THE CHILD AND THE WAVE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 27 (Supplement)

THE CHILD AND THE WAVE

I sat upon the sandy shore And watched the waves roll in; At last I asked the biggest one To tell me where he’d been; He looked at me and roared and roared And then he roared again, Then said, “I’m out of breath, for I Ran all the way from Spain.” “From Spain,” I said,

“Oh dear, oh dear. That’s miles and miles away! You must be good at running, Sir, To make it in a day.”

FANCY DRESS There was great excitement in Fairyland because the Fairy Queen was giving a fancy-dress dance. Everybody had been asked, and wherever you went you saw little groups of fairies talking away as hard as they could go, and they were always saying things like this:

“I thought I’d make myself a reddishpink frock and go as a blush rose. Don’t you think it would suit me?” Or, “I hear that Silver Bell is going as a dragon-fly—l hardly think she has the figure for it, •do you?”

And so they went on, and when they heard there was to be a prize for the best fancy dress they all talked more than ever.

All except Moongleam. She, poor little .fairy, didn’t think she’d be able to go at all, for she’d spent all her money and hadn’t even got a best frock she could do up. And of course she wanted to go dreadfully badly, especially when she heard that the first prize was to be a free fortnight’s holiday in Mortal Land. But wanting was no good when she had no money, and the more she thought about it the more miserable she felt, until at last she couldn’t help crying about it. Luckily a spider,

whose web she’d once helped to mend, came along and heard her, and asked what was the matter. Moongleam told her all about it. and the spider thought hard for a minute. Then she whispered something in Mongleam s ear which made Moongleam stop crying and dance about with joy. what do you think Moongleam went as? She went as a Dewdrop in a _ wonderful frock made for her by friend Spider. It was spun from gossamer, in the lovely pattern of a spider s web, and it had a tiny pointed bodice and a little short stickv-out skirt. All over it were sprinkled dewdrops which sparkled like a million diamonds.

She looked so lovely that of course ® he . sot the first prize, and I expect in at by now she’s enjoying- her fortnights holiday in Mortal Land. Keep your eyes open and perhaps one of these days you may see her. 1