Little Aliens

Together they retrieved it
MYRA KELLY
AUTHOR OF LITTLE CITIZENS, WARDS OF LIBERTY, THE GOLDEN SEASON, ETC., ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1910
Copyright, 1910, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published April, 1910
To D. M. R.



An ideal is like a golden pheasant. As soon as the hunter comes up with one he kills it in more or less bloody fashion, tears its feathers off, absorbs what he can of it, and then sets out, refreshed, in pursuit of another. Or if, being a tender-hearted hunter, he tries to keep it in a cage to tame it, to teach it, to show it to his friends, it very soon loses its original character so that beholders disparagingly exclaim: Why, it's only a little brown hen! Hardly worth the trouble of hunting.