Show DADDYS DADDY'S EVENING 1 FAIRYTALE Mary Graham Benner a v THE NEW YEAR Well said Bald the New a New Year Teat here her I 1 Iam am And here Im I'm going coins to stay for tor twelve whole months I 1 shant shan't cheat I wont won't be one to give rive short measure No Ill Til be here ben my full tull amount of time I just heard tome some one say that time was really running away fr from m her Time rIme wont won't do that Of course moves very Tery quickly along much mach much too quickly really but It wont won't ont run runaway away awny from any oneTIme one Time wont won't watt walt for any one either Time Is very strict But Dut Im I'm glad to have haTe a look around before I really begin a year rear I dont don't feel teel I have hau really begun until I have bave been here a bit No one will notice for a few days whether Im I'm being a successful or pleasant year or not Ill just take a look and Sl see e If It things are as the Old Year told lold me Id I'd find them The Old Year Tear told me Id I'd find the world ver very beautiful with lovely places In It and lots iota of people Some of at the people Id I'd find quite big and some Id I'd find quite small the theOld theOld theOld Old Year Tear told roe inc And I see fee that the Old Year Tear was right The Old Year told me that people would make fine resolutions the first day they saw me and me-and and even just before before be be- fore tore the Old Year Tear left they began making splendid resolutions nut But the Old Year Tear told me not to be disappointed If they were not all nil kept Then too the Old Year Tear said It would never do If It It were so 80 perfect a world that there would be nothing to tomake tomake tomake make a resolution about But Dut the Old Year Tear did tell me that some children at nt the time when he was new made one resolution and that they kept It It It was a beautiful resolution and It thrilled the Old Year Tear when he was young and new and when he was old lie He sold said tha that these children had resolved re re- resolved re- re solved and promised each other they would never be cruel They would never bu bully children younger than themselves by their actions actions actions ac ac- ac- ac or by the way they they spoke to them They Tiley wouldn't cull call little y er It Was a Beautiful Reao Resolution dren babies when they knew they wouldn't like to be called babies and when too they weren't verent babies any longer lODger They made up their minds they would not be cruel to any of their species they species they wouldn't say things thins to hurt others' others feelings For that the Old Year Tear said Bald Is being being beIng be be- ing cruel too They agreed never to be unkind to animals to make fun of another's clothes never never to make older people feel they were a nuisance and much too old anyway They promised promise each other they thel would keep this resolution And the theOld theOld theOld Old Year Tear as 88 Ive I've told you told 01 me that they did While I look around anlund me Im I'm hoping I that there will be others who will wll make that same resolution and that 1 I will have the joy too of seeing I It kept For the Old Year Tear said there was nothing so dreadful as cruelty Cruelty by word or deed he be said suld was Just too dreadful lAt l' l IAh Ah At do I hear bear that resolution belag beIng being be be- ing lag made by some some others now Yes Tes TesI I 1 do dol Thrilling I Dear Dar me I wont won't have to wish ish myself a Happy New Year Tear I know Ill I'll be a Happy N New w Year Tear And what do I hear now ups Grown making a resolution never never- to hurt the feelings of chil children children hll- hll dren never neTer to tell them how they have grown and all of the many s speeches children get so to tired of at hearIng hearing hear hear- ing lag and which hurt burt their feelings The Old Year Tear tola told me about these speeches too and he be was hoping some of the Ups Grown would make this New Years Year's resolution lon Oh now I start of oft great glee being a New Year Tear And Its It's fun to start star off with great glee particularly glee particularly when all about you people are saying Happy New Year Tear I Happy New Year Tear I Happy New Year Tear I |