The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-08
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THE BRAVE FLOWERS.


rainbow fairies. Now and then we
wonder how you can ever stay here
and bloom and blossom"
"Oh, rainbow fairies" said the flow
ers, I'VE must stay here. We cannot
leave 1t. or If we. ourselves, leave ii.
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, il is something too beau
! tiful to leave. Can't you understand
| that, rainbow fairies?"
'fOh. 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 glorious life as we do
lead"
| "Still," said the flowers. you think
that we might want to leave it. you
think that little bit"
mo" said the rainbow fairies, 1--WE
/ don't think that you would want to
leave 1t 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 lam
| irao Uin
!. Beside them and over them and all
about them was a great waterfall. In
fact, several great waterfalls, as great
as any in the world.
An the time there was 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.
I, 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.
n don't they?" asked the flowers.
They're brave. too"
v Yes, they're brave. too" said the
: rainbow fairies.
:, I'VE can understand their bravery"
said the flowers. I'VE know how
e they want to come down those many.
S many steps, and take this trip across
, these little bridges and go under the
falls. That is, rainbow fairies, they
i go back of the falls. The falls are
u falling way over there In front. and
In the great space between the falls
and the rocks over which they dash
people can go.
H at is when they're on that trip.
II when they're all dressed up in oilskins.
II and when they're getting very wet
H from all the mist and water. then It is
that they see US and, too, think that
we're brave.
II But oh, rainbow fairies, could we
help but stay and see this glory? Could
u we leave when all around us are so
great and mighty dashing waters, and
!, beautiful rainbows In which you live
,e which join together in great half cir.
IL cles and then bend down to kiss the
IS sparkling water?
n Gould we leave oil that, rainbow
'r fairies7 You are here always, always
~ because here the mist and the sun
- shine are chatting most of the time
70 And we like TO see you and to watch
ID you smile in your glorious. brilliant
S. way.
They may think we're brave. they
d. may! The people say as they pass
"a us:
p "'Oh how can those little white
:. flowers stand all that rushing wafer
over them? We should think they
~ couldn't stick on
" Yes. they may say that. but ~
lie who thinks about bravery when there
pl is great, great beauty TO be seem
6, We're so happy. We live in world
OF the most marvellous and glorious
II beauty. We're friends OF the grea; "a
terfalls. of the sunshine, of the spark
= ling jewels made by the two jewelers.
Iv Sun and Water We're not only brave
d flowers. We're lucky flo3ers.'