The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-03-09
Observation-Disclosures
THE FIVE FAIRIES.
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There was once little girl VINO
had careless fingers. OF course they
did not really mean to be careless,
but they were always losing her hair
ribbons, and forgetting to button her
frocks, and leaving the dolls out in
the garden all night.
One morning the little girls fairy
godmother came into the playroom.
There had been a party in the doll
house the day before, and the little
girl had not washed the plates and
teacups or brushed the crumbs from
the floor. The little girls pet kit
ten was playing with some tangled
hair ribbons, and the girl herself sat
by the window in mussed up frock
and her hair was not combed.
"Now, my dear, this will never do"
said the fairy godmother. you must
go out and find five fairies to help
you keep tidy. Run along, and mind
you don't come home without them!"
But l don't know which way to
CO." said the child, beginning to cry.
"You must find your way" said the
fairy godmother, "and the five fairies
will know you if you do not know
them"
So the child put on her hat and
started out to try to find five little
fairies who would help her to keep
tidy.
Well, the child went up and down
the streets and the highways, peeping
through the keyholes and into all the
corners, but not fairy did she see.
There were only plain, ordinary, real
folks about. So the child went far
ther still, across the meadows and
down hill, until she came to path
in a deep, dark forest. On and on
she went, until she bumped right into
a queer little red house under the
trees. At the door of the house sat
a fat little man in a red cap, spin
ming. Jane stopped and bowed very
politely.
"Please, sir" she said, "can you
tell me where 1 shall find five fair
ies?"
The little man never said word.
He just went right on sewing so fast
that his needle broke and his thread
knotted.
"Oh, that isn't the way to sew"
said the child. "You should be care
full and not pull the thread so hard"
"Well, suppose you had one dozen
pinafores and two dozen pairs of
knickerbockers and three dozen
blouses to finish before sunset" said
the little man, Grossly.
The child looked, and there were
the pinafores and the knickerbock-
ers and the blouses, all cut out and
piled in the doorway.
"Why, I'll help you finish them,''
she said.
So the child and the fat little man
just sewed and sewed and sewed
When the last blouse was done, the
little man looked up.
"You might go a bit farther on
he said, "to where my brother sits
on the turnstile. Perhaps he has
seen some fairies"
So the child went a little farther
through the forest, and she came to a
turnstile. There on the top sat a Sec
ond little man. He was dressed in
green from he-.. :. foot, and he had
his arms sprec5 cut very wide to
show which way the roads went.
"Please, SIR" said Jane, politely
."can you tell me where l can find five
fairies?"
But the little man did not answer
1--WE been out here for days and
days." he said, pointing to the roads
"and / haven't been able to get dowr
once. Look at my face and hair and
my dusty coat
why, you poor little thing!" SAID
the child. "Just wait a moment ant
I'll tidy you bit"
So she took her pocket handker
chief and busted off the little man.
coat. She smoothed his hair, ant
she brought some water from the
brook in the palm of her hand ant
washed his face.
There, you look much BETTER" she
said.
Il feel BETTER" said the little point
ing man, "but l haven't seen an.
fairies. You might ask my tall broth
er at the fork of the roads If he!
seen any. He is just little wa.
ahead there, looking for his cap"
So the child went down the road
and, just where The little pointins
man had told her, she saw a thirt
little man, much taller than the 9th
sers, but not very big at that. He wa,
ldown on his hands and knees. looking
IN the grass and under the bushes.
'Pins and needles! Oh, my pin
land needless" he was saying over ant
over to himself. what will Thumb
kim say If don't find my cap?"
els this your cap?" asked Jane. q
tshe picked up q little round silve
thing from under Q leaf. It locke,