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The Fairy-Land of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
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We
might
find
hundreds
of
such
fairy
tales
in
the
domain
of
science,
but
these
three
will
serve
as
examples,
and
we
much
pass
on
to
make
the
acquaintance
of
the
science-fairies
themselves,
and
see
if
they
are
as
real
as
our
old
friends.
Tell
me,
why
do
you
love
fairy-land?
what
is
its
charm?
Is
it
not
that
things
happen
so
suddenly,
so
mysteriously,
and
without
man
having
anything
to
do
with
it?
In
fairy-land,
flowers
blow,
houses
spring
up
like
Aladdin's
palace
in
a
single
night,
and
people
are
carried
hundreds
of
miles
in
an
instant
by
the
touch
of
a
fairy
wand.
And
then
this
land
is
not
some
distant
country
to
which
we
can
never
hope
to
travel.
It
is
here
in
the
midst
of
us,
only
our
eyes
must
be
opened
or
we
cannot
see
it.
Ariel
and
Puck
did
not
live
in
some
unknown
region.
On
the
contrary,
Ariel's
song
is
"Where
the
bee
sucks,
there
suck
I;
In
a
cowslip's
bell
I
lie;
There
I
couch
when
owls
do
cry.
On
the
bat's
back
I
do
fly,
After
summer,
merrily."
The
peasant
falls
asleep
some
evening
in
a
wood
and
his
eyes
are
opened
by
a
fairy
wand,
so
that
he
sees
the
little
goblins
and
imps
dancing
around
him
on
the
green
sward,
sitting
on
mushrooms,
or
in
the
heads
of
the
flowers,
drinking
out
of
acorn-cups,
fighting
with
blades
of
grass,
and
riding
on
grasshoppers.
So,
too,
the
gallant
knight,
riding
to
save
some
poor
oppressed
maiden,
dashes
across
the
foaming
torrent;
and
just
in
the
middle,
as
he
is
being
swept
away,
his
eyes
are
opened,
and
he
sees
fairy
water-nymphs
soothing
his
terrified
horse
and
guiding
him
gently
to
the
opposite
shore.
They
are
close
at
hand,
these
sprites,
to
the
simple
peasant
or
the
gallant
knight,
or
to
anyone
who
has
the
gift
of
the
fairies
and
can
see
them.
but
the
man
who
scoffs
at
them,
and
does
not
believe
in
them
or
care
for
them,
he
never
sees
them.
Only
now
and
then
they
play
him
an
ugly
trick,
leading
him
into
some
treacherous
bog
and
leaving
him
to
get
out
as
he
may.
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