Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1916 — Fable of a Fairy. [ARTICLE]

Fable of a Fairy.

Once upon a time there was a good little girl. And this good little girl asked her mother if she could go and play in the woods, and her mother said yes. So she went to play in the woods. And she was walking along and walking along, and what do you think she met? A fairy! And she was awfully surprised to meet a fairy, so she said to. the fairy: “Where do you come from?” And the fairy said: “This is where I live.” And the little girl said: “I never heard about any fairies living in these woods.’’ And the fairy said: “No, because nobody ever saw me here before. But you are a good little girl, so I let you see me.” And the good little girl said: “How do you manage to be seen by nobody, even tho they walk right pas’ you every day?” And the fairy said: "I lend them money.”