The Saint Paul globe., 1904-08-14

their ears and whinnying, and all men
seeing nothing at all, until she reached
the house of the President of the
Board of Aldermen. When she told
him that she wanted a home, he asked
her at once what influence she had
And when she told him that she had
none at all, he refused to have any
thing to say to her
Fairy Tale had the same lack of
| success with the Mayor and the Mag
| istrates and the Chief Of Police. She
went from door to door in vain until
/ she arrived at last at little bit of
house where an old shoemaker sat tap
tap, tap-tap, tap-tapping away.
When she told him that she wanted
home, he peered at ,her over his
/ spectacles and said quickly:
"To be surel To be sure, my dear
child. Come right in and be welcome.
l imagine that can find enough for
you to eat"
So Fairy Tale moved in, and be-
cause her retinue could not all crowd
! into the little house most of them
camped outside in the little garden
The gnomes started housekeeping un-
! der the pansies and the mignonette.
The fairies moved into the morning
glories and the petunias, one fairy to
each flower. with spiders dressed in
black and white livery for footmen.
The giants sat together very amiably
on the roof, and the dragons took pos
| session of the furnace and the Chin
ney, where they could breathe forth
! FIRE and smoke without annoying any
one.
All this talent naturally had its ef-
feet on the house Of the old shoe
maker. The flowers in the garden be
came twice as large and three times
as beautiful as any others far and
near. The birds which the old man
had all around him-nOt in cages, but
hopping and flying throughout the
house as they chose--sang the most
delightful songs that ever were heard
after Fairy Tale began to feed them
and speak to them.
All this attracted people to the old
mans shop, and soon he had almost
more than he could do, But the
! gnomes and goblins, who are all fa-
nous shoemakers, helped him without
his knowing it, and with their aid his
shoes became so comfortable and yet
so elegant in shape that he became
extremely popular.
But his new prosperity did not spoil
him. H remained the same simple
old soul, and he did not care for his
fashionable customers half so much as
he did for the children, for whom he
always made his best shoes and to
whom he told stories-wonderful
stories that had all come into his head
since he had taken Fairy Tale into his
house.
Fairy Tale always touched every
pair of shoes before they left the shop
This enchanted them so that they al
ways carried the wearer back to the
old shoemaker TO hear more stories
Thus before long there was never an
hour when one could not find chill
dren sitting around the shoemaker,
listening to him.
So it lasted for many years, until
the shoemaker died from old age.
Then one of those who had heard the
stories when child, wrote them all
down and made a big book out OF
them.
Everybody read it, and everybody
said:
"Ah, no one can tell such tales
nowadays"
But, as a matter of fact, somebody
was telling stories just as good at that
very moment. 1t was the person who
had taken Fairy Tale in after the old
shoemaker died. But who was it and
where?
All, that is the question. You must
seek for the person. You may be
sure that somewhere or another, right
, in your own town, somebody has
taken Fairy Tale in, for she is never
) without a home 1t may be in the
: tip-top story of a sl1yscraper or a
dark basement in a dingy street.
t Wherever it is, if you find the place
YOU will hear stories of which the
| world never tires; and they will all be
new and not a bit hard to understand.
, JULIUS MULLER.