THE MAGIC DOLL

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 16

THE MAGIC DOLL

ißuth was a little girl that lived with her father and mother in a quiet part of the country. Folks called her a dreamer, because instead of playing with children who lived in her neighbourhood, she would go into the garden and sit by the hour in the shade of some big tree and listen to the birds. The sound of the wind among the leaves seemed to her like the voices of unseen fairies. Sometimes she used to say that a lovely fairy really came and sat by her side and told her wonderful stories of Fairyland. As no one ever saw the fairy, her friends laughed at her for being silly. It happened on a bright Sunday morning that Ruth went into tffe wood that was near her home. She didn’t intend to go far. While she was playing around she saw a golden-winged bird in a maple bush. She followed it because she had never seen so pretty a bird before. Before she knew it she was in a dense forest. She could not find her way home. She was just about to cry, when there appeared a Fairy Queen with two golden-winged birds on each hand. She said, “What can Ido for you?” Ruth was so surprised that she could, not answer at first. Then the fairy gave her a golden doll. She said, “When you hold it lovingly in your arms you may wish for anything that is good and right.” Ruth thanked her, and wished that she was at home, and in a wink she found herself at home. Thus she proved there were such beings as fairies, with help of the golden doll which the Fairy Queen gave to her. ’wiiiuiiiiiimimimimiiiiiimmmiiiiiimiimimiiiiiiiiimiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii