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Show Bonner UiSv pai rr ' rKsnrr x9msf un DREAM KING'S MESSAGE The Breeze brothers wanted to send messages to their different friends and to greet them all for the Christmas season. "We have so many messages to give for others of our friends, too," they said. So It was all arranged that the Breeze brothers should send their breezy, gay, happy messages to all their friends and also to carry the messages of others. They had a meeting about It Id the first place. First of all cair.e the Dreamland King. And along with him came the old North Wind, the Fairy Wondrous Secrets, the Tick-Tock twins who live in the clock, Peter Gnome, Biliie Brownie, King Snow, Prince Sleet, the Icicle girls and the Queen of the Fairies, and every one of them had a message. This was what the Dreamland King said. lie wasn't In the least nervous when he got up to speak. You see, he's such a dreamy sort of a creature that lie isn't bothered by stiff long legs and hands and arms and parts that bother others when they get up to speak. "Hello," the Dreamland King said, "I'm thinking of all the boys and girls all over the country wlio're in Christmas Christ-mas plays or who're going to recite or Bundles of Beautiful Secrets. sing carols at Christmas time. How lovely their voices will sound In the churches, or in the Sunday school or In the plays. But some of them will be nervous. Each one who is nervous thinks her or his legs and arms are longer than any of the others' legs : and arms are. "But that isn't true. In the first ' place no one has ever gone around the country measuring the legs of boys and girls. And besides, when legs begin be-gin to shake with nervousness It doesn't matter whether they're short or long. If they're long their owners think more of them will be noticed shaking, but If they're short their owners feel they'll sink to the floor all the sooner. So there you are. "Now I've come quite a distance," the Dreamland King continued. "I've left my most comfortable bed with its soft pink and gray cloud mattress which Is situated, as maybe you know, on the top of Sleepy Cloud mountain. And I want to tell all the boys and girls who are nervous that no one will notice their long legs or arms or knees. They can shake and shake and shake and not a soul will see them shaking. "They won't hear the shaking certainly, cer-tainly, unless' the knees go click -click-click, and in the worst cases of nervousness nerv-ousness I've ever seen I never could hear the knees shaking. "Now I must tell you the story of the first time I acted as Dreamland King after the royal Dreamland crown was offered to me. "Years and years and years and years and years and years and years I ago my grandfather. Old Sleepy Eyes, came to me and said: "'You know, grandson, I'm not as popular as I used to be. Nor Is my old friend and crony, the Sandman. We still go about a bit, but why don't you hecome a regular king and take around beautiful dreams to boys and girls? So many grown-ups have said: " ' "The Sandman is around." or, "Old Sleepy Eyes is around," and they have said it in such a way that it wasn't exactly a compliment and It made the children feel hurt, so If yon started off afresh with bundles and bundles of beautiful dreams, dreams of castles and turrets and towers, dreanu of brave adventures and narrow escapes from ditnger, or of thrilling rescues, of happenings In Fairyland,, and Elf-land Elf-land and Guomeland and F.rownleland, you would lie welcomed.' " 'Well.' I said to my grandfather, 'where will I find all these dreams?' i " 'The Fairy Wondrous Secrets will give them to you. She and her fairy workers do up bundles of beautiful secrets all the time. And you can scatter scat-ter them In bedrooms every evening and you can lead a very exciting, thrilling thrill-ing life. Down in that part of Fairyland Fairy-land where lives the Fairy Wondrous Secrets there Is a mountain of beautiful beauti-ful dreams and secrets, and this mountain moun-tain is a fairy mountain. " 'But.' I continued, 'how do I jjnow I can be king? How do I know they will want a king? And how do I know I will make a nice king?' "At any rate I became king and now I want to send to every little sleeping child tcniL'lit I he Dreamland King's choprest ,-islio f ir a very, very merry mer-ry Chrctp:!s. ami a very, very happy N""v V-'"i- " |