The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-05-18
THROUGH THE VALLEY.

The fearful lines had gone now. The terrible
elephants with bright red tusks had stopped fight
ing. The snaky-haired witches with white white
faces and eyes that looked like pieces of red-hot
coal had sailed away off into the air on their broom
sticks. The COLLINS with their hateful yellow bod
les and great pop-out eyes had gone out right
straigt through the wall dear little bit of fairy
perched on the foot of your bed, had waved tiny
hand to and fro to and fro just like that, and away
had gone all the awful things that had been trying
to catch you, and grab you, and to throw you into
fiery furnaces for years and years and years! The
fairies had always been kind to you, but you never
could forget them for this. And then-you opened
your eyes, and "I'm so hungry" what you said,
though you guessed you must be getting deaf, for
you could hardly hear it yourself. And then, the
funniest thing happened. Mother gust threw her
arms around fathers neck and cried like a baby.
Cried cause you were hungry! That was pretty
meant And then grandmother came into the room,.
and gave YOU a spoonful of milk. A spoonful Of
milk to a starving grill Oh, how could they be SUCH
stingy pigs when it was years and years since yoI
had had a mouthful to eat The dear little fairy
would fix them, just she had fixed the other wick
ed things You shut your eyes tight, but the dear
little fairy had gone! Tighter and tighter you
squeezed them shut, but you couldn't thing but
blacSness YOu were alone All alone with father
and mother. and a grandmother who brought you
a spoonful of milk. The tears trickled down your
cheeks and then, before you knew thing about It
of YOU went to the Land o Dreams.
Remember those long, long days of getting well!
How poor thin little legs, that couldn't even walk
across the room yet, just tingled TO be out IN the
sunshine, running races, jumping rope walking
through woods all sweet and fresh with the smell OF
spring hunting for the first shy anemones, and the
saucv little jack-in-the-pulpits. How white, most
transparent little ears longed to be listening to the
FIRST sweet song of the robin red-breasts, and to the
clad stories the brooks had TO tell they came
rushing down the hills after their long icy sleep!
How bip blue eyes that had cone back most mile
IN vour little head Just ached to be seeing all the
iris in their splendid new straw hats and stylish"
spring Jackets and ali the boys spinning tops and
paving marbles for keeps
II was terribly lonesome lying there, just lying
there ali the time with one but just Father and
Mother and Grandmother and the Doctor coming
IN 10 see YOU Even your Baby Brother never came
oh how terribly that hurt your feelingsl Of
course Mother said that he was coming by and by,
,la+ ebo corldn't let him Just yet but you wanted
-, zoo hin, now You knew that if he'd been sick,
-op'd have gone into the nursery to see him, no
,5o,tar what ANYBODY had said. You'd just have
oo i, ON the slv if you couldn't have got in any
thor yTay. But then-the sigh came way from the
rins of vour toes-you guessed sisters knew how
10 love better than brothers did, anyway
oh If was so lonesome. SO still. Ot course you
leo7ly loved Father and Mother and Grandmother
,,t-,rau # seemed 10 you that even Mother didn't
la,,ol lIf eo much as she used to before you were
- And Won did wish she'd some OF her
,rat,, brioht dresses-you dearly loved her robins
80 bl,,o. NTH the white lace, and her catfy-o-lay
= ~ os the funniest name for colorD with
- lr-,;nl rbbons-instead of that black
,l+' al The time 1t was awful stlngy, you
t,,,,.t far her 10 be saving all her pretty, bright
dresses for other people and wearing ola gloomy