The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-11-11
ESTABLISHED IN
MARCH, 1S4S.


iering in the garden lamenting her ina
bility to perform the task, when Habe-
trot appeared and performed the work
for her, so that she was able to return
the yarn to her mother at the required
time. The mother was oveEjoyed at her
daughters industry, and sprang up, ex
claiming, MY daughters spun sa' en-.
"a en-. sa' en- y A laird who was riding by
heard her cry. and interested to see the
Gude-wife's Joy asked if he might look at
the yarn. Then he inquired for the air
~pinster. The blushing girl came for
ward, and her grace and beauty so won
his heart that he took her for his wife
| After the wedding the bride trembied
| with apprehension lest she should not be
50 deft at the spinning g-wheel as her hus-
| band excepted. Once more Habetrot
came to her aid Whether the good
dame was as indulgent to all idle dam
sells does not appear, but this little mai
| den must have been an especial pet.
Habetrot said, Bring your bonnie bride
! groom to my cell He shall see what
| comes of spinning. and he will never tie
| you to the spinning-wheel." The bride
! led her husband to the knoll where Ha-
| hetrot and a numerous company of elves
| sat spinning. They were all bent and
distorted by bending over their wheels,
and their lips were long and hung down
over their chins. why are ye sac lang
| lipit2" asked the laird. One after an
other they answered him, each with
different twist Of their hideous mouths,
1--WE maun wet our thread as we spin;
thus are we sac lang lipit" Then Habe
trot slyly limited that if the little bride
were allowed to spin, her pretty mouth
would grow out of shape too. So the
bridegroom protested that the little wife
should never. touch spinning wheel,
And he kept his word. She wandered
with him in the meadows, and rode with
him over the hills, and all the fax grown
on his lands was sent to Habetrot to be
converted into yarn. r --
But bonnie Scotland is losing all her
elves and fairies, her goblins and her
bogies Education is making war upon
the little inhabitants of the hills and
moors. The brownie can not wash dishes
or sift flower in the house whose inmates
can all read and write and cipher too.
The little fairy folk are vanishing away.
Their merry dances on the green are
seen no more by the young people who
wander over the Scottish hills.
Once amid the hills and moorlands,
Where the fairies used to play,
Holding there their merry dances,
Came solemn form one day.
Knowledge was the name they. gave her,
Ana nef stern, detefm lneu lace,
Hard, uByielding, cold, and smilelesS,
frightened all the fairy race.
md while they were gazing on her, i.s b..
Startled by her warllke mien,
In 81 voice whose accents tTem bied, =
Spoke the gentle fairy queen:
1--WE must stop mirth and music, i
Oh my fairies, gnomeS, and elves;
five would escape dest ruction,
Hasten now to save ourselves.
"Strong and mighty is the stranger
That invadeS our hills to-day,
And when knowledge claims the mooT-landS,
Fairy folk must flee way.
Science comes with Warlike' weapons,
Strikes at rs with ruth hlesS hand
We must go, my little people,
Driven from our native Iand.' a.r--
Silenced was the merry music; -
knowledge wears d changeless face;
LOO,Zs with chilly eyes upon them,
And ihe fairies yield their place. IA.
Slowly, in sad procession,
They have left us by one r.
Elf and brownie, gnome and goblin,
All the.fairy folk are gone. -at+.
Now we miss the little people,
And their fitting leaves US sad .,ts. q
Lost the mystery and the romance
That the Scottish moor-lands had. g p
But the elves that knowledge banished b..
With the Sternness of her looks, '4 Z!
Still we keep their memory with US, ,.-5
Ever living III our books.