A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 32, 30 April 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

BAGS OF BOOTY I EFT, left, left, left, left, right, left, right, left! Halt! Byes right! Form fours!” “Upon my word,” said the man who keeps the Joy Shop. “Here come the pixie postmen again and the Little Thought has turned into a traffic policeman and sergeant-major. Dawn Lsdy, just look at this!” “I know,” said the Dawn Lady. “The Sunbeams have all been listening to the Competition Bell that the Little Thought began ringing last week. That’s the reason. The entries are just tumbling in.” “Ho, there! Wliat’s all this?” cried the doorkeeper of the Plaee-of-You-Never-Can-Tell. “As if you don’t know!” called the Little Thought. “Come along vagabones, and help me with these postmen. Attention! Present mail-bags ! Blow whisles ! Stand at ease ! Dis-miss !” “Let’s all help,” said the man who keeps the Joy Shop, when the blue-clad squad of postmen had gone in quest of more booty. “I shall sort opt the stories, the doorkeeper can deal with the drawings and the Little Thought can attend to the poetry. (He’s so clever at marshalling everything in lines), Then the Dawn Lady can be the judge and jury.” “Here's an odd bag of riddles,” said the Little Thought, “but its not marked ‘Competitions.’ This a good one: ‘When is the Dawn Lady like a ping-pong ball? When she looks round.’ ” “Ho!” said the man who keeps the Joy Shop. “I know one too: ‘What is the difference between a erying child and a poor tramp? One is down at heart and the other is down at heel.’ (I made it up the day I left school, but no one has ever laughed at it.)” “And I don’t wonder!” said the doorkeeper of the Place-of-You-Never-Can-Tell. “Tut! Tut!” said the Little Thought. “Order, gentlemen, order!” “I know a better riddle than either of those,” said the Dawn Lady, “but the answer is hidden somewhere in the mail bags. ‘Which Sunbeams are going to win the Competitions?’ TV.work ray faithful bodyguard!”

The Daven Lady