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Show ccm.cn i, vimw Mw-m voh ELVES' TRIP 'Thfr Klves," said Dnddy, "took long trip on tho buck of their specli bird Fly-High tl other day, unit cjhj must tell yc jRT what they saw. jjHBffl "They passi muny p I g e o i jffisfft houses, 8oinu i xfi3r t,,em w'"1 tw ff stories or t xjl - lloors und tin ftl Jtr t thought that i- I5 U,U8, cxc'"c Vttiil-t' for tho pigeons I iMnfiS' bave un. upstiili 4r---w and u downstali JajHBj Just . ns peopl Sry "They saw pit und ducks uu "So Fond of tseese, chicken: Deauty." bluck pig an brown pigs, choii late-colored pigs nnd Bpecl.lcd un Bpctted pigs. They saw geeso wit fnnny expressions on their fuces u though they were saying: "'Well, If you want to sec rei geese we'ro the ones, but there ar others who copy us pretty well, un ure as near real geese as creuturt could be.' "Then they heard that many of th cows und muny of the other animal had been out all or the winter been us It hrul been mild ulong those parts. "They saw many children plnyln different kinds or guinea. Thes wei some of the games they played. I ui wondering If you two know theml "Let's hear or tbcia." said Nick. "I'erhups we don't know them," sal Niincy. "And oven If wo do kiw them we'd tike to hear of other eld dieu who play them.' "Well, ono of the games Kfflo El nnd tho other Elves saw being pluye a good deal wus clock golf. "Any old kind of a goir stick did, an there was u lurgo circle mude of u the llgures of u clock from one t twelve. "These were made of pieces of woo and UMo said that In one phue bIi saw they had been cut out und mud from old cardboard 'boxes. "Well, there was a hole In tho ccr tcr of this plot tho clock wus set on on lawns or nnywhero of that sorl ICIlic said. "The Idea was to see how tc strokes one had lo take to get the 1ml ft cm each figure of the clock to th golf hole. "lvlllo fold that she saw many boy und girls huvlng lots of fun plnyln; clock golf as It was called. "The circle was about the she of i qmall sl.ed lawn. "Then she saw somo children phi.x Ing tether ball. There was a Idg pol from which 'hung an rld tennis bal Keeurely fastened to a string. "One person got on one side of tin pole with a tenuis ;-uc(uct nnd iiniilhe at the other side and each tried to Id the hall so us to make It wind up oi the pole. "The one who mnde It wind up llrs on his side won the game. "And another game Wile Elf sav being played was something ndlei bench tennis which she said could in played ulmost nnywhero. "Kite said you marked out a small sized tennis court, drawing the line; with n stick In the hard sand or j TT 1 In the earth. Then , vou played as though It were N leal tennis except " them was no nei iflss nnd you used your ft right hand with- jci . out holding the Vu P5! nuuui't. anil ill- J ways hud in j yK bounce the hull V Hi-si and then lib M It ucrosa to tho ' "TO other side. After Wile had Jj watched thu dil- J fereut giiuius be-liii' be-liii' p'ayed as had "Playing tho other Elves Tether Dall." they all vhdicd a zoo and saw the bouls playing wltl cukes of .Ice. Huucallug with Uengiit u they Jumped In und out of the le; wal or. "Altogether Edle and the Elves hai a very lino trip, for us Ellle suld: " 'it la fuu to get out and ee wliu others are doing once In a while, am we suw animals und people, or peopl I and animals, whichever way yuu run to put It.' "And they enjoyed their trip si piuch they usked mo to tell you when they had gone and to tell you tlm they think the world, with Its pec plo und games und uulnmhJ und trip! very flno 000." |