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Show YESON DAN or there was lll,u '"',nvn ,,,f ilC read this story. 8,0 .n tell '"' lie luul Uils mime he run away one night lone "Samd cutlod hi... just Dan. 'Cba elves live deeper In the tanthegohllns. They take care it seedlings and the roots and. It ' .rtVnd to their work, In the spring the vegetables and tlowers ip,h. Wp of the ground. '! W gnomes all had done as t Dan did. run away to look for t Mni on the top of the earth, very ' .Cre would be nothing at all but n soU, for .even the grass roots Hi Saw the Goblins Dancing and Capering About. cut be eared for by the brown men t e are to have a carpet of green set fear. He goblins, too, have much to do litb all thla, for after the gnomes get tUoii Marted right below, the goblins Ureto see that Uiey get through the top of the ground safely. And that, t course, causes trouble sometimes taweeD these little magic , people. Bat 1 am getting away from the iturj of Yeson DaD that I started to tell. He was sent to the top of the puoDd one year to see if things were Ming as they should. The gnome's doorways are the dark 1Kb, smaller than those of the gob-lu gob-lu and hidden among the leaves, lometlmes they are quite out of sight, t the eyes of a mortal at least, belli be-lli the gnomes so seldom use them. Imou Dan had never been above pound before, and when this night k opened the rocky door he stood Stating for a minute at the sight that mi hii small bright eyes. GoWIds were dancing and capering tat and the moonlight made the t and bushes shine in their fresh ptn gowns. - . ioson Dun squatted on the ground under a bush and, holding n f0t lu eucli tiny hand, he watched the goblins gob-lins at their play. "It Is more tun ludng here than under Hie ground where we gnomes live," mused Yeson Dun. "1 wonder if they would let me Join them lu their sports If I stay above ground until tomorrow night. I wish I had a rod cap. .Nobody ever would notice thla dull looking brown suit I am wearing." Just then it occurred to him that he had been sent to look at the flowers and vegetables and the meadows. "It will take me a long time to do all that," thought Yeson Dan. "Now how can I go back tonight V "Besides, I want to find out where the goblins get their red caps, and I can't do everything In one night." "Come with me." whispered Frisky Breeze, who had lingered a minute beside Yeson Dan and heard the wish; "I know a lot of things that no one else knows." "Do you know where the goblins get their red caps'.'" inquired Yeson Dan. Frisky l!iee:'.e Muttered the leaves on the bushes and replied, "I can find out anything. Come along and let us frolic." Taking Yeson Dun by the hand Frisky scurried away, brushing the kips of the goblius' heads so that they almost lost their caps. "You said you could find out anything, any-thing, but it seems to me you don't know where to go," said Yeson Dan. "I am tired, and besides I must go to the garden and look about. I have to go back and report to the chief gnome." "Oh, dear, what shall I do," said Yeson. "I can see the daylight running run-ning along the sky, and I have not done my work and I can't get home." Yeson Dan curled himself up and went to sleep, but when he awoke he found Frisky Ereeze had gone. He was quite alone on the mountainside. It was growing dark and now he could not get back to his home. If he had minded his own affairs, instead of trying to find out something some-thing which did not concern him, he would not have been lost nor would he have neglected his work. "He shall be named Yeson Dan from now on," said one gnome, and all the others took up the cry, "Yeson Dan, Yeson Dan." In vain did he plead that Frisky Breeze had taken him from his work, but it .was no use. Yeson Dan must be his name: the Chief replied, because be-cause he had tried to find out where the goblins got their red hats, a secret which they did not wish known. And now have you guessed why he was named Yeson Dan? ( by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) |