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Show I i CCTIKiMt n vniwN MVWU VHKM '. - a CIRCUS DREAM "I hnvo n hole In my toe," said tho first slipper. "So have I," said the second slipper. slip-per. "Shows wo'ro well enough to be out" said the first slipper. "That is what It shows," said the second slipper. "Wo belong to. Sookie," said the first slipper. "Wo do," said the second slipper. "And she loves us even If we nro wearing out She has u better pair of flipper?, but she loves us best," tho first slipper said. "We're going to ho mended later Hi," tho second slipper added. "My tho wny," said the first slipper, 'I shouldn't havo said that the holes showed wo wero well enough to bo dut I should havo said that when Sooklo wears us the people say, " 'Well, Sookte, bo your tocS nro well enough to be out For the toes shov right through us." "That's what they do," said tho second sec-ond slipper. "Wo have shown tho toes were well, though Sooklo has been sick, hasn't hoJ" asked tho first slipper. "Yes," said the second slipper. "You know wo'ro by a hospital bed. riiat is why Sooklo loves us so, I believe, be-lieve, and why we aren't to bo mended until after Sookte leaves tho hospital. "For she says Bhe loves to hear that her toes are well enough to bo out when sho Is sitting in her chair, and she hopes she, herself, will bo well soon." Tlio slippers wero quiet then and after n time along came the Dreamland Dream-land IClng and sat upon tho end of Sookte's bed. "You couldn't come to me and so I came to you," sold the Dreamland King. "I know that all of you children have been dreaming ot the circus which has come to this big town now. "You aro wondering how you will be nble to got there because y0U know "So I Came." thnt you're not to leave tho hospital tor u little whllo yc,t, and you don't know whether you will miss tho circus or not. "Mut I've come .to tell you something. some-thing. The circus' Is coming to tho hospital, and this dream Is going to roinq true. "The clpwns ind tho .bountiful In-dies, In-dies, the hearers and the elephants vlll come. The old calliope will ploy. 'They .will all comq In, their cry be.sl costumes, too. 'And nil ot tho children will he moved near the wlmhmjt and on the platan of the courtyard where there will1 bo n circus for tho sick children. chil-dren. , "Alt, yes, Sookie, you are going to Me tho circus. For you have henid, perhaps, or perhaps uot, of thu little oy Jay Mlal? . "Ho u as, tlio tjiio who loved the cir. ciis so when he wns h boy thnt lie said If ever he became rich ho would see thai Just ns many hoys ami girls saw the r-ni an ho could possibly ar-.-nng have see It. "Well, he became n pnrt of the bust, ncss management of the circus. The Droumlnnd King doesn't know much about business management, but It Is uiotit Important. ''He pas the kind, of a heart which the Dreamland-King calls the Thought-ul Thought-ul Heart. "And he has asked the clowns and jfomo of tho other performers and the snlmnlS to give u circus for jou hos-pltul hos-pltul children who can't come to the circus yourselves, k "Beq tf t& dream Isn't going to come true!" Sooklo woke up, and everyono In : hospital ward wa talking. TH qlfcuJs gomlng'to tho hos-ftay-j they jcrlfid' mit to her when itey sow' -that she wns awake. "My dream will come true," said "Sooklo. |