Show The Sandman Story FOR TONIGHT BLUEBELL FAIRY One night when the moon was shinIng shining shining shin shin- ing In Bluebell Hollow the little fairy whose work It was every spring to wake the flowers was heard crying by two Goblins who had fallen asleep by bya a rock The Goblins Jumped up very quickly and looked about and there by a tall I green stem stood a little fairy airy dressed In blue cr crying as she hun hung the tho bluebells bluebells bluebells blue blue- bells on the stem The bluebells are the fairies fairies' bell beU that awake the spring flowers lowers but why the fairy should be crying erring the t o Goblins could not think Guess we better ask her said sald one I I like to bother the fairies but when they are In trouble I feel sorry So up they hopped and jumped on top of ot the rock What hat Is the matter Bluebell Fairy asked one Oh I shall never get all these bells hung hun on the tho stems before sunrise she cried and this time she put her little lItle hands to her face tace and sobbed t Of Ot course you ou wont won't Bluebell said said I Ithe the Goblin If It you stop work to cry but why did you not begin earlier you yon knew you OU had the work ork to do didn't your ou 1 I Bluebell picked up her basket and I began bogan to work 3 ann Hn Yes ram m blame blamo and I r know the queen will m scold me mo because I stopped to play iy by tn pool before I began bean to hang han tho the bells The night Was Vas BO so love love-I lovely and I f I wanted wante-n to see nee myself in the pool I have on at my new spring clothes clothe I Oh I 1 see said the Goblin Well lII j you are punished for being vain Ill ant antI I II I am sure flure YOU will never neer totter loiter again so my brother and I will help you for tor forwe forwe we do not like lIko to hear you cry Oh how good you are said the little fairy all aU smites smiles In a second I 1 will never neer believe again that you Goblins Goblins Gob Gob- lIn lins are bad fellows The Goblins were good helpers They hopped about JM so fast fut and nimbly that lon long before the sun was wan up the hollow was waa blue with bells and the wind swung them gently to and fro 1 sending out the tinkle of ot spring to the sleeping spring flowers But Dut the little Goblins never do anything any any- I thing for tor anyone anone without asking a 3 favor fa- fa faI fat I t vor Of or and as soon noon us as their work was I done don they told Bluebell lI Fairy they they 4 would like her help for tor they were the I water carriers carrie of ot Goblin Land If you ou could make mako us some pitchers I to tn carry arry water In you see foe we would not have to run back and forth so often with Ith a II nutshell to the pool they told I the ill f fairy i I But nut I T would have to make a flower said the fairy I 1 am the th flower Ver fairy and my wand will only make flow now ers era I Oh make malte all the flowers you like said on one on Goblin but make the leavea leavel v v v. v 3 Ml 14 you Ou can do O that And 1 so 0 Bluebell Fairy airy to show how bet her gratitude with her wand made for the Goblins the Pitcher Plant And If It you are ever where it is swampy you may maJ find flowers lowers touched with beautiful tints having queer looking leaves which hold water And the Goblins after that no longer loner carried water in ill a a. nutshell but used use the pitchers that Bluebell Fairy made for tor them because they helped her han ban the bluebells in Bluebell Hollow to awake the spring flowers Copyright C 1319 by the McClure Ne News Newspaper vs- vs paper Syndicate New York City |