The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-11-17

pc seen from the road, And as in doing
the sood deeds that joy suggests, one
becomes more, happy still, the fairy
orlane was so delighted with herself
that II she had not been afraid of over
turning her full frail carriage she would
nave begun to dance in the nutshell,
But presently her happiness vanished.
what had happened? She was quite
sure that she had followed the right
road, but, where formerly the forests of
Brocellande had waved the enchanted
mysteries of their deep foliage in the
breeze, there was nothing but a vast
plain, with gaunt, unsightly houses on
1t under sky sullied with grimy
smoke.
whittier have you gone. o green
and golden spaces in which we used to
dance by the light of the stars, you
thlckets of wild rose and hawthorn, you
grottoes where sleep smiled upon mos
sy banks amid music and perfumes,
ana you subterranean palaces, with
| crystal walls on which shone the myr-
| ana busters of living gems? Whittier
nave you gone, Urgande, Urgele,
ALONE, Viviane and Holda the pagan,
ana Melusine the charmer, and you,
| Melandre, and ARIEL and Nab, and IT.
| tana?"
| Poor Oriane, it is in vain that you
| call upon them, said a lizard, stopping
| IN It's flight among the stones.
| Hordes OF men have invaded these
! GEAR solitudes; In order to put up
houses and to open a way for terrible
machines breathing forth smoke and
| names, they have cut down the trees,
burned the rose thickets, filled up your
| grottoes with stones, and all the fairies
nave peen killed. ! saw Habonde, try
ing to escape, die with a little cry I'M
| ger the foot of passer-by like
crushed grasshopper."
On this, Oriane began to cry bitterly
over the fate of her beloved companions
ana over her own destiny as we'll, for
truly II was very melancholy thing to
pc the only fairy left in the world.
| what should she do? Where should
she hide herself? Who would defend her
against the fury Of wicked men? The
first idea that came into her head was
to lily, to stay no longer in this sad
place where her sister-fairies had per-
ished. But she could not travel by
coach, as was her custom. The four
lady-bugs to whom she had always
been so kind, had heard the discourse of
the lizard, and had run away with the
ingratitude Of their kind 1t was a
very hard blow for the unhappy Oriane
the more so as she detested nothing
more than walking on foot
She resigned herself to her fate, how
ever, and set out with tagging steps
among the grasses that were higher
than herself. She had determined to re-
| t1IrC ~ ha of ~ c+e,
in the homegrown wall. The father
and the mother of her god-children
could not fail to make her welcome.
Their nest would be an asylum for her
until the autumn, at least. With such
very little legs one does not travel
quickly, as one does even in walnut
shell, borne by creatures that fly.
| Three long days passed before she came
In sight of the flower covered wall, and
you can imagine how tired she was.
But at last she was going to be able to
rest.
| ut is II" she cried, as she approached
! the wall. "It is 1, the fairy -godmother!
| Come and take me in on your wings,
good birds, and carry me into your
messy home"
| There was no response, not even the
little head Of a redbreast peering out
| between the leaves to see who was
there, and opening wide her eyes, ORR
| ane saw that, In the place where the
nest had been, there was fastened in
! the wall a piece Of white porcelain on
| which was tied telegraph wire.
| AS she was going away, not knowing
| what was to become Of her. she met
woman with basket full of corn in
her arms, who was opening the door of
farmhouse to enter it.
"Oh, madam said she, .'if you keep
| me with you and protect me, you will
have no reason to repent 1t. Fairies,
| like the elves, understand better than
anybody how to separate the chaff
| from the corn. Truly you will have in
me servant who will be very useful to
| you and who will save you much trou-
| ble."
The woman did not hear or pretended
| not to hear her She pushed the door
open and threw the contents of her
| basket into the hopper of machine
| which cleaned the corn without the
need of any elves or fairies.
| A little further on Oriane met on the
| banks of river a group of men who
were standing about enormous bales of
goods, and near the bank there was
ship. She thought to herself that these
| men did not know how to go about.
| getting their goods on board.
Gentlemen" said she, 'if you will
keep me with you and protect me, you
| will have no reason to repent it. I will
call to your aid the strongest gnomes,
who can even Jump about with great
burdens on their shoulders They
would make nothing of transporting all
these heavy things Truly you will
have in me a good servant, who will be
very useful to you and will spare you
much trouble"
The men did not hear or pretendednot
to hear her. A great iron hook low
cred itself from the sky, grasped one
of the bales, and, after brief tour in
the air, lowered it slowly on the deck of
the vessel without any gnome having
had anything to do with it.
Late in the day, the little fairy saw
by the open window of an inn two men
who We're bent over a table playing
oor5c On account of ba n