St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-08
FUN IN FAIRYLAND.
Tommie Visits the EIfin Work
shops and Inspects Them.

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Tommie was all alone in big meadow
of flowers, with the sun shining down
on him, when Grin left him in the last
chapter Of our story. Tommie felt very
glad and happy at being in such nice
place, but, as the sun was little warm,
he looked about him for tree under
which he could rest in the shade.
He caught sight of fine large one on
the other side of the field, which looked
trudged over to it through the grass and
flowers, humming to himself as he went.
He had only been seated under the
tree few minutes when he saw large
crowd of little people, dressed in strange
leather and WOODEN clothes, some neat
and clean, while others were all
smeared up, as if they had been
making mud pies OF play
ing with some ones paint pots.
Tommie stood up as they came towards
him and smiled pleasantly and waited.
Soon the crowd was near enough for
Tommie to hear them talking, and so he
said Chow do you do" to which they
replied "Howdy," while their leader, an
old-looking little fellow, stepped for
ward and said: 'Well, young man,
what is your name, and what can we do
for yOu" Tommie explained that he
was just going around and seeing
things.
"What business are you in at hOme"'
said the little old man, ''Or have you a
new patent you want to sell?"
Il don't understand what you mean, "
said Tommie.
''Oh, see," replied the little old man.
.PVhan | nuSt nynlain Won in tho
land of the working fairies: am the old
superintendent. They call me Old Soup
for short, while this little fellow on my
right is an apprentice, who is called a
young ape for short. The rest are all
workmen who are employed here year
after year."
TOnnie thanked the superintendent
for his kind explanation, and chatted
awhile with the WOrkmen. After while
the cold SOup," as we will call him,
asked TOmmie if he would not like to
visit few of the fairy workshops and
see what they could do. TOmmie said
he should like very much to go around
and see all he could, and was just start
ing off when one of the ''yOung apes"
begged to be allowed to go, too. Finally
all three started off on their tour. In
the first shop they came to there were a
lot of fairies with big eyeglasses on
breaking and crushing some stones into
powder. They touched their caps when
they saw cold Soup" and one stepped
forward to see what was wanted.
When he had been introduced to
Tommie he explained that it was
the sand factory; they were max
ing the sand that the sandman carries
around and puts in the children'S eyes
fD q 10 thnn, cIanny WI han If ic for
them to go to bed. From the sand fact
tory they went to the paint factory,
where dozens of little men were making
all kinds of paint, from the common
green to paint the grass and leaves with
to the brightest gold for the sunfiOwers.
Beyond the paint-shOpS they saw a
number of little men building up lily,
some bringing out the leaves and others
fastening the parts together in neat
and WOrkmanlike manner. One little
fellow was up inside fastening the deli
cate petals in their places and Sprink-
ling them over with fine yellow
powder.
AS they went along they saw the busy
wOrkmen making all sorts of things,
some shining up pebbles to put on the
sea-shOre. some making frost work for
old Jack Frost to stick On the windows
at Christmas time and others making
lanterns for the Will O. the Wisps to
carry through the woods at night. Tom
ME saw so many things that he began
to grow tired, so "Old Soup" said they
would take ride on the lake and visit
the shops on the island and under the
water. When they came to the edge of
the lake ''Old Soup" blew little whis
tie, and two large white swans sailed
up to the shore and nodded their heads
to the old man, who told Tommie to get
on one, and he climbed on the other,
and they sailed away toward the Fairy
island.