Show roi Dl DY ii G I. I I TALE if Pi l GMary Graham Bonnet Y U fIM THE FAIRIES FAIRIES' PICNIC I The fairIes had had the tho most marl marvelous mar mar- elous picnic ever given In Fairyland d l only a few days ago and you ou may maybe o be sure I am not going to waste much time before 4 starting to tell you all about f It The They had the best time they ever had In their I lives they said afterward and you ou know kno well weil how how much that t ru means ans for th they are rire In the habit of always en enjoyIng it themselves vel deal Honey From the n a great Flowers I In the first place place the picnic was n a very large on one I It as given In inthe the big pine woods and oh It was so deliCiously cOol there I 1 It really was so cool that the fairies would run and play gall s for alt ah they were worth so they could coul appreciate the cool br breeze eze better There were ever and ever so many guests at the picnic The humming birds birds' were Invited with the butterflies for he fairIes wanted all the beautiful creatures they could have The orioles were Vere there and the blue Jays ja s 's and the r robins also the little red lIzards for you know the fairies are very fond ot of the little lizards and they think they are very cunning Then the elves were asked and of course the brownies It was one of the prettiest picnics you cnn can Imagine for with so many lovely creatures playing and under the big dark pine trees with just gleams ot of Mr Sun peeping through to see the fun well It was one of the prettiest sights In the I world The faIries began their picnic by swinging pla playing tag and hide and go seek seel before they sat down to their supper so as to make them very verJ ver very hungry as you ou can understand that Is the way away to be at a pIcnic Every Even little creature was given just what was ns most most appealing f for l' l his cial appetite The fairIes gives l ves and brownies had moss ice cream which Is their In- In kind with evergreen patties The birds had little dishes of coolspring cool coolsprIng sprIng water to drink and of course little worms worms to eat They thought that was part of a und picnic for them It was The lizards were allowed all owed to crawl around and pick up anything an they chose The butterflies and humming birds were given honey houey from the flowers for the flowers were only too glad to help along Everybody dill did have such a good time because everybody was thought of and nobody was forgotten about ut But the most wonderful part of an all was when th the fairies all their guests 1 with n a special s dance which they the had for fot the occa- occa slon sion They dropped a astar star of sliver silver over oyer every guest white they danced around fn a grace grace- ful and lovely lo r fV manner And all the guests A Special Dance Danca picked ed up the little stars and applauded the fairies |