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Show The Sandman Story I FOR TONIGHT The Telltale Goblin Parti I The telltale Goblin was so bent on telling the Queen what he knew that he quite forgot his new silver cap until ho reached the dell where the airies were dancing; then, throwing away his old capons clapped the sil- I ver cap on his head so hard he cried j out with pain. j Kor a second he saw stars and the cold silver felt very different from his soft, warm, peaked cup, whkh he had tossed snide. The little fairies, seeing the Goblin hopping about In ths moonlight, called to the Queen: "Oh, look. -dear Queen; drive away the floblln; he acts quite mad and may mean mischief." The Queen, knowing thai Goblins were not friendly to her fairies, held up her wand and cast a lay of light straight into the Oohhn s eye. "Iave our dell." she said, "or something will happen to you thst you will not like." ' Oh, wait , malt and hear what I hsve to tell." called the Goblin. "I kimw a secret you must hear." "oh don't Imten to him. dear' jHuieii" iiwirt sTV'He imie f miles is wrong t tell secrets; go away, we i will nut listen." I Hut the Goblin would not go; he j wanted to win a red eoh, and he whs j Mire the Queen would give it to him for the secret he could tell. "If you will ive me a new red coat I I wilt teytu something about one of yone fwifien you wuiild like to know, said the Goblin. 'o,i. he f quite mad, you msy be sure." sai l the Queen. j "I am not mad. Listen and I will j tell you the secret and you will know j then I am very clever to have dlscov- j ered it." said the Goblin. j The telltale Goblin did not thfnk for I a minute the Queen of the Fairies! would refuae to pay to hear a secret. and when the Queen told him he was j a bad, mad fellow and to be off, he was quite surpnited. t j "You will -he sorry' he said as he) i hopped away, and then he thought he j j would tell it anyway, for what was the use of knowing a secret If you, did not surprise others by showing ' t how much you know? t ! Hack he ran. but the fairies and ' j their Queen put their fingers in their j jeers and ran sway, so they could not! I h-ar. The telltale Goblin, however, i j was bound to tell, and he ran until! j he was near enough to shout: "Hhe ; I has married a Kiver (rod and she left I her wand In the dell. They gave me ' this silver cap not to tell." j j When the Queen and the fairies; ' heard this they stopped and the Goblin f thought they wiahrd to hear more, so, ' he went to them and said he would i i h.Ui them hitiil for the wand if tfrev would come to the dell. The Queen put her f inhere on ber lips to warn the fair lea not to apeak, and bark they went to the dell, following fol-lowing the Oohlin. who waa hopping and J ii m pin a; along before them- "Here It la," he aaid. etoopln to pick up a little gold wand. J "Hold! cried the Queen. "Do not I touch It: I will pick it up, and now ! that you have told ua the pec ret you shall hare your reward." The (ioblln hopped with delight, for he waa aure the Queen would touch him with the wand, and he would have a new red coat at once. "You shall wear the ailver cap the rest tt your life." ahe aaid, and before be-fore the iotlin could jump awny the Queen tapped him on the head, and in place of the telltale Oohlin there atood a ailver thistle, all ft rick ley and ahlnlng among the leavea and bush a. "Your aiater haa left ua and we mtiHt fortret her." aald the Queen aa the falriea i followed ber home, "lt her.be forgotten by you all; her wand shall he aaved for a more worthy Bister" The little Fairy never regretted marrying her River flod. f.r she lived hnppily ever after, - and sometimes when they come up from the bottom to sit In the mionliKht. ahe will nay to the River id : "What do you suppose became of the fiohlln? I'er-hapa I'er-hapa hia conscience pricked him and be is aorry.' The little Fairy was right. The f tobltn waa sorry when It waa too late, and the stiver thtatle swayed In the breeze. It tried to tell the hreeae la was sorry for telling tales, hut even the breeze did not wih to listen to a prickly t hi tie, an there it bad to bloom unloved and alone the rest of ita life. H'opv right, 1 :.. bv thr M.lurw Xews-p.-.Hr Syndicate, New York City.) r 1 |