The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-26
THEY WERE SURROUNDED By THE FRYT4LE FOLK

- careful Of their clothes When Paul was not wear
ing his golf suit he was dressed in black velvet with
a lace collar his hair was always brushed and MS
shoes polished like mirror Pauline, being a girl
was OF course always very prim and correct, but
suspect she would have been less had she not been
always with her very sedate brother. When she
sometimes expressed desire to ride in a merry-go-
round he put on a severe look and asked her if she
was infant and offered to get baby carriage for
her, He had long since laughed her out of the
habit of playing with dolls or jumping the rope
and she was rapidly becoming as serious as Paul
She knew much as he did, too, about the various
myths; could explain what jack-o' lantern or will
o-the-wisp Is Ia very precise TERMS and yet, down
IN her heart, she sometimes was sorry that be
would not allow her to believe that fairy tales were
at least partly true.
You see she was very young, and therefore It was
not to be expected that she should be as firm and
steady as her 10-year-old brother in her unbelief
When Paul caught her sorting over her dis
carded dolls IN secret he lectured her severely and
made her read Darwin as punishment while he
stood by and smoked a cigarette. Paul often de-
elared he sorry that there were no giants ogres
dragons, for he felt that these things would be
worth the attention of a boy who despsed ordinary
play and childish pastimes, and he was resolved
that when he grew up he would be lion tiger or ee-
plant hunter in the jungles.
The two often Tambled in the woods for the
purpose of studying botany and geology, and when
they held the conversation / have Just quoted they
were in a glen deep in the forest, where the sum
light checked the messy earth with tiny golden
patches, and where the ferns grew waist high The
trees were all huge and gnarled with great messy
bols, and in places the pine needles carpeted the
ground thicky that they went along as noise
lessly as mice
Suddenly they came to an opening where the
tall grass came 90 their shoulders. and as thew
pushed their way through Pauline exclaimed:
Look there's a fairy ringl
ooh fudgep cried Paul "You know that is
merely a superstition Those so-called fairy rings
in the grass are formed by species of fungus called
the Roodleus Circuformis, a sort Of minute toad
stool which destroys the grass in a circle. / wish
you'd get over calling things by wrong names %
They both looked carefully at the fairy ring for
a moment, then Pauline remarked:
Sarah Smythe says that her mother told her
that if you stood inside of fairy ring and made
wish it would come true"
Paul was very angry at his sister for repeating
such foolish statement. He took ler by the hand
and with some slight objection on her part he led
her into the ring of dead grass. Standing IN the
circle he said: snow make a WISH you silly goose.
and see what viii happenl"
Pauline much confused, put her thumb in her
mouth and said
Il guess / don't want to make a wish. Tt looks
very silly, but somehow [ am afraid"
"Poohl What is there to be afraid Of? III make
a wish" cried Paul. 81 hereby wish all demons.
fairies, COLLINS and other fairy-tale folks and