A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 134, 27 August 1927, Page 27

A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

COMPETITION TIME

FRIENDSHIP IS a steady light shining in dark places “|S that you, Dawn Lady? I’m not playing telephones. I 1 asked the man who keeps the Joy Shop where you were SE d he said, ‘Go and look under that pile of letters.’ Ah! Here von are! Did you start at the bottom of the pile this time and Wk upwards? I do hope you haven’t lost your magic pencil.” “Did you ever see me losing anything, Little Thought? I keep my pencil on an invisible chain and my letter opener in a secret pocket. Do you think you could help me carry these answers to the Hollow Tree? Just a moment. Perhaps the Doorkeeper could lend us his little yellow and green wheelbarrow. Here he comes now with the competition results in the ne w silver jar. I do hope he doesn’t spill any.” “A lot of animal pictures have been coming to Happy Town lately. I felt just a little afraid of the lion and the big hipporhinoceros. Didn’t you, Dawn Lady?” “The animal you are thinking of is the hippopotamus, Little Thought—plural hippopotami,” said the Doorkeeper, setting the competition jar on the grass under the Happiness Tree, and carefully tipping out the results, one by one. ‘‘Essays, poems and drawings. I hope the Sunbeams will be pleased.” “By the way, Doorkeeper,” said the Little Thought, “please may we borrow the yellow ancl green wheelbarrow with the squeaky wheel?”