The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-19

FaUcirul story rOr Oid and Youus
BY JAMES RUS f l. LOWELL.
(OpprioL ed b. te Amlo,D

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IOppri0L ed By tae A@hoD
Note This story is specially copyrighted
for rublic ti1u in the Memphis APPEAL BY
special Arrangement with Mr.. Lowell and
bis lubli, hors
Now. Uno.e, you havennt told u
s.oiy 10 ovtrso long, "faid ny niece
Lghiioor "and 10 you mu seil us
one TINS very evening"
aye do, Uncle Do; why can't
Your" AID Copperioes, crowcng be
Nv en- nv knees without much cere.
muny "You ured to have lots OF
them
"My dear children, all the stories
no gsdays are full # CT, and mine
arr Al Of the silly. Old IA hioned kind
Supp | were 10 begin: Once upon
M there was gas who're anne
vas Hydrogen, and he lived in an In
dis rubber bogT
80 10, no, not that kindl' protest.
ed both AZ CLco
"Well, then, on OF the most curl.
GUS "reminiscences relating TO the
co eopt rus los ca g."
snow, y arr reilly too bad, pout-
cd Ligl foot.
"rhen you don't think 1t fair that
when the pie is opened, the birds
sh nd begin to prescbY ! am very
much Of your MI nd about tbat, 30
sha try 70 tell you story after my
own fashion But il is 80 long since |
hay tod one, that am afraid shall
meke mt poor hand at it. You must
let me have my head, re- they say of
horses, and | may g I'D the right round
aft while. so here gofsl
when cur Engl sh forefatheTs came
over to this new land, / canuut hear
that they brought any farIles with
T. 4. Though such thy creatures
iu.. ap but little space, vet do not
think that the Pilgrim Fathers would
have cared for their company, even
thoueh ths MAY Il jwsr mad not been
packed so full OF tables and chairs, "a
we ell know IL was, and | doubt II
they would have bad very good
time with the PILGRIM Fathers at any
rate. II 10 said, know not how truly,
that one OF the company that came
few years later 10 Salem brought with
him IN acorn iom HeNne's oak, un-
der which, you know, lhe good folk
loved 30 dance by moonlight. This
no planted, and a foe tree grew
from IL, and they cay that who.
ever goes to sleep under that
tree at the full of u midsummer
moon will aflerwaId hSve the z II Of
seeing fairies. But | never could fad
out auybody who ever did this except
a man named Hawthorne, and he
either could not or would not tell
whe,e the tree might he found. Some
think it is IN Wit h WOODS at Beytr.
". but for my par could never bear
Of guilds who would lsSe m to 10.
As ael as ] can make our, few En-.
gish fairies did venture over from
tune h time, bat they were never
veIy we'll pleased with ouTg eensWard,
Il WBR so much less soft thuu what
ih y ned been used o, ard wore on
dsn ipe shoes 20 fast. These al went
beck after e Revolution, Tor fairies
are rot fond Of neN things, and they
sua thltthe Good OIL Time was goie,
n var tn c0mc becS A Mr.. D.aks
sys hat hn h H Ssan thom aimee on
the duda1n river, 1ut his story does
not seem very likely one ~
m and | rather think he
on dreamed I after reading what
an o Id poet plmed dayton had told
IA them. II is pretty certain that
X Din Goodieow never came over,
tho GA j have sometimes heard an
oN. shoot "iiol hol' in the woods
very much as he H. said o do. | hard
~ think gladstone Robin, even If be
had come, would have cared to stay
Wlefo even cider is sinful, unless IL
b. turned to vinegar TO keep some
fox faces we'd sDurtd A great
many will The isps, who love to
lead people the wrong way, and sluse
tneu in TO d water againet their will,
found thei way aCrnts he sea, sni
they teem to ike their new hone
very We +. Bat, on the whole, / Thick
il likely thai We have not any real
EugUsh fairies over here now. | have
heard, indeed, OF Du ch kobold who
smuRg ed himself over 70 new Am ter
dam, but / thouid not think him a
90 tier OF very go0d quality,
~ course, You know, a county
Cluld not ct along vrIy veil withou.
hries Of some kind orc h r. Fo
how could baby be born with a 81.
y.rnpl1u 10 his mouth, rr snythng
O. TIA sort, without help from the
iirls2 Nov, we all know very well
that babies are row and then born 30
evan here, 81 here must be somehod
g. manage II for them; and IS that
hind uf tpirS has always beeu done
hy 'aifiss all the world over, tbel,
must be some am1ng rs l WAS NJ
llfn mys II IN t1at way, out know
good many b1ys hat were, an that
mazda me curious 10 ii d out all
Ilud ab ut the 'ailiss that brough
tlr spO ms, At fret | thought the,
Must be Irish ones, they are so apt Il
make bluacers, and that they, per
, .ps, had car id my spoon to som
.othsr body Bu since then / hav
80 ught tbR' | was lot meant to hay
SOY, and th4t am as we'll without il
However, that pa me on hunting ul
tge iairies, nud l lave leaned tina
tare sre come Indian ones here G
1Out the same size as the Europea
hld very much Ike tnem, only tina
they are Of swarthit. hue Toe
7
war le igings made of the little bag
t1af spiders cover their egg
with, and moccssins lelted vef
stiy OF fero down, so tbs
they may psss through our wood
" nout 70 atehiug their legs or leel
Tae5 dress no ly in skrs and q os
VINO cen ado it enr the golden fll
rl bundle 6e 8, wh ca they knoz no,
10 NE licsIy by s,rrtcoug hem o
spid web, by moon igbt with Tia
vrbrg side o0tNa d Lake. aud nv
pfs tney cross n oaHOe made Of aclr
sa-ne rpht il two lsnuhwi e, ps,
az item wuh the iargsf feathers A.,
humm bid, which they 70
,tga We very wen. They sul Us
t1s bow, win winch thay are yer
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