MOLLY AND THE MERMAID

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 8

MOLLY AND THE MERMAID

• Molly had taken all the morning to build a. castle on tho sands. It was a very big on© with a deep pit dug all Ihe way around it. The tide was coming in when Molly heard nurse calling her. She was just turning to go when she spied something silvery floating in the water round her castle. "Oh, what a lovely fish!" she cried. "No, I am not a fish!" said a soft, silvery voice. "Only a little- mermaid!" The mermaid sat on the wall of the castle and looked up at Molly. Her hair fell round, her in silvery wave*, and was twined with ribbon seaweed. "You have made a beautiful castle," she said. "May I have it? I should love to Bifc inside it when tho seahorses come over tho topi" "Of course you can have it," said Molly. "I am afraid you will not be able to have it back," said tho mermaid. "The sea will have washed it. away, but if yoa come to this-place tomorrow you will find a present from mo instead." She put her hand into Molly's, who jumped to feel how cold it was. Just then nurse's calls grew louder. The waves came closer and tho castle disappeared beneath the water.' The next morning at low tide, when Molly went to the place where her ■■nd-castlc had been, it was not to be aeen, bnt in its place was a big mussel ■hell, open with a real pearl shining {■side. -♦♦AMERICAN BABY" (»),