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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



New and Better Kinds of Fairies. 



Oftentimes children, and sometimes 

 even the grown-ups say that they are 

 sorry that the age of fairies seems to be 

 over, and yet there are more wonderful 

 fairies of fact than the old romancers 

 ever dreamed of. Creatures tinier than 

 an}^ they could imagine are working 

 day and night building things for man. 



and others, again, tearing them down. 

 The birds themselves can be thought 

 of as fairies with wings, working every 

 moment for man's good, searching out 

 the insects from the crevices in the 

 trees and adding beauty in color and 

 sound to man's life. The scientist has 

 found more real fairies than all of those 

 which have added to the lore of elf and 



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