HOW NEW YEAR WAS AWAKENED

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1932, Page 16

HOW NEW YEAR WAS AWAKENED

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«"T N a certain room in the Palaco of Forever, the JS Tew Tear lay sleep- - Jl i«g; a"d though that in itself was quite an oidinary thing, in this case : it was really terrible, for lie simply \vould not -wake up! " ; ' "This tomes of his being out all night with the Man in the Moon, ; gathering Star Dust," said Mother Tune bitteily. "It's quite natural lie * should bo tired-this"morning. And I can't help feeling rather worried," I she added, "for New Year is commencing his leign on the earth at twclvp , o'clock to-night, and I don't know what we shall do if he doesn't awaken t before then." , "Oh, I shouldn't b,e anxious," said a coitain gentleman, who held -"-the position of Keeper of the Palace. "Theie aie always methods to awaken people, and I myself have several very good iilca.s." "Have you! Thank goodness!" Mother Tune felt veiy lcheved indeed. "Please tell me your ideas, Keeper of the Palaco." "Well, first of all," b aid that gentleman thoughtfully, "I think it would be as well to telephone for the fishmonger person, and ask him to come ;>to> the ( palace immediately, bringing with him six largo crabs." ll 'So-Mother Time went to the fairy 'phone, and she took up the re--ji-ceiver and said: "Hallo." ? "Hallo!" said the fishmonger peison at the other end. - "That's tho fishmongei peison, isn't if?" said Mother Time. "Well, "'would you please come to the palace at once and bring six»large ciabs ■with you. What's that? . . . You will? Thank you. Good-bye." ;• Mother Time hung up the receiver and returned to her sleeping son. ; "The fishmonger peison's coming," she announced' to the Keeper of th-> Palace, "but I'm sure I don't know how he is going to help*, us. And why do you want him to bring' six crabs?" "Well/ said the Keeper of tho Palace, "I .intend to put those crabs into bed with New Year, and as they will most certainly1 bite him, I think you will find that he Will awaken speedily" "Urn," grunted Mother Time. "Well, I must say 'that it sounds a very good idea. And'at any rate wo shall soon sco ■ if-it is really good. Hero is !the fishmonger person, himself." , ; "How-do-you-do?" she continued to that gentleman. "Have you brought the crabs?" "Yes, madam," the fishmonger person answered. "Hero they are." Mother Time very gingerly took the bag ho proffered, and peeped Inside. "They look nice, fat crabs," she said at length. "Do they bite, Mr. Fishmonger?" "Oh, yes," he answered. ' ".Well, then," said Mother Time, "I vrant you to take them out of the lag and put them in bed with my son. You are1 used to them, you see, and they will not bite you." As' Mother Time had said, tho fishmonger person was used to crabs, so it only took him a moment, to open, the bag aud put each struggling •_ creature into bed with New Year. Then the Keeper of the Palace, Mother """Time, and the fishmonger person gathered lound to watch New Year ajyaken. But, would yon believe it, although those crabs bit and bit, New Year did not even stir. Poor Mother Time! She almost cried with vexation. ~ , "P a.ten. TOUr crabs again," she said at last to the fishmonger person. Jj "And you— '—" she added, turning to the Keeper of'the Palace. "Have you jj any more ideas?" J. . "Oh, yes," said that gentleman eagerly. "I have thought of some- ,; thing that I'm sure will wake your son. First of all, when did he last '5 have something to eat?" ' £ "To eat?" echoed Mother Time. "I'm sure I don't know. I supk pose it was yesterday." "Well, then," proceeded the Keeper,of- the Palace, "he should be £ hungry by now, shouldn't he? This is what I'want you to do. Would £ you please go to the f 'c6olc'ana ask him to make a steak-and-kidney pio £and a sago pudding as fast as he can?" ; So Mother Time made her way to'the cook, and she asked him to mako ■f a steak-aad-Jadney pie and a sago pudding as fast as he could. "I'll j -wait while you do it," she said. $ A little while later the cook person had finished, and the things - i.c had baked really did smell nice. Mother Time took them from him $ and after placing them on a silver tray, carried them to the Keeper of *- the Palace. , :: „. "Unl>". that gentleman said. "Don't they smell nice? I am sure -• this idea will succeed." " ( : a 1 hen h? di d. a very Peculiar thing;'iudeed. He carried the steak- :• and-kidney pie right over'to New Year's bed, and said— ■; "Wake up, New Year, _; Wake up, my dear, Here's something' ■ ' * Goodrto eat." 5 And—New Year awakened! 'j' #r m Hi 6 Sa* U5 +? be£ and TU£ bed Ms eyes uniil a" the slee P ha<i gone ;, Irom them, and then he. saw the pie. ' ' -- ■ "Yum," he said, smacking his-lips. "I AM hungiy! 'And I lo\e «ago pudding and steak-and-kidney pie!" , - /- .-. .And then, would you believe it, he sat up in bed and ate everything w placed before him! Then when he had finished he said: "Well, I feel much s * better now. And isn't it to-night I go to the earth?" :=: late." ' S3id M°ther TimC ' "bUt " y°U- dDn>t hnily> y°.n wiU b ~e to<> '^mr'JSJXJS^'SiS.s 1: Year- "You sce 'J *»*to ** I of-th^at a^^s^za fisr^4 2? ± $ a quarter of an hour*, stepped into it. •.* waning ror quite * , ' "Go? d" bye'JMot!iei!.dear>" he'criea- "Good-bye,' Keeper" of the- Paldrp 3"* *»J* fo* *?*»»*, »c up. Oh' and beforo * forget/ Imustell } KarorL "LAUGHING JACKASS" (15). ,