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THE FAIRIES' SECRET
Author unknown ~ Illustrated by Mabel B. Hill
This children's story is taken from the 1917 addition of New Barnes Readers
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Saturday had come at last. Jane was sitting on a low limb of an apple tree. It was a sunny June afternoon. Flowers bloomed, birds sang, butterflies flitted everywhere.
"I wish I could see a fairy," Jane thought. "I would ask her how to be beautiful." And thinking, thinking, thinking, Jane was soon fast asleep.
She dreamed that the fairy queen flew with her to fairyland. The grass was like green velvet. The birds sang their sweetest songs.
In the green fairy meadow was a ring of tiny fairies dressed in yellow. As they sang and skipped, Jane heard them say, "We are the Do Right Fairies."
"Will you let Jane play with you?" asked the queen.
"Is she a Do Right girl?" asked the fairies.
"I'll try to be," Jane said, and into the ring she went.
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