Show I The Sandman Story FOR TONIGHT The Cricket and the Fairies One night down In a dell den the fairies were to have han a frolic but the night was so warm that even the fairies thought they would rather keep quiet than move about If It only we had someone to amuse us said one fa fairy I t we could sit on the tho nice cool leaves of ot the trees and bushes and swing wing in the moonlight but it will be ery very stupid without some sort of ot amusement It Ic is too late to ask the grasshopper per orchestra to play for us said another fairy and the goblins are such ups cut-ups that they might play tricks on us instead of ot dancing and tumbling Why liot not have a concert Get someone to sing for tor us I 1 mean said saida 10 a tiny pink and green fairy But who can we get 7 asked an an- other I 1 do not like the voice of Katydid Katydid Katy Katy- did and there is no one else the birds are are sound asleep and would bo be very cross if It we awal awakened ened them Just then a voice chirped chipped up close beside the fairies I 1 am sure I 1 can cang g get s-et t you some singers It Jt said And out from under a bush came I Madam Cricket and her children We Ve Weare Weare are nil all singers ers she said ald and It If you OU wish a larger chorus I 1 can find plenty of the Cricket family who will gladly c sing for tor you The fairies were delighted and ran ron to tell their queen that she might I come ome to the concert while Madam Cricket ricket went vent to get more of ot her mu- mu cical family And such lIuch a a. concert as they had Even Hven Mr Owl forgot to hoot as h he he- sat satIn satin satin in a. a tree treo overhanging the dell and as asfor astei fo for tei bothering those Crickets ets of ot CO course re he did not dare for there were tho the fairies with their melr little tittle gold wands who might change him Into anything they chose If It h he did not behave e All night the Crickets sang san santor for tor the tho fairies and when the first faint streak of light tight showed In the sky the queen who ho was charmed with the concert told the Crickets that she and her fairies must bo iso going going- home And no now what can we do for you asked the I Fairy alry Queen You have sung all night to entertain us and we I wish to show our gratitude Madam Cricket told the tho queen that h her hOr r fa family mil did not mind singing In inthe tho the least but If It she really wished to todo todo todo do something for tor her family there was something they would vor very much like And AntI what Is that 7 inquired the Fairy Queen Speak and it shall be granted We are arc the field Crickets said Madam Cricket and w we would like to have e our clothes a different color bolor from the other crickets We e think that a darker shade would bo ho nice nice nice-a. a little shiny too You Yot shall be dressed as you ou wish said Mid the queen her wand over the little Crickets tone Be clothes dark and like satin let them shine shiM And that is 18 the reason so the tho field crickets say uy that they are dressed dIfferently differently differently dif dIf- dif dif- from their cousins the tho house I crickets It beK began n the night that some of ot their family sang rang for tor th the tho fairies I |