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Show gP Daddy's tMvehiixg Fairy Tale jyMMW GRAHAM BOWER. THE AUTUMN PARTY. "We'll hnvo to hnvo a party," said Vcfvr Gnomo to tho other fairies. 4 ... "That wo will," J AtJgJjl agreed Bllllo plllSPs "Let's have It 7 JT nbflCxj)) soon," said Ben-tVv$-3pJi ulc Brownie. rVsZCy "Very soon," S? cfsSu snld I,e,cr 0ob" iSEgij "We'll have It vrtp! JBo?w ,n,s vcfy nftcr RAI p5 Gnome. "I'll go IT Tfc? for the pumpkins feJ" JpF" now. Wo must t have them for It mbZI must bo a rcgu- H3 lar autumn par- "8end Around the "Surely It must Invitations." bo that," agreed Peter Goblin. "Shall wo ask tho Breeze Brothers to take around tho invitations?" asked Bcnnto Brownie. "They're nlwnys tho best ones," snld Peter Goblin, "except on tho quiet days when they're too sleepy and lazy, poor dears 1" "It's windy enough today," said Bennle Brownie. So they sent around their Invitations Invita-tions that very morning by tho Breezo Brothers and In the afternoon nil tho creatures of Fairyland nnd Brownie-land Brownie-land and Gnomelnnd and Gobllnland and from nil thoso pnrts wero at tho autumn pnrty. After the guests had all arrived, In camo tho pumpkins, dressed up Uko Jack o' Lanterns, with llttlo candles burning nnd flickering. They wero brought In on nn enormous enor-mous liny wagon driven by Witty Witch, nnd the horses wero decorated with nil tho different autumn flowers which could bo found along tho rands. Then old Mr. Giant camo wearing a huge wrenth of Everlasting Flowers around his head. "I want to wear them to show you I meant I'd always be coming nround nnd I'd never desert my friends," he said. "Goodie I" they all shouted. "Well, hndn't I better bo coming nround?" usked Jack Frost "Of courso you must como before tho chestnuts aro ripe, nnd soon we're going to have chestnut parties." "Hurry up, Jack, and ask no mora questions," said Master Chilly. "You'd better wait awhile," snld old Mr. Giant "Walt until the evening eve-ning nnywny." "Oh. I will," whispered Jack Frost, and they all felt as though their checks had been nipped ever so slightly slight-ly by the cold. They built houses of leaves nnd they mnde groat bonfires which they danced about. Tho bonfires wero largor and more wonderful than ever they had seemed. Lots of the guests kept arriving all tho time. For you see the nutuuin leaves had been Invited, nnd they enme rushing In, running and dancing, nnd flying nnd scampering nnd rustling and falling from the trees. They camo In nil sorts of costumes. Somo woro red nnd some wore brown and somo orange nnd somo yellow, ffsCT' I somo woro Bcnrlet 3""If,0'"K and somo wore CJ fOp pink, and ns tho JllfcVV' leaves dropped the j rVw3Xf5s? Fairyland creatures Jw jt danced with glee Jai2wt rSv for such beautiful 3zfm- crt colors wero falling ySav, down on the houses jj i p) ' ( of leaves. JviJvj But after tho y JW houses of leaves vTsfJ tk had been made, nnd ) VM, Vf there wero paths j4Mpv Ju and walks and ttll'Bg&SMi yards and every- I VSSfcSflJ thing you could Glii-IsEiLtZSji . think of the Breezo D0n.t Know" Brothers came ' I B scampering In blowing everything this way nnd that. j "Wo wero asked t the party too," they said. "Of courso you were," said tho lute ' nutumn (lowers ns they blew nbout a llttlo In their places on the horses. ' "Of courso you were," everyone : shouted. . So as tho BrecTO Brothers blew their trumpets which they had for special parties and as they blow the leafy guests this way nnd thnt. ami k as old Mr. Wind whistled and the , flowers sang ever so softly, tho people . of fnlrylund danced nnd sang this song . "Many colors In leaves we see. ' Many colors In (lowers so free ( Oh what joy It Is Indeed, ' I To know we've all the colors we'll need I There are colors for everything And. ot tholr beauty let us alnjr "' |