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Show PP Daddy's Fairy Tale yAARY GRAHAM BONNER COrttO-T n tfl'.lltK f.!Wt i'hL-N THE STARS L'o you remember an evening not very long ago when every one said bow bright the stars seemed to be? Well, they were having a bonfire. Vou see, for several days beforehand before-hand they ask all the stars to he out on a certain night for they think It is a bonfire when every star is shining shin-ing as brightly as it possibly can. And the stars who arranged for this bonfire banquet, as they called it. sent around the shooting stars as their messengers to tell every little star ! just the evening it must shine so brightly. The shooting stars are such quick ! messengers that they can take around the invitations and directions more quickly than any other messengers any star can think of having. Then, of course, they understand all the stars have to say. At this banquet they had two very, very famous guests, and proud indeed They All Had Breakfast Together. they were that they could have two such tine personages at their banquet For usually, they said, one tine guest was enough of an honor. The first was the Moon King. Now, when the Old Man in the Moon wears his robes of silver-gray and around his head a golden crown, then he calls himself the Moon King. It is only when he is going to a splendid banquet that he does that, as usually he enjoys being the Old Man in the Moon much more. And the Moon King looked very bright and dazzling and handsome. He didn't grin as much as he usually usual-ly does, but looked very solemn and as he thought a king ought to look. Then the banquet began. They all sat at a long table along the Milky Way, and the fairies, with their golden gold-en wands and crowns, arrived just as the banquet was commencing. They came up in their chariots ol clouds, which were driven by foui bright stars. They looked so bright that rea. people could never have looked at them at all. After the banquet had lasted some time their other fine guest arrived but their first noted guest left beforehand, before-hand, for the two noted guests didn't get along so well together. Away hurried the Moon King, and In his place came Prince Red Sun. "Hurry, hurry up, hurry up '." shouted shout-ed the stars. "We're getting very sleepy, and must be off to bed." And they all had one fine glimpse of the famous Trinee Red Sun. Then they crept back to their beds in the clouds and the bonfires all went out. But the fairies in their golden costumes cos-tumes and the gorgeous l'rince Red Sun in his banquet costume thought they had better continue the banquet for a little longer. So they all had breakfast together and that was why the grown-ups down on the earfh said they had never before seen such a beautiful j sunrise. |