The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-17

! She was not sent home that night,
after all, for Dick protested against it in
such strong terms that even Aunt Mar
garine saw that she must give way; but
early on the following morning Priscilla
quilted her aunts house, leaving her be-
longings to be sent on after her.
She had not far to walk, and it so hap.
pened that her way led through the
Identical lime in which she had met the
fairy. Wonderful to relate, there, on
the very same bench, and in precisely
the same attitude, sat the old lady, peer
ing out from under her poke bonnet and
resting her knotty old hands on her
crutch handled stick.
Priscilla walked past with her head in
the air, pretending not to notice her, for
she considered that the fairy had played
her most malicious and i'll natured
trick
s'Heydayfv said the old lady Gt is only
fairies who can permit themselves such
Did fashioned expressions nowadays).
Heydayl Why, here's my good little
girl againi Isn't she going to speak to
mep'
aNo, she's notis said Priscilla, but she
found herself compelled to stop notwith-
standing.
@Why, what's all this about You're
not going to sulk with me, my dear, are
your"
81 think you're very cruel, bad, un<
kind old woman for deceiying me like
thisl''
Goodness mel Why, didn't the jewels
come after alp
s'Yes-they came, only they were all
horrid ones land it is a shame, it isl"
cried poor Priscilla from her bursting
heart.
Artificial, were they? That is really
very oddi Can you account for that at
all, now?s
''Of course can'tl You told me they
would drop out whenever / said any
thing to improve people, and I was al
ways saying them. Amt had band
box in her room quite full of jewels"
"Ahi you've been very industrious,
evidently; it's unfortunate your jewels
should all have been artificial, most I'M
fortunate don't know how to explain
it, unless"-and here the old lady looked
up queerly from under her white eye
lashes-"unless your goodness was ar
tificial too
How do you meanT asked Priscilla,
feeling strangely uncomfortable. ssTm
sure I've never done anything the least
bit naughty can my goodness pos
sibly be artificialry
"Ah! that can't explain; but know
this-that people who are really good
are generally the last persons to suspect
it, and the moment they become aware
of it, and begin to think how good they
are, and how bad everybody else is, why,
somehow or other their goodness crura-
bles away, and leaves only sort of OUT
I side shell behind it, And-Im very old,
and of course may be mistaken-but
think 4 only cay think, mind that a
little girl as young as you must have
some faults hidden about her some
where; and that perhaps on the whole
she would be better employed in trying
to find them out and cure them before
she attempted to correct those Of other
! people. And Tn sure it can't be good
for any child to be always seeing herself
in a little picture, just as she likes to
fancy other people see her. Very many
/, pretty books are written about good lit
tie girls, and it is quite true that child
may exercise q great influence for good
more than they can ever tell, perhaps
but only just SO long as they remain
natural and unconscious, and not I'M
wholesome little pragmatical PROCESSES,
for then they make themselves and other
people worse than they might have been.
But, Of course, my dear, You never made
! such mistake as that's"
Priscilla turned verY red and began b
scrape one of her feet against the other.
She was thinking, and her thoughts wers
not at all pleasant ones.
'sOh, Fairy she said at last. aTm
afraid that's just what / did dol was
always thinking how good | was, and
putting everybody papa, mamma.
Ahck, Betty, Aunt Margarine, Cathie,
Belle, and even poor Cousin Dick-riQhti
fhaye been horrid little hateful prig.
and that's why all the jewels were rub
bish. But, OIL shall have to ro On
talking sham diamonds and things all
/ the rest of my life?v
ftYhat. said the fairy ssaA,,av,a- -...