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Show Daddies fof Fairj "tale DOLLY'S DAY The day was Dolly's day. It was to be her tiny from the moment mo-ment she awoke in the morning until she wont to bed at night. Of course, it might be that other reople, throughout the preat, huge world, might he considering it their day, too. They might be doing most important things that day. I'erhaps they were going to a circus, or maybe they were going to a party, or maybe Ihey were going to act in a school j play, or possibly they were going to win n prize. Then, too, it might be, quite, quite ' easily, and in fact, absolutely surely, the birthday belonging to many, many other people in the world, too. i No one could have one of the three hundred and sixty-five days in the ! year all. all to himself or herself. But i that didn't make any difference. I Dolly didn't mind. She didn't mind how much other people claimed the ; I day for their own. 1 j She was glad if there wore othei happy people In the world that day. ''Ut as far as she, herself, was con- j cerned and ns far as her family were j concerned, the day was wholly anj ; completely and utterly and entirely! Dolly's day. I Yes, It was her birthday, and many had been the whispered secrets about i that day before it had arrived. Dolly had made a list of the presents pres-ents she would like to have given tc i her. It had not been s ich a very large lit. Dolly was not In the least greedy or grasping. Hut of course the members mem-bers of her family wanted it to be a fairly good-sized list. Then if thej j couldn't tind some of the things Dolly wanted, or if some of the presents T, - A -, X ' r I A Rainbosv. ; were ii:iprsiMe to gi-t, there would be other presents from which to ci:o m j No one knew wLotln-r the sun would ' shine or not on Dolly's bir'iu'jy. No one knew whitlier it would pom ; on Dol!'s birthday. No one knew whether there might1 be n hll;-.;ard or n hail storm or a windslorm or a quiet, slid day. j No one knew whether perhaps it i might rain and the sun might ' come i out at the same time. I Son.f. of them rather hoped that j t would happen, for then there would he n rainbow, and Dolly dearly loved ' n raiubnw. j I'nt no one really cared what l! j would do that day. UVv weather I rouhl do Just as It liked so far as Ihey were cuacerned, and of courste that was Just us well for the nealhei I would do Just what It liked anyway. That was a habit the weather had. And Ihe wealhor was too old, much ton old, to get out of n lifetime habit That was far loo much to expect. (in Dolly's day everyone would be so happy that It wouldn't matter In the least what the weather did. At last Dolly's day came. It was cloudy In Ihe morning. Then souk1 blue appeared In the sky unite n good deal of blue sky. And then II berran lo cloud up again. 1'ul lio one minded. Kveryono waf ,:o cM'itod wishing Dolly Many Hap py Ilelurns of Ihe Day, Using hot biilhday table, writing hlrlhilay messages mes-sages on llllle pieces of paper, geltim' out the old randies for the cake, that II really didn't make a scrap of difference differ-ence whether Ihe blue slaved In the sky or h-t Ihe clouds cover it all over. The birthday presents were Just what Dolly wanted. Hadn't she inado her own list? And then. J 1 1 t ufler the present had been opened, it began lo shower very hard, anil then It M'cmed to look very bright. Dolly looked out at the weather. The weather looked bark at Do'ly. The weather seemed to be laughing now. laughing gay. merry, musical laughter as Ihe bright light gleamed In Ihe big, glistening raindrops. And then suddenly It rump! Dolly cried out with delight. "A rainbow, nnd ou my bli'fhday, Inn !" l-'or n rainbow touched the trees over tlii? far hills beyond, spread acre's the sky nod reached over to Ihe lnl;e ro-aihy Dolly's bouse. The raltdiow fairies had come to wKh Dully Many Happy lielurns o llie Day. They knew II was her day! |