The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-15
BY MIGNoN HALL

Once upon a time there was little soft white chicken
 He lived in BirminGham-out at Wylam--where there are lots of trees and where men cut down the bushes and pile them Into things they call brush heaps.
 This little chicken was one of five white brothers. and lots of times when he would drink water and look up into the blue sky, he would hear his little mistress say;
 Isn't he the cutest little thing in the world! I could just squeeze him to desth"
 That tickled the little white chicn- on, and he would lie down on the ground and spread his little fuzzy wings out and just laugh and laugh. he was so pleased
 One day he happened to be under & little bush close to where his mis- tress and four or five other little girls, all dressed in white, were tell ing stories about small people named fairies.
 Bob-for that was the chicken $ name-began to wish he could see a fairy. He went around looking for one under every blade of grass and used to slip off from his mamma 10 try 10 find one. Once he talked 10 butterfly about it, but while the butterfly knew hundreds of fairies. he said he couldn't possibly bring one around and introduce him to a chicken. because fairies had to come to everybody just by themselves just because they wanted to.
 At that the chicken made 8 very ugly remark about the fairies.
 The mean thngs!' he said. Y want them to let me alone then! l
 I Nf not. bet you they're not nice to
 And he flappcd his wings aAd ran away as snippish as a chickenNcould.
 Now it happened that a papa fairy heard every word he said. and went away to tell 1t to the lady fairies, and the children fairies who lived un- der q big brush heap.
 Anybody who makes remark like that always will be sorry some day" said the papa fairy And in just q little while something hap pened that made the story come true A big dog with glaring eye came trotting through the yard. and the first thing he saw was the little white chicken. And the white chicken saw him and was scared to death.
 Help! help" he screamed and suuawked, and cried for his mamma To come. But his mamma was away over on the other side of the yard and couldn't get to him Son jump ing and yelling, he rushed straight ahead to the brush heap
 A fairy pulled him in there, but he did not know 1t.
 Now, of course, you realize that fairies cannot be seen by anybody or chicken, either-unless tn: | fairies wish to be seen. So, for q ! little while the shivering chicker | thought he was all alone. It was awfully dark under the brush pile | Baby chicken had never been under l one before, so he thought 1t wa' night, and drifted off to sleep mur' l muring Peep! Peep"
 1 When he walked up what did he see about him but little fairie: everywhere! They had him penneo up with throne on one side ana | net of golden web on the other, So l that he couldn't get through ant l everywhere else solemn fairies with whiskers and lady fairies, with wings l and without wings, were situnt around him-and they were looking at him very sadly.
 The chicken remembered what h' had said, and began to act meai again .u A.
 ~ want something to eat, h' l chirped In a nasty voice.
 Not A fairy said word. Chlckei began to scratch the ground Just ts make the fairy's floor dusty.
 But nobody said word--for iairie' never say anything mean They