Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-22
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FAIRY TALE Fl
THE BRAVE FLOWERS.
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you're so brave, flowers" said the
rainbow fairies. "Now and then we
wonder how you can ever stay here
and bloom and blossom"
"Oh, rainbow fairies" said the flow
ers, 1--WE must stay here We cannot
leave it, or if we, ourselves, leave it,
we must have our family come here
in our places. Our cousins must
come, our sisters and brothers, our lit
tie baby buds.
"You see, it is something too beau
tiful to leave. Can't you understand
that, rainbow fairies?"
"Oh, yes, flowers, we can understand
it." said the rainbow fairies, ''for we
wouldn't leave here for worlds. There
are our relations who live in other
parts of the world, who come out at
times, but we're around all the time.
Oh, such a glorious life as we do
lead"
'Still," said the flowers, you think
that we might want to leave it, you
think that a little bit"
"No," said the rainbow fairies, 1--WE
don't think that you would want to
leave it perhaps, but we wonder how
you can be so brave, so brave to hang
on with all the rushing torrent of wa
ter"
Now the rainbow fairies and the
flowers were talking. Others could
never have heard them talking. They
were speaking in the flower and rain
bow language which is beautiful Ian
guage as you can imagine.
Beside them and over them and all
about them was great waterfall, in
fact, several great waterfalls, as great
as any in the world.
All the time there was a rainbow, sew
eral rainbows in fact; and you know,
| the rainbow fairies live in the rain
bows. They live in them as we live
! in houses, and some live in the green
part. some in the golden stripes and
some in the red stripes.
There were many flowers around the
rapids which were about the falls,
and there was a great deal of lovely
moss, and neither the flowers nor the
moss seemed to mind the rushing wa
ter which ran so wildly past them and
over them and about them.
But the flowers which were talking
to the rainbow fairies were back OF
the falls, on the rocks and in the tiny
crevices.
People like to come down here
don't they?" asked the flowers
They're brave, too"
Eyes, they're brave, too," said tht
rainbow fairies.
eve can understand their bravery
said the flowers. ''We know how
they want to come down those many
many steps, and take this trip across
these little bridges and go under th'
falls. That is, rainbow fairies, the.
go back of the falls. The falls ar
falling way over there in front, ant
in the great space between the fall
and the rocks over which they dasl
people can go.
''It is when they're on that trip
when they're all dressed up in oilskins
and when they're getting very we
from all the mist and water, then it i
that they see US and, too, think tha
we're brave.
"But oh, rainbow fairies, could W
help but stay and see this glory? Coul
we leave when all around US are S
great and mighty dashing waters, an
beautiful rainbows in which you live
which join together in great half eli
c1oc ond tboD hond down fn Hiss fh
sparkling water?
Gould we leave all that, rainbo'
fairies? You are here always, alway
because here the mist and the sur
; shine are chatting most of the time
And we like to see you and to watc
you smile in your glorious, brillian
way.
''They may think we're brave, the
may! The people say as they pas
) us:
| "sOh, how can those little whit
) flowers stand all that rushing waite
) over them? We should think the
couldn't stick on
'sYes, they may say that, but ol
) who thinks about bravery when thel
is great, great beauty to be seer
> We're so happy. We live in worl
t of the most marvellous and glorior
3 beauty. We're friends of the great W
: terfalls, of the sunshine, of the sparl
9 ling jewels made by the two jeweler
: Sun and Water. We're not only bray
: flowers. We're lucky flowers!"