Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-02-06
THE FAIRY
BUT TERFLY.

Darius, king Of Perrin, hao Deau-
tiful rose garden In his palace GROUNDS,
where he used to wander every sum-
mer day.
One day when Darius was in his gar
den he noticed that there were q great
many butterflies on the flowers, ana
he thought they looked very pretty
30 pretty. In fact. that he determined
to have the walls Of one Of bis rooms
painted pale pink and covered with
butterflies wings. OF course great
number was required to cover the
walls, 80 Darius ordered every one IN
bis kingdom to bring him 100 butter
dies In ten days time.
At the end of ten days the king had
many millions of butterflies brought
to his palace. The workmen then pro-
ceeded to fasten the wings on the
walls. 1t happened that the queen OF
the butterflies had been caught and
was now on the wall with many OF her
subjects. The butterfly king was
dreadfully distressed over the loss OF
his dear wife, 80 on midsummer night
1.-THE only night when all fairies meet
together) he told his trouble to the
queen of the fairies. Queen Nab was
so touched by the king Of the butter
flies' sad story that she agreed to help
him to be revenged on Darius and to
get his wife back.
At midnight Nab sent one Of her at
tendants to the palace OF Darius to
gather all the butterflies from of the
walls and to form them into one huge
butterfly and to give it life.
When Princess Roxana. Darius lit
tie daughter. opened the door OF the
room the next morning she was knock
ed down by the great butterfly. which
escaped, and was picked up uncon-
scious by her nurse and placed In her
bed. The doctor was then sent for.
but when he saw her he said that she
was dangerously Ill and that she
would have to have the greatest care
taken Of her or she would not recover.
After the butterfly had flown out OF
the palace It went In the rose garden
and ate every rose that was to be
found. Then It went into the orchard
and ate all the fruit. and so on
throughout the whole kingdom.
Princess Roxana grew worse and
worse. She had a great desire to have
some roses in her room. but the but
terfly had eaten every rose In the
country. so that 1t was quite impossi'
BILE to obtain any for her.
One night when the doctors. nurses
and her parents were at her bedside
Roxana began to talk. but It was not
to any one in her room. 1t was to the
fairy queen. who told her that II a
magic potion could be obtained and
given to the butterfly she would get
well again and everything in the king
dom world come right. When Darius
heard this he was so glad that he
sent all his slaves out to the noun
tains and woods to gather herbs fol
the potion.
By 7 o'clock the next morning they
had all returned with the required
herbs, which were at once taken tC
Roxana. who mixed all the juices from
the different herbs together. AS soor
as this was done there was great
commotion outside the window. and
when the king looked he saw that II
was the butterfly. He opened the
| window and let It come in. 1t settled
on the floor near the bed Of the prin
cess. Just near enough for her to give
II the potion. When this was done
there was q fash Of violet light which
blinded every one for few minutes
Though they could not see. they hearG
a sound ms Of many insects fyinl
about. After about five minutes they
were able to open their eyes. and the!
saw millions Of butterflies flying about
In the room and futtering one by ont
out Of the open window.
BY the time the last one had gone
Roxana was up. dressed and quite
well again.
The king of the butterflies was 81
glad to have his wife back again tina
he invited Queen Nab to come ant
visit them. The queen was 80 delight
ed that she felt in a better tempe
than she had ever been in before. ~
she sent fairy to restore all the gar
dens In the land Of Persia and t
make them produce more plentiful
supplies than they had ever done b.
fore. Darius and Roxana were yer!
pleased to ace so many roses and als'
butterflies in their rose garden. Da
RUS never harmed them again. and h
passed a luw that II any one KILLED
one they were to be heavily fined.