A Little World for Little People

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1040, 2 August 1930, Page 29

A Little World for Little People

FRIENDSHIP IS A STEADY LIGHT SHINING IN .DARK PLACES A SILVER MOUNTAIN WELL, lioie is a whole morning’s work,” said Doctor Spring Sunshine, pausing at the Wishing Well and surveying the rows and rows ot' daffodils that were breaking into bloom. “I hai e promised the Dawn Lady that every one oi 1 these flowers will be showing its golden heart before the end of the day. dust look at this one with its crinkled frock and that one over there with head on one side. Half of them are still asleep, Little Tho’ t, but just you wateli me rouse them. See, when I clap hands they all stand at attention. Yes, as T remarked before, there is a whole morning’s work for me here.”

Anti et er since you came back to Happy Town you have been hurrying from place to place curing Sunbeams’ colds. 'Don’t we give you a busy time, Doctor Spring'Sunshine?” But that is ivhat lam here tor, Little Thought. And now, to make the time pass pleasantly, supposing you tell me one of those famous stories of yours. Xam sure you have one up your sleeve.” “Of course I have, ’ said the Little Thought, beaming with pleasure. “I have one called ‘The Silver Mountain’ that I have just finished. It is a mystery story, and lam sure you will like it. It begins like thi.sl: ‘The king of the pixies lived under a fern in a beautiful wood not very far from a river, and every morning ho used to lie in bed and watch the sunbeams dancing on the water. But one day' when he opened his eyes he found that a silver mountain completely obstructed his view, and the sunbeams danced on that instead. It was a very queer mountain, shaped something like a cone, but flattened at the top and pitted with indentations at regular intervals. The pixies, you know, go to bed at sunset, but some of them declared that in the early evening they had felt the earth tremble and bad heard a sound tike thunder. Well, their king ordered the removal of the silver mountain, and all day long liis subjects worked, climbing ladders and knotting Stout cords about the obstruction. Then they pulled. The silver mountain rolled over, and it was hollow iaside! At the far end daylight peeped through several small holes. Then the pixies pushed and pushed and rolled it with _A mighty splash into the river so thait their king could still lie in bed in the mornings and watch the sunbeams dancing on 'the water.. . . And in a house not far away a little girl was searching everywhere for her mother’s silver thimble. She <Jid not remember dropping it when she had been running home along the river bank the previous evening, but, after all, it did not matter much because it was quite an old one’:” “That is certainly a mystery story, Little Thought, n laughed Doctor .Spring Sun- v/1 HQ I _T a/Li shine. “And just look at this ,v\l> KJ daffodil. It has been listening ( ——' *