A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE
A MONEY SPIDER FRIENDSHIP is a steady light shining in dark places "WHAT are you doing, Doorkeeper?” asked the Little Thought Tf peering through the leaves outside the window of the Plaee-of-You-N ever-Can-Tell and brushing a silken cobweb off the pane. “Oh, I’m just seeing if I can lift the shining box and I find that I can And Im just wishing it would suddenly become so heavj that it would take ten Doorkeepers and twenty-five Pixie Postmen to move it. Wouldn’t it be splendid to find it so full that it wouldn t even rattle? Plenty of poor children could have a holiday then Come in, Little Thought. Ob. yes, I know I ha\en t cleaned the windows this morning*, but with all these sixpences in my charge I have been too busy polishing my keys t\hat< mat on your hand? Why, its a money spider. No, no, don t brush it oil. Its lucky. See how fast it runs. And now its looking at the pattern of your wings. It must have escaped irom the shining box, I think. I wonder if he will come over to my hand. . There you are now. He knows I’m the treasurer for Sixpence Time .. By the way, Little Thought, did you see the entries m the Painting Competition?” “Yes. Some of them are on the wall in the Joy Shop. Aren t Hiev good?
“ExeeHent So are the entries for the Christmas Competitions. Those Pixie Postmen are having a busy time.” “I know someone else who is having a busy time, Mister Doorkeepei. Ihe Dawn Lady is Just writing the messages for the Hollow Tree, and, if I don’t hurry back, she might be late with them. That reminds me. ... I really came to borrow your yellow and green wheelbarrow with the squeaky wheel.” But you ve used it so often that there’s hardly anv squeak left in it.”
“I know. . . . Oh, Doorkeeper, there’s a spider on you!” “Where? Where?”
Don’t be alarmed,” chuckled the Little Thought. “It’s just (hat same wee money spider running races with himself round the brim of your hat.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 224, 10 December 1927, Page 29 (Supplement)
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359A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 224, 10 December 1927, Page 29 (Supplement)
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