Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1904 — Fairy Tables. [ARTICLE]

Fairy Tables.

I think that you could never find, no matter how you'd try, A little boy as fond of Rearing fairy tales as I; ( Not Just the kind that grownups tell orl those that come 1a books. But better ones—the stories of the branches’ and the brooks, 1 Or, When I go out all alone m long, exploring walks. The ones the cornfield tells me as I creep among the stalks— The stories of the robin and the cricket and the bee— But wonderfulest of tßenJ all, the story of the sea! The brook is like a music box: it tinkles just the same. Tbe branches swing and sing a song, like playing at a game. The corn keeps talking an tbe time and bowing very tow. I hear tbe birds and singing bugs most anywhere I go. They all tell different stories, and I don’t know which Is best, But one Is way and way and wav ahead of all the rest. The stories of the cornfield, of the brook and of the trees— They're almost stupid after you have listened to the See’S! n takes'a lot of Ilf tic waves to tell the story through. Each one comes running to the shore and says a word or two. And then another takes its place, and It goes back to find Another bit of fairy tats that It hes left behind. I stand, barefooted, on the shoes and watch them one by one. The funny pert about It is the story's never done! Ton pick it up Just anywhere, you stop It when you pleass— There never was a story so ccfrvertent as the sea's! It's all about the mermaids and fits parties that they give. And the princes turned to dotpfifns, and the places where they live. Sometimes the little waves cannot remember how It goes. That's why they all run back So he reminded, I suppose. They peep down at the mewnatSS tn their palaces of shell And then come laughing up agate, with something new to tell. In all tha books of fairy tales Fm sura there cannot be Single one as splendid as -the story of tbe seal -day Wet more Carry! to YoKttfs Companion. A Bkrm of One Acre, At OQrlaud, OaL, Samuel C. Cleek fanned far twenty-seven years an only one acre of Irrigated land. He supparted a wife, Just before dying bought three other acres and left to his wife $4,000 in bank. It is claimed -that Mr. Cteek grew upon his form a greater variety of crops than were produced from a single other acre in America. Tbe remarkable fact that stands out clearly in the life of this man Is the complete success achieved upon this tiny farm by the aid of irrigation water. In Japan an acre is considered a large farm, bat in this western country we are prune to valhe tbe tend by feeagoes and ssetkma, Farm •/ and Ranch.