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Show AARY GRAHAM BONNER. , CXlC" t- C't- I""'" FAIRIES AND SNOW Down below the Snow King saw the Fairv Queen and the little fairies playing in the ted i here and had a 'Why, Hello, Mr. ly Snow King." ' ...j y0 re member? So it's my birthday that Is if I come down the same way this year." "Oil, yes, we remember," said the Fairy Queen, "by all means we'll give you a party." "I shall be right down," said the Snow King delightedly. "Will you bring your children?" asked the Fairy Queen. ' "We would love to have them." "I can't come without them very well, so I'm glad you want them," said the Snow King. "Watch us come." Just then it began to snow ever and ever so hard. The Snow King was coming down to the earth for his birthday party. The little fairies laughed and danced as the snow fell. Of course with the Snow King came his children, chil-dren, the Snow Flakes. They fell tins way and that. They Jumped on the trees and they played about on the ground. Then they played a lovely game of covering en-"-h other up with snow. That is the favorite game of the Snow Flukes, and of course when they play It the snow grows deeper and deeper. For so much snow has to keep on falling. The more that falls, the more they need to fall in order to cover the last lot of Snow Flakes, and the Snow King Is about everywhere watching the fun. The Fairies played in the snow and they played a game with the Snow Flakes. For as the Snow Flakes would cover each other up, the Fairies would toss up the snow with their hands and with their wands, and the Snow Flakes would have to begin all over again trying to cover up the ones which bad already been covered cov-ered once. The grown-ups said : "What a snowstorm we are having! We will have to have our walks cleared off and the snow plow will have to come out. "It Is getting so deep no one can wall; !" That made the Snow King laugh for he doesn't consider he lias a real sir4wl fir, msm$ 5 j o I v -if- r.' woods. "Hello, Fairy Queen, hello little fairies," he said. "Why hello, Mr. Snow King," they called together as they saw him looking look-ing down at them. "Would you like to give a birthday party?" he asked. "Is it your birthday?" birth-day?" asked the Fairy Queen. "Yes," said Mr. Snow King, "just tli is very day last year I came down birthday party un-less un-less the snow comes down all day long. His parties last some t ime. you see. The Fairies had snow hull fighls, Ihey built forts, they built snowmen, snow-men, and the old Snow King was de lighted. '"Then you dr like me?" h ti asked. "We love you." said the Fairies. "You make fbo "You Make the n'"Ut,r s0 b0,1,m' Winter So ful'sald the Fairy Beautiful." Q"epn- "Then you do wi:;h me many happy returns of the day, eh?'' he said. "We certainly do," said the Fairies. "All, then we'll have a birthday party again perhaps I don't mine about years und ages. "But now we must be off," the Snow King said. So the snowstorm stopped and the flakes stopped falling. But t lie Fairies knew that they would come back again soon. |