Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-06-25
SNOW AND FIRE.

aud his wife, and they had no chill
dren. which was great grief "a
them. One winters DAY the couple
were standing outside the cottage. and
the woman was looking at all the lit
Tie icicles that hung from the roof.
She sighed and turning to her hus.
band said
Il wish had a. many children as
there are icicles hanging there.
Nothing would please me more.
ethics replied her husband,
After a short time little girl was
born, who was as white as snow and
as cold as ice. II they brought the
child anywhere near the fire she
screamed loudly till they put her back
into some cool place. The little maid
thTpye wonderfully but she was not
altogether easy to bring up, for all
summer she insisted on staying in the
cellar. and in the winter she would
sleep outside in the snow. and the
colder 1t was the happier she seemed
TO be. Her parents called her our
snow daughter
one day her parents sat by the fire,
taking over the extraordinary behay-
iOr OF their daughter. who was dis
porting herself in the snowsJorm that
RACED outside. The woman sighed
deeply and said Il wish had a tire
SOM The man laughed at this, but
he ceased to think it a joke when
shortly afterward there was born
boy, who screamed Justify till he was
put quUe close TO the fire. and who
nearly yelled himself into a tit if the
snow daughter came anywhere near
him. The snow daughter herself
az oided him AS much as she could.
The parents called the boy simply
our fire SON. name which stuck
to him all his life He was as red as
fire and as hot to touch, and he al
ways sat on the hearth quite close TO
the fire and complained Of the cold,
il his sister was in the room he almost
crept into the flames, while the girl
on her part always complained Of the
great heat il her brother was any
where near In summer the boy al
ways lay out in the sun. while the
girl hid herself in the cellar, 80 It
happened that the brother and sister
came little into contact with each 9th
erin fact, they carefully avoided 1t.
Just as the girl grew up into a beau
tltul woman her father and mother
both died one after the other, Then
The fire son who had grown up IN the
meantime INTO fine, strong young
man, said to his sister:
Il am going out into the world, for
what is the use Of remaining on
here?'
Il shall go with YOU she answered,
for except you | have no one in the
world. and have a feeling that IL we
set out together we shall be lucky
The fire son said; Il love YOU with
all my heart, but at the same time |
/ always freeze If YOU are near me, and
YOU nearly die of heat II approach
YOU. How shall he travel about to.
gether"
Don't worry about that replied
the girl "for I've thought It all over
and ave settled on A plan that viii
make us each able to bear with the
other. See, | have had fur cloak
made for each Of US. and If we put
them on | shall not feel the heat Sc
much nor you the cold So they put
on the fur cloaks and set out cheer
fully on their way, for he FIRST time
in their lives quite happy together
For a long time the fire son and
The snuw daughter wandered thru the
world, and when at the beginning o.
winter they came TO big wood they
determined To say there TIL spring
The fire son built himself hut whers
he always kept w a huge fire. whit
his sister stayed outside night ant
day, Now It happened one day tina
The king of The land held a hunt II
this wood and saw the snow daugh
ter wandering about in the open air
He wondered who the beautiful cir
clad in such garments could be. an,
he stopped and spoke to her He 500
learned that she could not stand hca
and that her brother could not endur
cold The king WAS so charmed b.
= the snow 1apghler hat he asked he