Read text and answer question no.2 and 3The Fairy Tulips
Once upon a time, there was a good old woman who lived in a title house. She had in her garders a bed of
beautiful striped tulips. One night she was woken by the sounds of sweet singing and of babies laughing. She
looked out of the window. The sounds seemed to come from the fulip bed, but she could see nothing. The next
moming, she walked among her flowers, but there were no signs of anyone having been there the night
before. On the following night she was again wakened by sweet singing and bables laughing. She rose and
stole softly through her garden. The moon was shining brightly on the tulip bed, and the flowers were swaying
to and from. The old woman looked closely and she saw, standing by each tulip, a little fairy mother who was
crooning and rocking the flower like a cradle, while in each tulip-cup lay a little fairy baby laughing and playing,
The good old woman stole quietly back to her house, and from that time on she never picked a tulip, nor did
she allow her neighbors to touch the flowers. The tulips grew daily brighter in color and larger in size, and they
gave out a delicious perfume like that of roses. They began, too, to bloom all the year round and every night
the little fairy mothers caressed their babies and rocked them to sleep in the flower cups. The day came when
the good old woman died, and the tulip-bed was tom up by folks who did not know about the fairies, and
parsley was planted there instead of the flowers. But the parsley withered, and so did all the other plants in the
garden and from that time nothing would grow there. But the good old woman's grave grew beautiful, for the
faires sang above it, and kept if green: while on the grave and all around it there sprang up tulips, daffodils
and violets, and other lovely flowers of spring
2. What is the story tell us about?
3. Why did the fairies sing above the old woman's grave? Because....​