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Show K?4 Eveiii$ Fairy Tale 0yppm GRAHAM BONNER. r-r- rr vuium MVWIX.VN10N FAIRYLAND BALL. "We're going to have a ball," said Fairy Princess Joy, "and I nm getting It up. Will you all come to Fnirylnnd tomorrow evening nt eight o'clock? We're going to dress In fancy costumes and we'ro going to have a great deal of fun," bIio said. And thnt was tho Invitation fcho took around to everyone. Tho very next evening they all arrived ar-rived In plenty of time, nnd tliero wcro tho most remarkablo costumes you have ever seen. Tliero were gypsies nnd there wero knights nnd beautifully gowned ladies and thero wcro gnomes nnd brownies dressed llko nntmnU, and many of tho elves hnd dressed as birds. A number of the fnlrles wero missing, miss-ing, however, and everyone wondered Just when they would come nnd Just what thoy would wear. In n fow minutes after tho guests bad arrived, along carao old Mr. Giant Ho wore a huge costume which stuck out and mndo him look largor than ever. Ills sleeves wcro tho most enormous things you ever did see. "Well, old Mr. Giant," thoy all said, "you have n Joke In mind to tell us." "What makes you think so?" asked Mr. Giant. "Oh, you hnvo something In tho way of a surprlso or n Joki, for you've got an expression on your face which says qutto plainly that you've something up your sleeve." "Something up my sleeve, eh?" asked Mr. Giant. "Pray tell mo what that meuns." "Well," said Kllllo Brownie, "when creatures hnvo some secret they know or somo plnn on bnnd, or something they menu to spring, they sny, 'you'vo something up your alcove.' They mean that there is something hidden cither In the wny of n surprise, a Joke, a pnek of cards anything. "And so wo sny that you liavo something some-thing up your sleeve, for you look It. "Something Up My Sleeve." You look ns though you had somo-thing somo-thing hidden nWoy. You hnvo a secret se-cret for us, eh, Mr. Giant." "Woll, well, well, mnybe you'ro right," ho said. And ns he wild so the great enormous sleeves he wore began to shako and move, and suddenly they saw many of the little fairies running down old Mr. Giant's sleeves and coming out over his hands nnd Jumping about luughlng with delight. "I did hnvo something up my slecvo, hn, lin, that was truo enough," snld old Mr. (limit. Just then along enmo n fnlry carry-Ing carry-Ing nn enormous whistle nnd n cako of soap, n towl and a bnsln filled with wntcr. "What In the world nro you doing. Fnlry?" they all asked. "And won't your water freeze on Ibis cold day?'' "I'm seeing that this whlstlo lives up to tho reputntlon It has," said tho fairy. "They uso the expression 'as clean ns a whistle,' and I must seo thnt thts whlstlo Is no disgrace to tho family fam-ily nume, and so I'm constantly wash Ing my own fnco and bands, for I want to be ns clean as n whistle, und the whlstlo must be clean to keep up Its roputntlon." They all laughed loudly, nnd only stopped when they heard n sound coming com-ing from ono of tho branches of a flr tree. "Who's up thoro?" thoy called. "I am," shouted Fairy Princess Twilight Twi-light Boll, "I 0111 Un n tron liopnnan 1 don't know what to do. I was off on a twilight parly and didn't hnvo tlmo to mako my frock. So I don't know whether to como to tho fnncy dress party ns I am. or to stny nwny bocaime I hnten't n costume. So I'm up n treo, or In other words. I'm groiitly puzzled nhout what to do." "Como down, como down." thoy called, call-ed, nnd Fnlry Prlncos-i Twilight Boll enmo down laughing. "A gny little Joke I played on nil of you. 1 n twI out the old, old Joke of being purrii-d or up n tri'e Iln. I-r:," -.ho 1 hik'u 1 i her iniisUal Miicc |
