A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 56, 28 May 1927, Page 25 (Supplement)

A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

CLING CLANG WHAT S all this?” asked the Doorkeeper, carefully placing his spectacles on his nose and peering over the shoulder of the man who keeps the Joy Shop. “Its a document, drawn up by the Little Thought, and all ready for despatch to the pixie postmen. I’m just punctuating it.” “Read it out,” said the Doorkeeper in the voice of one-who-means-wh a t-h e-says. “Very well,” answered the man who keeps the Joy Shop, altering a semi-colon to a comma. “Here comes the Dawn Lady. lam sure she would like to hear it too.” And in an important 'voice he began: “‘The Pixie Postmen, Red Letter Day Post Office, corner of Tiptoe and Expectancy Street. Sirs: Ye of the mail bag and willing hands, I must ask again to stand at attention. Important things are in the wind. The Sunbeams are demanding another competition. With one accord we ask your co-operation and trust that you will bring us a big response when we ring the competition bell. This is the first document of the kind I have ever made out and the man who keeps the Joy Shop is going to deliver it for me. Stand at ease! Dismiss! Yours faithfully, The Little Thought.’” “It’s quite good,” said the Doorkeeper. “Hurry off with it now. No, no, leave that exclamation mark. It looks like a soldier.” “Listen,” said the Dawn Lady.

And on the air there burst a chorus of merry notes, flooding Happy Town with music: “Cling Clang . . Competitions Sunbeams, Sunbeams .... Competitions .... These are what you all enjoy . . . Every girl and every boy . . .” “Precious little fellow,” said the Dawn Lady, “What would we do without our little Thought I wonder ?”