ow being of gold.
Bunny ran back to the Queen and told her he thought Orianna the very
prettiest of all the Fairies. "But what is it that shines so on the
tip of the arrow?" she asked.
"Oh, that is the love she shoots straight into the hearts of all the
Indians," replied the Queen.
"Orianna flies up through her tree house to the tallest branch and
shoots her love-tipped arrow straight into the heart of all Indians,
and so you see the children need never be afraid any more of dreaming
of Indians, for all Indians are good and Orianna is always on the
lookout from the top of one of her homes, and that is the reason she so
seldom comes to visit us."
Just then Orianna came to bid the Queen good night, and Bunny White ran
off to his home, but the next morning he was up bright and early to
look for the wigwam trees.
But not one did he find, for the Fairies are very clever, and who ever
did find the places where they live; but for all that we know, there
are Fairies, and now that Orianna is taking care of the Indians no
little boy or girl need ever be afraid of Indian dreams, because the
Fairy Queen has given them a Fairy.
OLD NORTH WIND
[Illustration: Old North Wind]
Old North Wind lived away up in the North Pole Land in the winter, and
there her children, the Icebergs, grew.
Old North Wind was very proud of her huge children, and when the long,
cold winter was at an end she said: "My big, strong children, come with
me. We will float away from this land where there is no one to see
your beauty and go to the seas where the ships are sailing.
"Of course, you all cannot go, but I will take the three big brothers
because they are the strongest, and show the old South Wind and the Sun
we are stronger and mightier than they."
So the three largest of the icebergs broke away from their brothers and
sailed away with old North Wind, who blew her chilling breath on them
as they went along.
"Ah, my beauties," she said, "I will make you so strong that no breath
of harm can come to you, and you shall crush the big ships and make all
who see you tremble with fear."
The Icebergs believed old North Wind, for they had never been away from
North Pole Land and did not know anything about the warm South Wind, or
how warm and melting Mr. Sun could be.
So they sailed and sailed until they came to the big ocean where the
ships had to cross as they went from one land to another.
Old North Wind kept close to h
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