PIXIE CRADLES.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 15

PIXIE CRADLES.

J ■ Some hundreds of years, aso, when s ' I tulips were brought to England.'.fairies I still lived in remote parts of the land. j Eniliih fairies at-first did not like these I : new flowers from the East, ■■ which were | so strange to them. ■ But eventually : they found thtt ..the Tsarlet: cups made I beautiful cradle* f^or their. babies,. es- j peoially when thawr*!* 3 little wind at night to rock.thenibrt their long stalks. And -so,- after; • a';;, time, the fairies grew quite, iiii oftulips. A very old.iady;!nJ>evoiishire set in. her garden,, 9»m«V>..ef--th«'<in«w .bulbs which her sailor »on"liad/brou|ht,;: her from a distant land. -One moonlight night she noticed that the faries were using the blossoms..- for cradles, 'and straight away slanted"- many more of the flowers. -This nleased th» fairies so much that/ they came and .jliyed'£in her garden. '.; :' ■ :! ■;'; * %'-h \ ''■ ■' '■ Som* years afterwards til*, old lady I died, and there came a new tenant, who ! did hot care for flowers at all; and | sowed the. garden entirely: with vegetables. Where the tulips had made a splash of colour, he planted parsley. The fairies were simply furious. They deserted the garden, but (every night returned to try to pull up the parsley. : This is how parsley leaves: came to look , so tattered and torn, v / . j