TIP TOE AND TWINKLE-OH

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 25

TIP TOE AND TWINKLE-OH

fairies were playing their pretty laity ! sumes, about th§ crescent moor to , the music of Tip-toe's silver ! Such a happy crowd they were urn! suddenly, at an exciting poiti: : < ** j game. Tip-toe threw his pip s into th* 1 air. and stretched out his hands to catch them, but missed! Down. do« jto the dark earth below fell the tin> glittering tilings, while the fairies gazed at one another in 4iisn*a> . 1 *'* w could not regain the pipes tor it w. against the laws of Sky-land !«•! ai sky fairy to fly down to the earth. A sad. dejected party, they made ti c: way to the palace, to tell the que* r On earth an eif wandered sadly j the side of a tiny, dreaming Like, o i dear,” he sighed, gazing longingly a i the stars twinkling overhead. !!«•' j long it is since I was banished from ; Sky-land. How I long to lock upon the faces of my friends Just then he glanced down, and > eyes fell upon a pair of pipes shining .uuong the reeds. He sprang for ! ward with a cry of joy. ‘They belosvj to Tip-toe!’* ’ He put them to his lips. and. ins i. • • lifted rapturously to the ; sk:es. pi .* ' • j and played, the music rising ami ianI ing in tones of sweetest harmony. ! Then ho wished and wished that i long banishment were ended. l’» » | haps because he w ished so earnest l' ; perhaps it was the work of some go**. fairy, but for whatever reason, ajhatt l of shimmering moonlight suddeni' 1 fell at his feet. Still clasping th* j pipes, he mounted it. up. up into tn«* He ran up the Milky n ay. i into Tip-toe. "Hurrah!* h mei “Here are your pipes. ; Tip-toe was overjoyed. *nd si.- , gested that they should »«» to * I queen and ask a pardon tor l winku I oh. At first her Majesty refused t | forgrive him. but when she heard that he hail found and brought hat k toe - pipes, she said: "Then you aft- pm ! donetl, for I do not know \yhut »• I shotild do without Tip-to -s fair. I pipes. But you must work. too. >on I know.” . , h . -Oji ves!” said TwmWle-oh. i eves shining with happiness. Aw:»> skipped the elf. examining ah lie stars until, after some time, lie found one larger than the others, but ver: dustv! Twinkle-oh picked up a get samer duster and a tin of polish, and rubbed and rubbed. That m*>ht. wj>» the mortals looked up at the said: “How beautiful is that star When the man in the moon the moonbeams about him to tell then. ! a story, it is often that of Tip-toe a i Twinkle-oh. ' . ... —Joan Brookfield i aged in.