The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-08

looking out they saw Il neFu Oh COWS
in the barn yard with tags on their
horns marked Alphonse Narcotic.
ABRAMS father sprang from his seat
and went to the barn. Daisy, their
pet COW, was gone!
He came back furious for the first
time in his married life.
who is this that is working harm
to us. For fifteen years we have lived
here contented and happy. W. had
enough and what we had we liked
we'll. / don't want to be rich
Adrian burst into tears. 'Oh faith
err said he, lit is my fault. | met Il
fairy and she seemed to be so su~t'
that YOU would like riches that / told
her to do what she thought best and
this is the result. You are unhappy
for the first time since | can rer1c'h-
ber.'
do YOU hear the boy. VIE? II is his
doing. the darling! He did it to please
us Then we must accept u IN t1e
same spirit
But Adrian said stoutly' Not so
father. | did not want the things AND
] was afraid that you would not IKE
the fairies to interfere. III 50 back
TO the mountain at once and lind tie
fairy and tell her that | am ",td 10 Dc
we'll thought of but that as we are we
wish to continue"
Then little Eloise here began to sob
She who had never had a real doll be-
fore was willing to keep the lovely one
! that she had found in her chair at the
supper table. So Adrian said to her:
you shall have corn SILK dress, TOO
So he left the house and set out fCl
the mountain, and on the way there
he overlook Tommy Saunders.
Hello. where are you going sc
fast?" said Tommy.
I'm going up to ask the fairies &c
take back the gifts of wealth that they
saddled on my parents this evening
About a hundred COWS and a gold pal
and some gilded furniture"
Tommy gasped. You want to give
them back"
Yes" said Adrian, simply. Yen Sos
before they came we were perfectly
contented but now father is sad be.
cause Daisy. the COW. is gone to make
way for the herd, and mother misses
her furniture, and ] am miserable tC
see them so put about, and the only
one who is happy is Eloise who has
her first doll"
well, say. if that fairy doesn't
know what to do with all those cow
and that furniture ! think tina. We
could take care of them and still be
contented. We never had too much
come to us yet.
So Adrian promised to use his influ-
ence, and when they reached the TOP
of the mountain they heard fairy ma.
sic and there was the little red fairy
dancing with lot of her sisters in 4
glen.
AS soon as she saw Adrian she left
her sisters and came to him.
Say" said Adrian, lit was awfuIly
kind of you to give us all those beau
tiful things. but you know that we've
always been happy because we were
so perfectly contented, and now We're
all in the dumps because things are
different. Now if you want to make ne
really happy you will take away III
our gifts except Eloise's doll and oh, -
she'd like, n corn silk dress-and give
them to Tommy here who is disco.,-
tented because he hasn't enough il
you're looking for my happiness iust
do that. 1t won't be hard for you 70
do
The fairy laughed and said: "You
are certainly the queerest family ]
ever came across. | didn't mean your
gifts to be transferable, but as you
seem so miserable I'll see what my sis
tiers say"
She joined the group, and instantly
there arose a sound like that made by
the wind when it sighs through will
lows, and that was the fairies talking
At last the fairy came back ana
said: ''All right. Go home, both of you
but see to it, Tommy, that you show
you deserve your good fortune. We
never meant it for you because you've
been discontinued heretofore"
Down the mountain raced the boys;
but fast as they ran it was sunrise be-
fore they reached Adrian's house.
Mr.. Narcotic was just leading Ddic"
out to the trough. and in his hands
was a tin milk pail. He called oCt
cheerily to Adrian:
It's all right, my son. The herd is
gone and your mother has her old fur
niture back, and Eloise is as happy as
a princess in the queerest looking
dress | ever saw
Just then Eloise came out of doors
in her corn silk dress, and while it was
odd | bought if most boys would have
called it pretty if they noticed it at all
But the main thing was that EIoisa
was happy, and SO was her mother who
came running out to bid Adrian good
morning.
Tommy went on home, and when al
noon Adrian went over to his house 10
see whether the fairies had kept their
word or not he found Tommy and his
father growing and grumbling be-
cause a herd of Devon COWS had come
to them and they had wanted Jerseys
SO | query very much if the 1aries
gift did the Saunders any good. BIT
the Narcotics continued happy to tho
end OF the CHAMBER