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Show Fairt T.&1 DOLLY'S DAY The day was Dolly's day. It was to be her day f'. tl e ment she awoke in the morning untU she went to bed nt night. Of course, it might be that other people, throughout the great hu-e world, might be considering it their day, too. They might be doing most fmportant things that day . Jer ap they were going to a circus, or ma be they were going to a party, or wbe they were going to act in a school play, or possibly they were going to win a prize. ,, Then, too, it might be. quite, qu re easilv, and in fact, absolutely surely, the birthday belonging to many, many other people in the world, too. No one could have one of the three hundred and sixty-five clays in the year all. all to himself or herself, but that didn't make any difference. Dolly didn't mind. She didn't mind how much other people claimed the j day for their own. I She was glad if there were other happy people in the world that day. But as far as she, herself, was concerned con-cerned and as far as her family were concerned, the day was wholly and completely and utterly and entirely Dolly's day. i Yes, it was her birthday, and many had been the whispered secrets about that day before it had arrived. Dolly had made a list of the presents pres-ents she would like to have given to her. It had not been s.ich a very large list. Dolly was not in the least greedy or grasping. But of course the members mem-bers of her family wanted it to be a fairly good-sized list. Then if thej couldn't find some of the things Dolly wanted, or if some of the presents ISSSOJ II --v5 SsN I Hp 9ml &'w si 'Wl A Rainbow. were impossible to get, there would be other presents from wdiich to choose. No one knew whether the sun would shine or not on Dolly's birthday. No one knew whether it would pom on Dolly's birthday. No one knew whether there might be a blizzard or a hail storm or a windstorm or a quiet, still day. No one knew whether perhaps It might rain and the sun might come out at the same time. Somo of them rather hoped that would happen, for then there would be a rainbow, and Dolly dearly loved a rainbow. But no one really cared what It would do that day. Tle weather could do just as it liked so far aa they were concerned, and of course that was just as well for the weather would do just what it liked anyway. That was a habit the weather had. Ana the weather was too old, much too old, to get out of a lifetime habit That was far too much to expect. On Dolly's day everyone would be so happy that it wouldn't matter In the least what the weather did. At last Dolly's day came. It was cloudy in the morning. Then some blue appeared in the sky quite a good deal of blue sky. And then It began to cloud up again. But no one minded. Everyone was -so excited wishing Dolly Many Har py Returns of the Day, fixing hei birthday table, writing birthday messages mes-sages on little pieces of paper, getting out the old candles for the cake, that it really didn't make a scrap of differ-' differ-' ence whether the blue stayed In the sky or let the clouds cover it all over The birthday presents were just what Dolly wanted. Hadn't she made her own list? And then, just uftcr the presents had been opened. It t-egan to showet very hard, and then It ucemed to look very bright. Dolly looked out at the weather The weather looked back at Dolly The weather seemed to be laughVns now. laughing gay, merry, muscni aughter as the bright light gleamed In the big, glistening raindrops. And then suddenly It camel Dolly cried out with delight too1 raI"b0W and on y birthday, For a rainbow touched the trees over the far hills beyond, spread across the sky snd reached over to the lake nenrby Dolly's house The rainbow fairies had come to wish Dolly Many Hnppy Keturns ot me Day. They .knew it was her day |