Show ake 1 oro NEW SLIPPERS ELLY had received a beautiful M MELLY pair of blue slippers upon her birthday her mother bad made them for her and they had been a great surprise its as she had a pair which were still pretty good and she expect another pair just yet it was true that she hoped before another year she would have another pair of slippers but she expected them so soon it was so nice too to have a beautiful new pair before the others had quite worn out now it if she went anywhere to spend the night with one of her school friends or if one of her school friends came and spent tho the night with her or if she felt she just wanted to dress A V oh how soft they were oh how warm they were up she had a beautiful pair of slippers pera in readiness the slippers were bedroom slippers and they were knitted ones they wore were magnificent magn lucent they had bad fluffy knitted borders and beautiful blue bows with a little shining button in each bow they had bad soft soles and lovely white fleecy linings they were warm without being heavy and oh they always were so beautifully made some people made things and they fit and you had to pretend to like them but with mothers things it was different she made them so you were proud and not ashamed to wear them it if no one noticed your feet and you were wearing a pair of mothers slippers you at once drew attention to your feet I 1 I 1 well several months had bad gone by and melly had only worn her slippers once she had bad put them away on the shelt shelf with a big white handkerchief around them so they would keep clean until she began to really wear them quite often that was the way her mother did she kept the slippers in a big white handkerchief while they were waiting for the time when they would be given and her mother bad a way of hiding biding the slippers and of making them when no one saw her at IC so that they had always come as a s surprise ur prise no one had ever expected their slippers just the time they had been given them and yet mother made slippers tor for all of the family once they had discovered how bow nice they were they never wanted any others yes fes melly had been saving her slippers for very special days to come maybe she would save them until she took a little trip to visit a cousin to in another month one evening it was very cold and somehow the house bouse was not very warm melly went upstairs oh dear her teet feet were so cold and she felt she sleep very well with such cold feet then she thought of her beautiful warm slippers she took them down from froin the shelf and took off the white handkerchief and then she put them on first she put one on her right toot foot and then the other on her left toot foot oh how bow soft they were oh ob how warm they they were just right warm and soft and comfortable and comforting dellys feet were quite comfortable in a very short time she was not cold any longer ill begin to wear them now melly said for my cold feet would like to ta receive the attention as much as others who might see me and of course they were warm I 1 oh melly dearly loved her new slippers 1 they were very superior slippers but they any of the cold distant uncomfortable manners of some soma superior creatures and things they were friendly slippers just as friendly as they could bel dellys mother have made slippers that friendly melly knew that copyright |