SUZANNE’S ADVENTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 33

SUZANNE’S ADVENTURE

Suzanne was a little Hrench gii: and she lived in Marseilles. One da' her mother had gone shopping and Suzanne felt very lonely, when all a” once she remembered the old tin trunk in the attic. Up she went and soot; was arrayed in all kinds of thing(a queer little maid she looked) and. taking an old red umbrella In her hand, she marched downstairs. Soon, however, she felt tired of dressing tip and. slipping out of the clothes, she took the umbrella, we.r into the garden and sat down in the sunshine. Soon it began to feel too hot. so she put the umbrella up. whei suddenly a gust of wind Mew it into the air, with Suzanne clinging to the handle. Away ana away the\ sailed, over hill and dale, right ove the sparkling sea, till suddenly the; began to drop, drop. drop. Bump! Suzanne picked her bruise.: self up. looked about her and saw hundreds and hundreds of tiny ugh men who stared rudely at her. “What are you doing here, young lady?” asked the leader. “Er—l don’t know,” stammered Suzanne. “Don’t know!” shrieked the little man. “Don’t know!” “X-n-no.” she answered. “Take her and that funny-lookin-x*ed thing of hers away.” the dwarf said, pointing to two men standing by. Suzanne was taken into a funn'smelly place and, after seeing her safely in, the two dwarfs disapj.eared Suzanne eat down and sobbed and sobbed and. on looking up, saw a funny little door in the side of the wall. She opened it and went through into th* dark passage beyond. Soon she saw an opening and rushed forward eagerly. Oh! the joy of free! She ran and ran and ran. until she couldn’t run any more, so site so down on a rock, when suddenly she heard a chuckle behind her arid, ©’ turning round, saw a wizened old man She gave a scream and awoke to find herself in her own garden, with her mother coming up the path. Running upstairs, she flung the umbrella lnt * the box and went downstairs to mee. her. —Kathleen Allington, aged 13.