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"I'm afraid the sun is cooling," remarked a third. And it was the last remark that roused in the Sun-father a sense of his dignity and responsibility. "I never knew such beings as the earth people," he said, angrily. "The weather is never right for them. It is always too hot or too cold, or too wet or too dry. I can never satisfy them, and now they add insult to injury by saying I am cooling." Then the Sun-father indignantly hid his face behind banks upon banks of clouds, and the earth people had the wettest day of the year. "That served them right," said he, peeping out in the evening to view the dripping landscape. "That served them right; to-morrow I'll begin to show them what I can do. How dare they hint that I am wearing out?" Next morning, the Sun-father called his children, the Sunfairies, around him. There were millions and millions of them, and the sight was one of unparalleled magnificence, but it could not be seen from the earth because of the clouds between. "The earth people are dissatisfied," began the Sun-father, "not entirely without reason, I admit, for they had a deluge yesterday. But to-day it is my pleasure to send among them seven sun-fairies, who shall fly on a sunbeam to the earth, and remain there till the evening. When they return I shall be glad to hear what they have done." Then the Sun-father shot forth a brilliant sunbeam, upon which, side by side, sat seven lovely fairies. All day long these fairies darted hither and thither, never still, but always busy. And, as they worked, the earth people became more cheerful. "It is clearing up; the spring is coming at last," said they. The evening came and seven happy little sun-children flew back on their sunbeam, to their father, the Sun. The fairies looked charming, for each had a dress to match her name. The first fairy was Sun-fairy Red. "A great many things. 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Washington, Boston, Mass. J. R. WOOD, Passenger Traffic Manager GEO, W. BOYD, General Passenger Agent (Continued from page 166) "Well done," said the Sun-father. "Now for the next Sun-fairy. What have you done to-day, Sun-fairy Indigo?" "Nothing at all except help the others. If you had sent me to India, father, where grows the indigo plant, or to North America, where lives the indigo-bird, I would have colored them as indigo as my gown." "All in good time, daughter," said the Sun-father. "Now for the last of the Sun-fairies. What have you done to-day, Sun-fairy Violet?" "I flew down to a bank where grew some wee, modest flowers, who hid themselves in the grass, though some of them lifted their faces to me. They were of the sweetest fragance, and of many shades- from pure white to the deepest, darkest purple. They were all called 'violets,' though none but they whom I kissed became as violet as my gown." "Is that all?" asked the Sun-father. "Not quite, father," replied Sun-fairy Violet, shyly; because we all joined in making a glorious beam of light, which cheered the earth and made everything begin to grow." "And you shall now make something else," said the Sunfather. "Below, I see a cloud of raindrops. I command the seven Sun-fairies Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet-to place themselves in front of the cloud and make a rainbow." The sunbeam, on which the seven fairies sat clasping each other's hands, shot forth once again, and there was gradually formed a beautiful rainbow, which glowed with the richest colors, for all the earth people to see. Hundreds looked upon it, and remembered God's promise to the world. Then the Sun-father recalled the seven Sun-fairies. "You make a splendid rainbow," he said. "To-morrow I shall send you, and all the other Sun-fairies, to the earth again." And when the morrow came, the Sun-father kept his word. Long before people were awake, all the clouds were rolled away, the sky was painted blue, the leaves were unfolded, and the flowers sprang up in every field and hedgerow. The bees came out for their first airing, even the frogs woke up, and the birds almost burst their little throats in singing songs of welcome to the spring. "What a delightful day! Spring has come at last," said the earth people, though very few of them thought of the millions and millions of Sun-fairies who were hard at work in every nook and cranny. It was they who painted the sky, and coaxed the flowers to grow; it was they who made the day delightful, who brought the spring, and who woke the small creatures from their winter sleep. And when these millions of Sun-fairies returned to their father, the Sun, he said: "I wonder if the earth people think I'm cooling now?" -From" In Nature's Storyland," by Edith Hirons DIRECTIONS On the blackboard, sketch a little Dutch village, with gaily-painted red-tiled houses; dykes; canals; wind-mills; and gardens. The front of the school-room represents a Dutch garden. Choose an older boy to be the Farmer; an older girl for his Wife; six small boys, varying in size, to be the sons Hans, Otto, Paul, Jan, Joris, and Petrus; six small girls, varying in size, to be the daughters - Bertha, Gretchen, Lysbet, Mina, Rosa, and Betje. Three of the girls wear Dutch caps of red paper made to look as much like tulips as possible; the other three yellow ones. The six boys may represent the wind-mills in any simple ingenious fashion. They may stand back to back two and two- each with arms held out stiffly to show the four arms of a wind-mill; they may stand in a row, each with lifted arms; or they may make small wooden wind-mills which they hold in front of faces. Farmer and Wife may show any simple Dutch touches in costumes. The other children of school, if desired, may wear Dutch caps and hold paper tulips or wind-mills, and join in last song. (Farmer and Wife are in the garden. Farmer pumps water, fills sprinkler, and waters flower-beds. Wife sorts and plants bulbs. This pantomime is carried on as naturally as may b while they talk together. Boys and girls are in the garden, running about as if playing tag or hide-and-seek.) Wife There, I've planted the red tulips and the pink tulips, the yellow tulips and the white tulips, the lemoncolored ones and the variegated ones Farmer (pausing beside her) Don't forget the stormy tulips, Gretchen. Wife I put them in yesterday, Petrus. Now I wish all of them golden and red and white and straw-colored were up and growing and blossoming Farmer I might as well wish my wind-mills - all six of them were built and turning round and round. Wife (laughing) So you might so you might. But it takes time and work, and plenty of both - to set windmills going and tulips growing. Well, I'm going now to the cellar for the rest of the bulbs. Farmer I'll go along, Gretchen. (They go away together talking. As they do so, the boys and girls troop forward laughing and talking all at once. Such words as "Father," "Mother," "wind-mills," and "tulips" are distinguishable.) Hans (tossing up his cap) Let's do it say I. Bertha Quick, before they return. (Boys and girls run and take places-boys as wind-mills, girls in front of flower-beds as tulips. As they do so, Father and Mother are heard returning. Boys stand stiff and straight, as much like real wind-mills as possible, girls sway a little toward each other as if talking. All as sober as possible.) (Continued on page 170) |