The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-09-27
Young Folks.


"Oh, mother, / have had such
And her mother said
"What was IT, Katie2 tell 1t NO."
SO she rubbed her little eyes, and be.
gan:
III dreampt was good fairy, In a
green gauze dress; and i had wand
and when saw any one sick, or sorry,
or In distress, 1 just tapped them with
my wand-that'sa q long gstick you know,
mother-and in minute they were well
and happy. And 1 like to SEQ them
glad and they loved me 80. Oh mother,
l wish could be good fairy but l
know l can't for there are not really
such things as fairys at all, you know"
And Katie looked quito unhappy for
a minute.
But her mother asked
"What would you do, Katie, If you
really were fairy? Come now, think
IL over, aud tell me-"
80 Katie thoughts minute very hard,
and then she said
"I'd make baby all right, the minute
he tumbled down, and not let him cry
bit. And granny's dim eyes should see
well, and the stitches In her knitting be
picked up the minute they fell. And
poor sick BERTHE, in the cottage, should
get better, and not fret 80, rs he does
Aud-and, father should havo lots of
money to buy that piece of land he ewants
| for school. o nanny what big tap
I should have to give for that and then
up would jump the school with porch
all covered with flowers But, o dear !!
/ mustn't think about it, for it only
makes me so sorry that l can't be a
good fairy"
Katie's mother smiled at this, and
answered:
"But l think you might be a good
fairy, dear, If you liked"
Katie jumped up, wide awake now.
so mother! What do you mean? Do
tell me! But, o dear /! / hear granny
calling me. Wait minute"
And off scampered Katie to do an er-
rand for granny.
Katie's father was clergyman, so
Katie saw and heard great deal OF
other peoples troubles, which perhaps
was the cause of her dream.
That evening when baby came down
for his half.hour in the drawing room
he was fretful, and when it was his bed
time he would not 60 unless Katie did
too.-Now it WAS not Katie's bedtime,
and she wished very much to stay but
the little brother put up his lip, and
cried for her.
| Katie half meant to let him be carried
Off sobbing but she heard tiny whis-
per from her mother of'good fairy" A
light Came into her eyes,and she trotted
off with baby, who was always happy
with her.
Next day, granny lost her spectacles.
Katie was busy making bead-mat ;but
something said to her mot her mother
this time), "good fairy" and down went
the beads, and down went Katie on her
knees under the sofa looking for the
spectacles.
"Good little fairy" said granny, rs
Katie appeared with the lost treasure.
"I must try to be q fairy to sick Ber-
tie, too" said Katie to herself.
30 each day she went down the lane
with flowers, or toys, or an amusing
story and though it was dull sitting in
a dark cottage, she tried not to mind
that. And BERTHE liked her visits very
much.
SIT does him all the good in tho
world, Miss, your chatting to him Bit"
said his mother. "Why, the doctor
came yesterday, and said he wasn't the
same child. 'Amuse him. says he, 'and
he'll get over this"
Katie was actually doing all she had
thought the good fairy could do, and
without the wand; all except the school,
at sleast; and wish and plan how she |
would, she could not make that appear. |
No: 1t certainly wanted the fairy's tap,
tap, to do that. And Katie almost for
got the school in the visit of an old un-
cle-who was gouty, and sometimes |
cross, and whom Katie was very much |
afraid of at first. But by.and.by she |
grew sorry for him, when she saw how |
his leg hurt him and she forgot to feel
angry that he did not like baby in the
room, and often scolded Muff, her dear
little dog. And, by-and-by, out of sheer
pity, she grew to wait on him as she
did on her Notwithstanding him
the newspaper, telling him when it
was time for his medicine, and making
herself so busy attending to his com.
forts. that she never had time now to
think about fairys. One day, Uncle
Dick was very chatty, and something
in the conversation turning on dreams,
Katie told her dream again. And ever
after that, Uncle Dick called her his
good fairy, and he brought her green
winter dress-not gauze, but good warm
stuff-and used to joke her about the
wand.
"You haven't got that" he used to
say, ''or else should see that school
popping up in the village. All, we must
wait bit for thatw
But how long do you think they wait
ed?
Only till her birthday. Then Katie
found On her plate an envelope All
sorts OF thin cracking paper came out
Of the envelope, on which was written,
"a wand for my good fairy, with which
TO tap for the school,"
Uncle Dick had put bank.notes-s3OO
in that envelope, and Katie's father
was to have his school directly.
"Mother," said Katie, her eyes glis-
1ening, 81 needn't wish to be a good
AIRY any moro, need I?"
Darling" said Katie's mother, and
and Uncle Dick, 1--WE
hink you are already. y."-CHILDREN's
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