THE FAIRY RING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 120, 22 May 1937, Page 20

THE FAIRY RING

PIXIE PEOPLE: Not all the showers of this wintry week liave kept visitors from the Ring, although I am sure you all agree with the thought in the small verse beneath "Lonesome s" fireside sketch. Grey skies have made "Letterbox Elf".most grumblesome, and, do,you knoiv, I have discovered a cure for "grumblesomcness" in most people, ll is Mushroom Pie. " "Letterbox Elf s'' grumbles disappeared like magic, lie says he is going to join lhe very next mushrooming parly, so, one morning very early, if you arc over the hills and far away, dressed in stout shoes and a cosy coat, and you happen to see a grcen-jerkined elf showing the ivay to the whitest and widest mushrooms, you will know il is he. Next-Saturday will be the Tenth Birthday of the Ring. Only three days lefl for posting stories and drawings, so make haste, my elves! Scrapbooks and toys for the Gift Cupboards are arriving everyday.^ "Lassie" came one day Ytf the height of a storm with four of her extra-special scrapbooks, so you see fhe proverb about. and ill wind is perfectly true. "Miss Lujcury" sent a book of 'her own water-colour pictures " and printed poems. It's very exciting to open brown paper parcels and to find such lovely things inside them. , Please remember that Monday is the very last day for posting. Gift Cupboard parcels! - , - My love to you all. , FAIRIEL.

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Day sleepeth in the bosom of the west, Night crccpcth ori; the purple veil of rest Hangs o'er the world, and bells of evening chime, And mankind bows its head in silent prayer. And now the twilight slender, ylvcr, fleet, Glides into dusk, fragrant with scent of rain. Then cometh night, and following in her train The milky stars; the moon shines through the trees. Along the path of mist across the fields, > The world enwrapped in golden slumber sleeps! , — Written by Margaret Vandenbergh (15).