Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-28
First Prizel


= sent for you. Come, fee with me
to fairyland. Up we flew. higher and
higher, until the earth had disappeared.
DO you see those islands," said the
fairy. They are the islands of dis
content The one ,.earest is called Sell
fishness; the one next to it is calle1
Dishonesty; ard that large one farther
away is the Isle of Untruth, and is
the capital city Of the islands of dis
content.
I'VE will fly up higher and I will
show you where all the good fairies
go. Even those inhabitants of discon-
tent can become fairies, but it takes q
long time for them to work their way
up, beginning at untruth and working
their way to dishonesty, then to sell
hshness. to generous land, fort hon
esty and finally the capital of truth"
In generous land all the fairies wore
silver costumes and had silver wings.
In fort honesty everything the fairies
wore and their wings were golden, and
everything they ate and crank was
silver and gold.
We now entered the capital of truth
1t was taken before the queen of the
fairies, who gave me a seat at her
side upon the golden throne. Some Of
the fairies were singing and others
played upon beautiful harps. The
queen then escorted me to the great
dining room and had me sit beside
her large and most beautiful table
set with silver and golden dishes, all
of which were filled with the daintiest
of cakes, but the principal cake was
angel food.
After the repast the queen asked me
II L believed in fairies, to which / ar
swered Eyes"
You have spoken well, for had you
answered No you would never have
been able to return to earth"
She asked me to enter her golden
carriage, drawn by dapple gold horses.
Then, just as I was entering 1 woke up.
MAUDE EDWARDS.
1927 West Tenth street. Age 49, Grade
five Hobart school
Jessie found herself going up higher
and higher, till they came to a white
cloud floating in the air. The fairy
touched a star that was hanging from
one end Of the cloud Immediately il
opened and the fairy led her in. Jes-
sic looked about her; her eyes dilated
with wonder at finding herself in a
palace of crystal Jessie was rather
tlmid at first, finding herself alone
among fairies, but she soon made their
acquaintance. The queen told Kind
ness chat was one Of the fairies) to
take Jessie to the blue room and give
her royal garments to put on and dress
When she was all dressed the fairy
conducted her back to the presence
OF the queen. The queen greeted her
very kindly and told Jessie that she
would be queen of the royal flowers
Jessie thanked her very much. Then
Kindness showed Jessie through the
palace. Jessie thought she had never
seen such beautiful jewels before. She
soon came back and the queen asked
her If she had enjoyed herself. ''Oh
yes" said Jessie. The queen saw that
Jessie was anxious about something
and asked her if she was displeased
or If any of the fairies had mistreated
her in any way. "Oh, no; but 1 want
70 see my mamma and papa SO bad"
Inc queen was very sorry to lose her
little friend, but she said Jessie might
60. Then she gave her a small pill
and told her to swallow it and she
would find herself her normal size and
home with her loved ones again
PEARL JOHNSON,
649 South Boyle avenue, Second
Street school, grade AT, age H.
There were thousands of fairies and
they lived in a land that was so diff
ferent from ours. The fairy waved a
wand over me and l believe half my
natural size and wings came out on
both sides and carried me away. For a
long time l was so scared 1 could not
speak, and when 1 did the fairy could
not understand me as she had never
learned English. Then she waved the
wand over me again and 1 talked like
the fairies, so then we had a fine time,
and after few days. as I thought it
was, they brought me home, but it was
found that I had been gone twenty
years and that you were married to a
count, and 1 dreamed that the fairy for
got to give back my English to me, so
l could not talk, and I was just going
to kill myself when I awoke.
LLOYD ELWYN WELLER.
Custer Avenue schol, AS grade Age
IL years. S24 KensingtOn road.
you know / was just reading this
fairy book and thinking how stupid L
was to believe in fairies when I heard a
little silvery voice say: Come, JESSIE
my Steeds are waiting and they are
growing restless
81 suddenly felt myself growing
smaller, and there on the arm of my
chair waited a little golden chariot
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