A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 110, 30 July 1927, Page 27

A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

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friendship is a steady light shining in dark places WHO taught you to dance, Little Thought?” asked the Doorkeeper, who was polishing the treasures in the Place-of-You-Never-C’an-Tell and setting them back in their places on the shelves. “The wind taught me,” answered the Little Thought, twirling merrily on his tiny pointed toes. “One day he called to me, ‘Come out and dance, Little Thought, and I shall whistle you a tune.’ It was a very pleasant tune. He had learnt it from the birds and listened to it by the shores of calm seas and in forests by hidden streams of running water. When he whistled it I aould not help dancing.” “It. must be splendid being as light as a wisp of thistledown,” said the Doorkeeper, taking a fox-lorn-looking joke down from the shelf and rubbing it so briskly that it began to sparkle with wit. “There are times when I feel like dancing, too, but I don’t hear the magic music that yoix do. Usually the wind just says to me: ‘Button up your jacket, Mr. Doorkeeper., I’m thinking of veering to the south.’ ” “But that is because you take life seriously. Why I heard a thrush this morning in the Happiness Tree and he was crying out, ‘Be merry. Be merry. Life is short. Life is short.’ ” “I heard him too, but he seemed to be saying: ‘Work-a-day. Work-a-dav. Get busy. Get busy.’ ” “He sings a different song every morning. Just you listen to him to-morrow. Most likely he will be saying: ‘Doorkeeper. Doorkeeper. Clink your keys. Clink your keys,’ and then you will be quite happy hgain. What is that in the new silver jar?” “It’s a competition that the Dawn Lady has just given into my charge. Look—this is it. It’s for Sunbeams who have not yet won a prize.” “What a splendid idea. And what is that in the little golden casket with the jewelled lid 1” “That is an unselfish thought. Fitzie Morris wishes her story prize to take the foi-m of some sunshine for Ward 23.” “You must take good care of your keys, Doorkeeper, for there are some beautiful treasiu-es in the Place-of-You-Never-