The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-29
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FAIRY TALE II
6y tiary Graham Bonner Ea
THE BRAVE FLOWERS.

" lie 81 DThNcy ho"VlS, CuAu NhS
rainbow fairies. Nov 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 II, 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, 1t 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 q 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"
mo" said the rainbow fairies, I'VE
don't think that you woul 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 a beautiful Ian
guage as you can imagine.
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.
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 n
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 or
the falls. on the rocks and i'm the tiny
crevices.
people like to come down here,
don't they?' asked The flowers.
They're brave, too"
aU-- .Ls.~ b.xa Ton - SniH tho
rainbow fairies.
"We can understand their bravery"
said the flowers. ave know how
they want to come down those many,
many steps, and take this trip across
these little bridges and go under the
fails. That is, rainbow fairies, they
20 back of the falls. The falls are
falling way over there in front, and
in the great space between the falls
and the rocks over which they dash
people can go.
at Is when they're on that trip,
when they're all dressed up La Oilskins,
and when they're getting very wet
from all the mist and water, then it Is
that they see us and, too, think that
we're brave.
"But oh, rainbow fairies, could we
help but stay and see this glory? Could
we leave when all around us are so
great and mighty dashing waters, and
beautiful rainbows in which you live,
which join together in great half cir
cles and then bend down TO kiss the
sparkling water?
"COuld we leave all that, rainbow
fairies? You are here always, always
because here the mist and the sum
shine are chatting most Of the time.
And we like to see you and to watch
you smile in your glorious, brilliant
way.
"They may think we're brave, they
may! The people say as they pass
us:
"'Oh, how can those little white
flowers stand all that rushing water
over them? We should think they
couldn't stick on
Eyes, they may say that, but oh,
who thinks about bravery when there
is great, great beauty to be seen?
We're so happy. We live In a world
Of the most marvellous and glorious
beauty. We're friends of the great wa
terfalls, of the sunshine, OF the spark
ling jewels made by the two jewelers..
Sun and Water. We're not only brave
flowers. We're lucky flowers"