Children's Column.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 7, 30 April 1920, Page 12

Children's Column.

HOW JIMMY OREW GOLG. A CHARMING COMPLETE STORY. FOR CHILDREN. "Oh dear!" said Jimmie to himself one corning. "I wish we wasn't so dreffly poor. Mummie says she doesn't think «©'ve got- enough money to pay the «nt." Jimmie did not know he had been speak8s»g aloud, but be must have been doing »v. because just then a funny old man with a sack on his back, who had been passing, said : "Well, would you like to grow some gold, then?" "Grow some gold?" said Jimmie. "I v;iah I could." "I have some magic sceds here," said Ihe old man. "If you plant them carefuily, and look after them properly, they v. ;H grow gold for you." "My word!" said Jimmie. "Fancy growing gold. Why, I shall he ever so lich !" The old man gave hira a little packet, and Jimmie dug up a piece of ground at the back of the cottage, hoed it, and raked it, and planted the seeds. Every day he worked on that patch of ground, pelling up the weeds, watering it when ihe drought came, and making it- the best and tidiest looking piece of ground in the village. Soon the plants began to grow, and oue day the old man came ulong and looked at them. "Is my crop of gold ready to be gathered ?" asked Jimmie. "Not yet," said the old man. "To grow gold needs palience and perseverance, and fuid work. Wait." So Jimmie waited and worked and when the plants did not need attention he tidied up the yard, and dug up the weeds of the rest of the garden, and when the old man came the next time he looked admirably at Jimmie's work. "The time has come now," he said, "for you to harvest your crop of gold. This is how to do it : "Dig up the plants you have grown. At the xoot of each plant you will find a long yellow root. T ake all.these roots to the market in the town. They will make several loads, which are the equal of the gola I promised you," Then Jimmie understood. He saw that by his diligence and perseverance he had grown a big crop of carrots, which would hring him in gold just as if the crop had bfen actually the motai. So he took the carrots to market, and mummie was ever so surprised and grateful when he brought back a nice lot- of money to put by for the rent. I 9