Daddy's Evening fairy Tale

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 233, 19 April 1928, Page 3

Daddy's Evening fairy Tale

By

Bonner

'GRANNIE TREE TOAD “Tell me the news,” said Grannie Tree Toad. “We were the news,” said Tcdd.\ Tree Toad. “What?” squealed Grannie Tree Toad. “Are you telling me the truth, my little grandson?” “I am,” said Teddy Tree Toad. “I am telling you the real truth.” “That’s a good grandson,” said Grannie Tree Toad. “Well, how were we the news?" “In this way,” said Teddy Tree Toad. “Which way?” asked Grannie Tree Toad, blinding her eyes. “In-the way of m.v explanation, not in any direction you can see with your eyes.” “But you’re telling me the truth? Grannie would be very angry it you weren’t.” “I am,” said Teddy. “1 am telling you what really happened, but you can’t see it with your eyes, for it isn’t around here—or they aren’t around here, I should say.” “I am very much confused,” said Grannie Tree Toad. “I will tell you and then yon won’t be,” said Teddy Tree Toad. “Tell me, my grandson, tell me at once.”

“In a newspaper they had pictures, lot? and lots of pictures. “In fact I’m told they often have pictures in papers—pictures of beautiful ladies, pictures of clever school

children, pictures of big ships, pictures of far-away places and places near at hand. “Well, they had pictures of us—of animals and queer, Interesting creatures,” “Is It a compliment to be queer?” asked Grannie Tree Toad. “I think so,” said Teddy, “so long as we are interesting, too. “Of course I am not quite certain if it is always a compliment to be thought queer, but it is always a compliment to be thought interesting. “I am quite sure of that. “So at least being queer and interesting would make half a compliment, and, maybe, as long as they’re together, hand In hand, so to speak, they may both be compliments. “At any rate,” continued Teddy, “they had pictures of a number of animals. “But we were there, too. “There was a picture of me eh owing how I could almost be mistaken for the leaves and the trees, and that I was very clever to know how to hide myself by wearing such a suit. “They had a picture of a spiny tenroe from Madagascar. “The children who saw It thought it looked like a great big burr from a chestnut tree until they read under the picture that it wasn’t. “They had a picture of a rat from the Sahara, showing his great, long skinny legs. “They had a picture of a marmoset monkey and an owl monkey with his great eyes looking out from the picture. “They had a picture of the ocelot cat, and of the great long-necked giraffe. “They had two pictures of the ugly old wart hog, showing his string-lilce tail in back and crooked tusks in front—a picture for each.

“They also showed the picture of the biggest bear in tlie zoo.” “But the greatest honor of all,” said Grannie Tree Toad, “was that they printed a picture of my fine grandson.” Wrong Right of Way Little Bobby loves to ride in the front seat when his father is driving. One day another motorist ran past the red light and bumped into them. hen he got home, Bobby told his mother about the affair. “It wasn’t daddy’s fault. The other man had the wrong right of way.” Truck With a Cough Little Danny rushed from the window where he had been watching a large truck effect a turn in the narrow street. “Oh, muvver,” lie cried, “go get some medicine for that poor truck! Him lias a turrible cough.” Kids Suffer, Too Foreigners ai-e suffering some in China, but think of the poor school kids who must remember how to spell "Yangtse.”