Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1913 — OUR BOYS and GIRLS [ARTICLE]

OUR BOYS and GIRLS

The lily of rife Valley! - - ** , '*' ,> +*ot*b*» Once upon a time, a long while ago, there lived in a tiny house near a large garden a fairy mother with ever and ever so many fairy children. All the children were dressed alike, in green slippers and stockings, white suits, and white pointed caps with a dewdrop shining on top. One evening the fairy mother said, “You may take your small Ivory buckets and fill them with dew from the flowers In the garden, but be sure to come home before the sun rises.” Oft they started, running and swinging the buckets in their hands; but, when they reached the garden, instead of working, they began to teeter on the grass blades, and play hide-and-seek among the flowers. And, do you know, they played and played all that night, and forgot all about the dew and the Ivory buckets, till the great red sun could be seep. It was past time for going home and too late to gather dew. What would the fairy mother say! “We’ll hang our Ivory buckets on these stems, and to-night come and fill them,” they said. Then they went home, and they felt very sorry when -they saw how sad their fairy mother looked. As soon as the sun went down, they hurried to the garden. First one little fairy, then another and another, tried to pick his bucket from the stem where he had left It, but it was of no use. All the buckets were tightly fastened to the stems, and turned upside down. They have been fastened that way ever since, and perhaps, if you look In your garden, you will find some pf the fairies’ Ivory buckets. —Emma L. Hammonel In Kindergarten Review.