Show y mm SEA SHELLS it was the roughest day atthe at the seashore sold sald daddy and all the wave wave ii fairies were having the very bes beat time the foam foal n b oats boats and the breaker breaker boats were carrying them over the huge breakers and how they laughed and sung sang in the wind us as they rocked and fell and rolled rolleda about tout along the beach were many different 7 kinds of eliell sl iella s fan shaped shells black shells white shells pink I 1 shells and shells of every kind of shape oh 1 sald said the wave fa fairies liles what joy a rough adough day ay like this Ss behave we have such tun fun such fun and the sand fairies as the ifie wave fairies dashed over over them ni whispered these secrets to them saying i its glorious on such a day we wa love all the creatures of the witter water wait of dear old mother ocean are it having av such h a fine time the breaker boats love a day like this the foam boats love it just ns as much and tile the 15 7 I 1 I 1 wave fairies were having the best time shells down in the bottom of the ocean ocean aro are sending up tip their secrets and old old stories to the waves L telling the waves the sand fairies whispered to the wave fairies of alf all the other storms they have known and indeed the shells had many stories to tell some told of great and terrible storms others told of milder storms and others told of quiet days dayi when the sun looked down into the water and add saw his own picture there and when he grinned with delight and pleasure to find such an excellent lake likeness of himself then there were the shells which hart had been dashed up on the beach back into the water again and back once more upon the beach some had J come from quite a distance others just a little way off 4 shells of all kinds from all around of all colors and sizes and how ho they loved to tell their stories to the waves or to the sand fairl fairies es as thy to took ok their theli i naps in the sand the st storm orin still kept up and iw two 0 children came down on the beach to play they had their mother with them all wore bathing suits its very very rough children said the tha mother 1 I am afraid it Is too rough for a swim today oh mother it looks so glorious gl orlus said the little boy whose naine name was dicky it looks so exciting mother beg ged the little girl whose name was nettle well just around the edge of the beach then said the other mother f but soon they all found that they really have a swim this day dak it was so rough that the great waves knocked them aillem down as soon as they would stand up arid and when they tried wa to swim the huge hude breakers went right over their heads sorry the breakers tried to say but its our day for a party we really cant stop to speak though it will gift make us all out novt of breath and 0 e o must keep our strength for this glor glorious lous ocean storm mother asked dicky why owhy we take home a great many shells there are ara some wonderful ones here and we could get the most mar valous collection that sounds kikela like a good idea said their mother but oh I 1 have a a better one now said dicky what la it naked nettle were near the beach where there are always shells for us ais to gather and andi I 1 was thinking ng perhaps we I 1 cou take shells to the children ln in the hospital up ja in the town could we e mother for both children lived in wn where there was a email hospital in hi which were a number of other children trying to get gat well wall as ai eoon boonas as ever they could so BO they could be out again vi a wonderful idea said bald their mother indeed you ma may y do bhatt that so dicky and dettlo gathered all shells i they could andrup and up they went to the hs pital with baskets pock pockets ets and aprons fiill fall of shells I 1 such su ch wonderful ones they had too shells of all 1111 sorts and when each of the hospi hospital children was given a little collection of shells they thol tholet ht what a message r from the stars was being whispered through the shells 1 l I 1 and etwas it was too ool I 1 for old mother ocean was still roaring vind and through the bhella ells she wits saying fo the children get well soon come and i and somehow the children elt fait the theys M would for happiness Js Is a mighty good P medicine 11 1 i |