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Show ISP Daddy's fairy Tale jyW GRAHAM BOWER THE ECLIPSE "It's worth seeing. Yes, she should be awakened to see If as she'll have something to remember. It's a very unusual eclipse. These were the speeches Dolly heard as the whole family seemed to gather about her and try to wake her up. "Wake up, wake up." her father said. "Wake up, wake up," her mother said. "Wake up, wake up," they all said. And sleepy though she was she tried to open her -?yes as wide as she could to see what all the excitement was about. "It's the eclipse, dearie," her mother said. Well, she didn't know whether she was still asleep when she heard such a strange word. It surely was not a waking-time woril. "It's a very remarkable eclipse." her mother said, "and that is why we're getting you up in the middle of the night. You can go right back to sleep afterward. You can see it now." She was so sleepy she couldn't walk. Her mind seemed asleep too. She couldn't tell what she was thinking. think-ing. Everything was so confused. Her father carried her. "She's so sleepy she can hardly walk," he said. Her brother spoke to her. "Keep your eyes open for Jusf a litth; hlUe," he" said. "I've been allowed al-lowed to sit up and watch for lt" And then they all gathered around an open window and looked up at the dark sky. It was a very dark sky. It seemed to Dolly that It was a sleepy sky. It looked Just the way she felt. It looked as though it just couldn't ITT ' : M 7 I 1 Lgfr i "W.-ke Up, Wake Up,- They All Said. ; wake up. That was why. she thought. It looked so blurred anil funny. "I-n't It great V" her brother said. "You see." he ivplained. "something very wond'-rf d is happening right now. "'t'lie earili is passing between the union and the sun and the moon is being be-ing e. 'iip-ei', that mentis partly hidden." hid-den." Dolly looked, lib. how hard It was to keep her e.cs open, but she blinked as bard tt she could and peered out at the funny sky. She though; of ihe earth passing between be-tween the n n and the sun. and then she began to think that she must be passing .Tiong this way too since she was on tin earth and It was the earth which as doing this. Yet flow could she be putting a shadow over the moon when she was way down here In a house by an open winil-AvV And ;be house wasn't moving. mov-ing. It was very rmif using. i .ie was glad all Ihe family understood under-stood it. Ken ti e word eclipse was too much for bet It was simply an Impossible word. She was taken back to bed at least she knew' that must have happened as she woke up in the bed in the morning morn-ing though she hadn't remembered being actually taken back to bed. put the next day and the day after that and for some time to come she would say to ever one. "I saw the Vlipse- the other night." and they would look astonished for that wonderful thing had happened after midnight. liven If It was something too confusing con-fusing t.i be understood It was nice to boast about. Hut It w as a liy It had to linppen I at such a sleepy time. It made it moie confusing than ever that w ay. |
