Make an example of poor little Minty, in
deed who had never done such thing be-
fore, and would never have done it again had
they told her they didn't like it. But they
did make an example of her; for they sent fol
mean old mud-wasp, named Wire, to plaster
up the hole, and he just went to work aud
plastered il up, and there was poor little
AIinty shut up in the rail.
AS for Inty, he fell on spatterdock ant
didn't get wet at all, but he didn't see where
Minty went, and he was in terrible way
Ee ran all around the edge of the spatter
dock, but he couldn't get off, aud dom
know what would have become of him (fo
he couldn't swim) if turtle, who kept
ferry little way above, had not heard hi
cries, and putting off, padded down to him
and taking him aboard carried him to shore
There Inty called his friends, and the,
searched all along the shore 70
Minty, but they could see no sign
of her anywhere So they thought that tn
current must have carried her GOO
way down, and as they wished to go as fast a
possible after her, hoping she might hav
hoated on something they chartered the tur
tie, and getting on board as quickly as posi-
BILE, were soon padding swiftly down tn
stream. The turtle, whose name was Corne
had different name for his she'll He calle
it the ''Three Geese, because he actuall
thought that it was as big as three geese
whereas really it was much smaller than one
But even very good people are often very val
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