FLOWERS' NAMES.
What the Fairies Wear.
If only you walk with an open ear
And watch with an open eye,
There's wonderful magic to see and hear
By silently passing by;
In meadows and ditches, here and there,
You'll find the clothes that the fairies wear.
You can see each golden and silvery frock
In Lady's Mantle and Ladysmock;
There's Lady's Garter (which, I suppose,
They wear with the cowslips called Hose-in-hose);
The solemn fairies who ride on owls
Shroud their faces with Monkswood cowls;
And there's other things besides fairy dresses—
There's Lady's Mirror and Lady's Tresses.
Bachelors' Buttons must be for elves
Who have to do up their clothes themselves;
And the tailor fairies use Fairy Shears,
Long cutting-grasses that grow by meres;
And they mend their things with the Spider-stitches,
Faint white flowers that you find in ditches,
And Shepherd's Needle, which you'll see plain
In every meadow and field and lane;
And when they've used them they grow again.
If only you walk with an open ear
And watch with an open eye,
There's wonderful secrets to see and hear
By silently passing by;
In meadows and ditches, here and there,
You'll find the clothes that the fairies wear;
And if you look when they think you've gone
Perhaps you'll see them trying them on.
"The whole of the United States is intensely interested in a baseball scandal revealed a few days ago.
The Grand Judy, which is now investigating the charge, has already indicted eight of the leading players."—Evening Paper.
Mr. Punch wishes his old consort more power to her elbow.