BLUE-MOON DAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 382, 16 June 1928, Page 29

BLUE-MOON DAY

Pamela was a little girl who was a: ways putting oft' doing: im porta n things. When Mummie said to her ‘•1 think that you ought to write t<» Auntie and thank her for that birthday present,” Pamela would say: • All right- I’ll do it first thing tomorrow.” And it was always the same. To-morrow Pamela was to mend her gloves, go in for that painting competition, weed her garden, tidy the dolls’ house, work harder at school and do lots of other thing> But, of course, when to-morrow came it was always to-day, so nothing ever seemed to get done. But one day something very odd happened. Pamela woke up one morning and at first she thought it was the middle of the night, because it was quite dark. But when she looked ai her watch it said eight o’clock, and from downstairs she heard Mummie calling: “Time to get up, Pam.” “This is very funny,” thought Pamela, and she thought it funnier still when she ran to the window and saw a big blue moon shining in the sky. “Mummie,” she called. “Everything does look funny. What day is it?” And Mummie answered: “Why, tomorrow, of course. It’s going to be a busy day fo.r you. I’m afraid, Pamela!” And it was! Pamela wrote letters and mended her clothes and tidied her toy upboard and did her lessons, and, every time she wanted to stop, she remem bered something else she had put oft till to-morrow. When bedtime came at last she ran upstairs without being told, and just threw herself into bed in case she’d think of something else she ought to have done. And when she woke up, how pleased she was to see the sun shining instead of a blue moon. ’Mummie,” she called, “what day is it?” What a relief it was to hear her mother answer: “It’s to-day, of course. Up you get, little lazybones!’ And, do you know, nowadays, Pamela always does everything as soon as she’s told! STRIPED Teacher (drawing a zebra on the blackboard): ■‘Now, what kind of an animal is this, Jimmy?” Jimmy: *A donkey in a football Jei - sey, teacher.” —Sent in by Blanche Brown. t'i-'iz'-'.'z-’iv'r.-i-:'.-'. 8. ~t ;-i