Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-12-26

I'm the chimney" laughed Willie. "what
a funny placo. Don't the fairies get very
dirtyi'
II should suppose" answered his aunt
gravey for she had half belief that these
airy beings we're something more than crcn-
lures Of the imagination-"I should suppose
that nothing touches fairies unless they
choose to let it touch them Rain does not
wet them, fire does not burn them, and SCOT
does not blnckcn them"
Don't | wish | was a fairy observed
Willie. II should then be able to go out in
the wet without Susan crying out, Come in,
Master Willie, you naughty boy; do you
want to kotch your death Of cold! So say
ing, he climbed ON TO a chair, and presently
reached down his money box from a shelf
I've got nincpencc, Hetty,' he said tri-
umphAntlyi and I'm going to save up till
I've got eighteenpencc, and then | shall buy
q present to send mamma"
"Tyo got a shilling" cried Hctty but !
don't mean to send papa anything till I've
saved up two shllings and then l mean to
buy him a"
What Hetty was going to buy for papa was
never made known, her speech being inter
rupted by the entrance Of Susan, who some
what mysteriously summoned Aunt Matilda
from the room.
She closed the door after her; but the chill
dren could hear that their aunt was talking to
some one in the hall, who was sobbing and
crying
They opened the door gently, and ventured
to peep out. There stood Mrs. Dostick the
wagonor's wife, her shawl and bonnet all
powdered with snow, her face very pale. and
her eyes very red. She looked like ghost
The children soon understood her story,
though it was told amid sobs and tears Her
husband had been riding home on the shafts
Of the wagon, had slipped OF, and the wheel
had crushed his leg He had been carried to
the Cottage Hospital in the next parish and
although he had only just received his wages,
no money had been found in his pockets
He had either spent it at the public house. or
it had fallen out Of his pockets, or somebody
had stolen it.
Hotty and Willie crept uoselcssly across
the hail. and each took Aunt Matilda 10y the
hand. Hetty tried to pull her down toward
the right, Willie tried to pull her head down
toward the left. They both wanted to wills
per in her car; but as is often the case with
chldren's whispers, the words were audible
both TO Susan and Mrs. Bostick.
This was what Willie said
Il shall give Mrs Bostcl my nincponcc.
Mamma must wait till I've saved up more
money
And this was what Hetiy said
Take my shilling for Mrs. Bostick papa
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