The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-01-24
STARS. A AsLuMsER STORY.

.S.s % three years old. Every night when lie mamma puts him to bed she sits be- side him, and sings to him till he is fast asleep. The other night Dadys mamma had tucked him up nice and snug in his he'd. and heard him repeat his little nrayer, when Dady said: "What will rou sing about tonight, mammaf
 aWhat would you like to have me s;ng aboutr asked mamma.
 aSing about the bears and lions," said Dady.
 Mamma laughed heartily. "Why Dady," said she. what do l know about bears and lions2 No, will sing little hushaby about the stars. When I was a little girl my mamma used to sing it to me. Would you like to hear it ?"
 "Yes," said Dady.
 Then you must shut your eyes and be very still," said mamma.
 So Dady closed his eyes, and was very quiet while his mamma sang this little lullaby:
 CRADLE SONG.
 The twinkling stars, that stud the skies
 Throughout the quiet night,
 Are only precious little eyes
 Of babies fair and bright;
 For, when the babies are asleep,
 An angel comes and takes
 Their little eyes to guard and keep
 Until the morning breaks.
 So, in the sky and on the earth,
 Those little eyes divine,
 With quiet love and twinkling mirth,
 Through all the darkness shine. The golden and majestic moon
 Beholds these baby eyes,
 And, mother like, she loves to croon
 Her softesf lullabies,
 Her gentlest hushabies.
 The tiny flow'rs the baby knew
 Throughout the noisy day,
 Now ope their blossoms to the dew
 And, smiling, seem to say;
 We know you, stars, serene and small,
 Up wonder in the skies
 You are no little stars at all- You're only baby eyes !"
 The lambkins scamper to and fro
 And chase the night away,
 For they are full ofjoy to know
 The stars behold their play.
 The wind goes dancing, free and light,
 Der tree and hilltop high,
 And murmurs all the happy night
 The sweetest lullaby,
 The gentlest hushaby.
 So let thy little eyelids close
 Like how'rs at set of sun;
 And tranquil be thy souls repose,
 My precious, weary onei
 The still and melancholy night
 Is envious of thine eyes,
 And longs to see their glorious light
 In wonder azure skies.
 The daisies wonder all the while
 Why all is dark above,
 And clamor for the radiant smile
 Of little orbs they lsve;
 And, 10 an angel hovers near
 To bear thine eyes on high.
 So sleep, my babe, if thou would'st hear
 The music of the sky
 Sweet nature's hushaby.
 Scarcely had Dady's mamma finished this song, when the wondrous thing ol which we spoke few moments age happened. Dady opened his eyes to set the lambkins playing in the meadows when, To {! at his side, where his mamma had been sitting but a moment before there stood a beautiful angel, with the whitest wings and the sweetest smile Dady ever saw. Dady was not frightened the least bit.
 "Shut your eyes, little Dady," said the angel, " for want to put them up in the sky for stars"
 "Oh, but it will hurt" said Dady. "No, it will not hurt," said the angel and Dady believed the angel, because angels always tell the truth.
 Then Dady closed his eyes, and will you believe it, the angel put his hands on Dady's eyes and took them right ou, of D ady's head, and it never hurt Dady at all. No, it felt rather nice than other. wise, for Dady's body at once fell into a sound sleep, while Dady's eyes became wider awake than ever before, and could see very plainly the smallest things in the world. Out of the window, away over the housetops, and up into the sky flew the angel with Dady's eyes, and Dady was not frightened, because the angel was very kind and gentle.
 twill he really put us in the sky P thought the eyes, 1" It certainly will seem very new and strange to look down on the world from away up there."
 But before Dady's eyes knew what was being done with them, they were pu, fast in the blue sky, right between two pairs of eyes Dady thought he had seen before.
 "Whose eyes are your" asked Dady, "Why, we are Susie's eyes," said the little brown stars.
 And whose eyes are you ?" asked Dady, turning to the bright little spark. lers on the other side.
 aWe are Trotty's eyes," replied the little blue eyes.
 "Then am not frightened" said Dady.
 "Oh, mo-" said the Susie eyes, "there is nothing to be afraid of up here in the soft, kindly sky. It is really very charm ing"
 aDont you see how cool and pleasant 1t is p asked the Trotty eyes. Really this is much nicer than the close, heated air down nearer the earth"
 So they talked. And there were thou. sands and thousands of other little eyes doing service as stars all around them There were blue eyes and black eyes and brown eyes and hazel eyes, and among others there was a pair of beauti'