Show THE WINNING GNOMES Six brownies offered to take tale the tune Invitations to the gnomes to play marbles marbles marbles mar mar- bles and to the fairies to Judge the winners Innet's of or the tho game And these thes six brownies dressed up In to their best brown velvet suits with their brown velvet helmets on their heads They went ent In a different way than they h had Imd d ever gone before and the gnomes gnomes gnomes' and find fairies were were so excited at ats s them that for a long time Ume 1 they could not understand what they I were sa saying For you see the time brownies did not walk or 01 fly or crawl when they wont oft off with their Invitations Instead they rode In carriages ma made e of ot tiger lilies which were drawn by el eight ht green toads The Thet toads ads hopped along and drew the tho carriages and sometimes when the carriages upset the brownies did rl Y l d. d J Then the Game Began not mind In In the least but got right In again after they bad had cried Whoa to the toads And when they had told the gnomes and fairies why they had come all were very happy and said cald right away they would be delighted to go to the brownies' brownies game of marbles In the afternoon aft aft- And sure enough they all arrived just as the very moment they were asked And not to be bc outdone by their fine hosts the brownies the gnomes went to the game In a big automobile made of ot the roots of of old trees and lined with fresh green moss They really had to help malce their automobile go but go-but but It looked very gay and andl like the cool green woods and the they had a most Impressive horn They had asked Mr Crow to elton sit elt on one ne side of or their automobile and to uc Caw w Caw when anything got In Inthe Inthe inthe the way way und and very often when they Just wanted to be noticed Their automobile was very very ery large and with a number of gnomes pushing every few seconds and with Mr Crows Crow's horn the brownies and fairies thou thought ht It very funny The fairies flew to the game and when they arrived they were asked to sit In the Judges' Judges stand which was made of early spring violets and trailIng trailing trail trail- Ing ar au flowers Then the game began began and and all aU the brownies played against the gnomes with witt bright blue and green reen and yellow yellow yel yel- ellow el low and purple marbles Soon the gnomes gnomes had almost er c every marble on their side and the Fairy Queen called caned out The gnomes have won Here are the prizes i And she flung the prizes of baskets fill filled with tiny tins of maple syrup to all the gnomes TI Then en they ended the party with a afine afine fine supper |