Chapter I: Front Matter

THE REAL FAIRY FOLK

_THE
Real Fairy Folk_

_BY
LOUISE JAMISON_

_ILLUSTRATED
BY
JAMES M. GLEESON_

_NEW YORK_ _GARDEN CITY, N. Y._
_DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY_

_MCMXII_

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN
LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

_To my Mother and Father this little book is lovingly dedicated_

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. In the Old Willow Tree 3

II. Two Funny Gentlemen and What They Said 13

III. Ruth and the Wonderful Spinners 33

IV. Mrs. Mosquito and Her Kin 51

V. Ruth Hears About Some Water Babies 64

VI. Ruth Goes to a Concert 82

VII. Ruth Meets All Sorts and Conditions 100

VIII. Mrs. Tumble Bug and Others 118

IX. Little Mischief Makers 134

X. Some Queer Little People 148

XI. Wise Folks and Fiery Ones 159

XII. The Honey Makers 180

XIII. The Most Beautiful of All 197

XIV. Real Fairies 212

ILLUSTRATIONS

“‘I feel the wind,’ cried Ruth, with bright eyes. ‘Dear
voice, are you the Wind?’” _Frontispiece_

PAGE
“‘Sometimes it seems as if it must be Fairyland all
around, only I’m deaf’” 8

“Ruth, holding Belinda tightly, drew close to the edge
of the brook” 14

“‘How’s that?’ and with a splash a big green and brown
frog landed on the stone at her feet” 15

“‘I am a frog, of course, but my family name is Rana’” 16

“That nice fat toad in the garden” 18

“‘I didn’t move, but my tongue _did_’” 19

“‘I was soon swimming about with a lot of other tads,
slapping tails, and having all kinds of fun’” 23

“A loud splash and Mr. Rana’s long legs disappeared in
the brook” 24

“‘I’m right over here in the shade’” 25

“‘The mother spins the cocoon of silk from her own
body’” 38

“‘Why, it’s Daddy Long Legs’” 46

“‘I made one of these pits and in the funnel end I lay
in wait for ants’” 76

The wise grasshopper 88

“‘My friends, there are ants and ants’” 160

“‘Then there are ants who keep slaves’” 162

“‘Then there are ants who cut pieces from green leaves
and carry them as parasols’” 163

The house of the mound-builder ant 165

“Vespa Maculata” 170

The Queen Bee and her bodyguard of drones 187

“‘Smart children, aren’t they?’ asked some moths” 203

“‘I am the moon moth, the Luna’” 213

THE REAL FAIRY FOLK