Show DADY DADDYS I EVENING FAQ FAIRY RY TALE 13 6 GMary Mary Graham Banner Benner r ft rt LOST STOCKING Oh dear oh dear oh deer dear said Maggie whatever will I do Ive I've lost I Imy my stocking and Im I'm getting dressed to go to tl the thc party Its one of my best t stockings too Dear me tae where can It be be Where could that sto stoking stocking go She looked and ond she silo looked locked and she looked She pulled out her bureau drawers she pulled out things from tram her shelves She looked honked under c elm Irs under the bed behind chairs behind the bed She looked everywhere and oDd she kept calling catling out to everyone In the house Please look for Cor my stocking Can anyone find my stocking Then she 1 began calling out Ill who give a penny to anyone finds my stocking Quito often Maggie did otter offer n a reward reward re re- reward ward like hike that for Cor she sho thought It made macle people look for tor her things a n lit lit- tie and she suo was apt opt to lose her things Not for tor long of course hut but she had put them somewhere else than she re re- For Instance If It she said to herself Now Ill I'll remember and aud put my piece of candy to ent eat after atter lunch on n the tho Instead of ot on the sideboard for far Ill I'll be going Into the living room rl right ht after dinned then she would be he sure to be he looking for tor It Iton Iton Iton on the sideboard and nd would be he say say- sayIng suyIng Ing lug nut Hut gut Im I'm sure It must be bo on the sideboard for I thought It would beso be beso beso so much better to have ha It In the tho room where I was finishing my dinner So Maggie offered a penny reward reword for tor the stocking J Every very one be began nn to hunt once more It H was true they did hunt bunt for tor her things more when she offered a re re- ward It was hard hord on Maggie's allowance to have hae to offer so m many rewards but She Looked Everywhere then she was always taking up every everyone's everyone's everyone's ones one's time In looking for things I But nut the stocking all by itself back bock backof backof of ot the where here Maggie hadn't looked where it had bad tall fallen en when Maggie Mug Meg gle gie had left them there when she had got up in lu the morning morning so so they'd be beall beall all ready for the party was quite sad and ond felt quite abused She found the other stocking which was right on the washstand and she didn't look for me me the stocking ob oh- Or maybe she didn't even know that she had picked the other stockIng stocking stock stock- Ing up from the tho washstand nut hut how can she say that Im I'm lost I didn't run away Im I'm right here I 1 cant can't go KO anywhere without a leg to take meI meI meI me I couldn't help tailing falling I 1 haven't been anywhere and ond I dont don't Intend to togo togo togo go anywhere Dear Deor me dear deur me I 1 wish I i could be found And then Maggie somehow remembered remembered remembered the stocking she sho had hod on In had bad been blen on the washstand and she remembered remembered re re- about It She looked back bock of ot the washstand for the other stocking and there It was How lIow glad slie site was And she didn't have to give ghe a reward either She Sho was Indeed fortunate and ond the stocking was so glad to go to the tho party and not to lie He limp and ond useless back of ot the tho washstand It H was so Sl true the stocking kept thinking how little It could do unless It was worn |