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Show Fdirq Tale A -MAnY -GRAHAM- BONNER THE SUNSET PARTY These were the days now of parties. The fairies thought they could give ao ninny In tha lovely summer evenings and duys. They had an especially nice party Just the other night, or, perhaps I should say, at sunset. The party was given Just at sunset, as I have already said, but Its chief feature was that It was given entirely for the butterflies. The fairies, as you snow, love beautiful beau-tiful things and Iwnutliul creatures. So they art. the greulest admirers of Hie butterflies. They sent their luvltatlons In a very unusual way. - Midden In the honeysuckles were I Utile heart-shaped buds which suld: "The fulries invlie the butterflies to come to a sunset party Just at sunset sun-set tomorrow." The butterflies were pleased to receive re-ceive their Invitations. Of course, they all got them very promptly, for tha butterflies hurry to the honeysuckles The Fairies Clapped Their Hands. Just aa many people hurry to the post office to get mall. Ton sea, they were not disappointed, disappoint-ed, for an Invitation to a party of the fnlriea la a great honor. ... .. The butterflies talked about tha party all day long and bathed In the aun so their colors would look bright. They naturally wanted to look their best, for, after all, every child, every fairy, wants to look as well aa possible pos-sible for a party. Tha fairies also bathed In tha crystal crys-tal spring and basked in the sun. Just at sunset the butterflies flew to the mossy ground that had been arranged for tha party. . . They flew In .order. First came a group of yellow ones, which were supposed sup-posed lo look like the sun. Next came tha bright colored ones, which represented the different colors of the sunset ' ' . Then came the ones which looked like the early evening, the pale blue ones, and lastly came the black ones to look like dark night. ' The fairies clapped their hands when they saw the butterflies arriving, arriv-ing, for they thought It waa Just the loveliest Idea of the butterflies to come In order and to make such a beautiful butterfly picture of the different dif-ferent hours of the day. It was a compliment to the fairies who love the different hours of the day and had arranged a party because be-cause they wanted to show their appreciation ap-preciation of the hesuty of the evening eve-ning sunset |