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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1925
Page
16
A shepherd Owen woos a fairy maiden who demands her father the King of the Fairies approve their marriage and warns against iron. After a joyous wedding and riches, a bog accident with an iron stirrup tears her away, leaving Owen lamenting as a whispering voice beckons.
A husband Owen visits the Lake of the Still Water where his wife appears on a nearby fairy island. She vows daily meetings but cannot set foot on land. Their happy exchanges continue throughout his life as summer rains bring flowers and playful hide and seek appear in the verse.
Twin girls Isabel and Mary Alice plan a cherrying trip with Paul at Carson farm. Mary Alice, famed for lateness, misplaces her basket leading Paul to hint at using her hat. She finds the hat in a tree then learns to keep her things in place and not keep others waiting.
In Cornwall, the saint Neot calmed predatory crows by promising to protect villagers crops. He built an enclosure near the church where flocks of crows roosted, allowing worshippers to attend Sunday Mass without fearing loss to birds. The tale ends with villagers freed from daily crop guards.
Two Turkish cadis, rivals in a city, hear rumours that one seeks the king’s son as heir. The western cadi asks for clemency and urges restoring the eastern cadi’s office. The king pardons both and reaffirms their duties.
A humorous woodland scene features Billy Opossum and Johnny Stork debating sleep positions while Polly Bat and a pig join in. Peter the red squirrel hides his laughter as an Echo fairy and an owl offer gentle moral on fashion and tolerance before the animals drift to sleep in their preferred ways.
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