Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1906 — The Autumn Fairies. [ARTICLE]

The Autumn Fairies.

So many little fairies are kept busy in the fall, I wonder how the fairy queen can supervise them all. Why, a million fairy artists, each on* with jiaint and brush. Are out at early dawn light when th* woods are wrapped in hush. There each tiny fairy artist gets astride a little stem And works away for dear life, with no critic to condemn. He mixes up his colors and adorns each dainty ieaf; Here a touch of scarlet glory or a purple hint of grief Or a golden gleam of sunshine that will last when sunset fades. No one but a master artist could so fling, the lovely shades. There are dainty witching fairies work* ing busily all day, | Teasing fruits to blushing beauty, te*r*i ing chestnut burs away, Brightening up the fat young pumpkinal fit for jack o’ lantern time. Don’t you wonder, little children. ho*l they ever find their way Round the earth, so busy striving farj your pleasure every day? What! You don’t believe in fairies? And you say it’s only frost? Why, my poor, poor little wise heads. What a lovely world you’ve lost! —Washington Star