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Butterflies and Fairies. 



Lily Mordaunt in "Kenelm Chillingly" had some beliefs that make 

 her too fanciful for a real character. One of the most conspicuous of these 

 was her idea about butterflies. She had a green-house inclosed with 

 wire and covered with vines and draperies, into which she put every 

 butterfly she could catch. Butterflies to her were not insects, but the 

 souls of infants who had died unbaptized. If they were taken care of for 

 a year they turned to fairies. So she fed and tamed her colonies of but- 

 terflies, releasing them when she believed their year of life completed, 



that they might be free to change into fairies. 



NELLIE A. WHITNEY. 



