Show DADDYS 9 EVENING YEIN z GM Mary Graham Banner Bennet annex as CHT er ar Y t EIl umar U r BILLIES BILLIE'S REPORT Billie Brownie had been off on another another an other visit and ant he lie came back to am and Fairyland to tell tel telli i the others of what wha he had seen C Nancy my littie little lit lit- d tie tle friend Nancy had her first bIrthday birthday birth bIrth- f. f day said Billie t Brownie as the others listened to his news She had a cake with silver sUver trimmings trim wings and she sat up at the table for the first bw time In her life and ate crumbs Her First Birth Birth- of ot the cake anc and day had a beautiful time I 1 heard too that she had had her first tooth when site she was less than five months old and that her brother Blanchard had been six months old ok before he had his first tooth and her brother John all of seven months months- yet her brother John was her er biggest brother and was very bright I also heard of a new kind of a pudding they have in that family They call It the Walt Wait and See pud pud- ding When John Jolla or Blanchard say the pudding to to-be to be Mummy Mummy Mum Mum- my their mother answers Wait Walt and See pudding Of course the wait and see pudding pudding pudding pud pud- ding may be any kind at all and often It Is a wonderful surprise such as Ice cream and then again Its It's a quite dull pudding So that Walt and See pudding may maybe maybe maybe be anything at allI allI all nIl I OIl saw a dear old dog too who was trying to pet and comfort a little girl who was crying but as she didn't stop crying the dog felt so sad that h he began began be be- gan to howl bowl toe until a up grown-up came along and talked to them both and they both stopped crying The dog was so sweet though tryIng tryIng try try- Ing tag to stop the little girls girl's tears and then feeling so sad at seeing her cry that he had to cry too And I saw some of the snow children children chil chil- dren playing and then going to sleep I under the softest warmest-looking warmest blanket of snow which was was' coming down thicker and thicker But nut I saw people going back to their fireplaces and saying as they were hurrying Indoors Oh how fine a roaring fire Ore will feel on a day like this And I saw diamonds glistening on the window panes with the cold They were so very beautiful I saw a train going to the roundhouse roundhouse roundhouse round round- house at night and turning around on ona ona ona a table of tracks It seemed to be enjoying Itself very much and to consider this part of Its life a very Jolly home game And I passed by a park In a city and the lights were werl all coming out and up above a moon half looked down at the white snow and the automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles dashing along and at the city lights and grinning to Itself as though to say Snow and the moon moon automobiles automobiles and electric lights funny somehow 1 l' l I But I saw that they were rushing I to get rid of ot the snow In the city city city- though the children children chil chil- dren were making the most of ot It while I It lasted particularly In the snow hanl banks s they plied piled up on either r side of each street And then I had to come back for tor forI torI I 1 had been off for quite a long visit All the fairies faille and b brownies row nl e I t thanked B n I 1111 I l I I e f Brownie for tellIng tell Ing them all he I had seen He Began to It was such fun tun funo Howl Too o have him come comeback back bICk and tell t tt m m all he had noticed no no- It would have been dreadful If ft he be had come home saying s sOh Oh I didn't see much That wouldn't have been any ny fun tun at all |