| Show fairy tale for children at bedtime bedd e by MARY GRAHAM BONNER one day as the fairies were playing in the beautiful garden and were talking to old mother earth they heard some little whispers down in the ground oh we are so anxious to come up was one of the little whispers dear me said one of the fairies what does that little whisper mean mother earth oh that Is one of those impatient little radishes they cannot benr bear to stay in the ground when the nice spring weather Is here besides they think very beautiful and that red is so bright and gay after the long winter of snow and the early spring days of slush and mud they are really very proud of themselves and now they are becoming so anxious to get up that I 1 suppose I 1 must let them very ery soon then from not tar far off some other whispers came up through the earth they were quite like those of the radishes but not exactly the same the fairies decided this time it was something else besides an impatient little radish whispering we want to come up said the sounds we can just see above the earth and we like the looks of 0 everything on top of the ground our families have often told us how nice mr sun Is and mr spring mr giant who was walking by rain and that when we came up and looked about us we were admired right away by real people then we were ere talen taken up and put on a lovely dish and soni something ething soft and cool put over us they called it dressing and then we were eaten up the fairies laughed hard at that for they were not used to hearing whispers such as then well be eaten up said in such happy tones well said the queen of 0 fairies 1 I can plainly see that tile the only thing for me to do Is to give a dinner party and old sir giant who was walking by said well you give one tor for the radish family and pill ill give one tor for the lettuce family and well see which will wil I 1 give the party first of 0 all tills this made the greatest excitement in fairyland F al ryland but those little radishes grow and grow until they were ready to be pulled up first and they were so proud I 1 never before had they been at a d dinner in party given by the fairies they certainly were looking their best so red and bri bright glit and tender and young old mr giant thought it a great jolie joke that the radishes had won the race in tills way and then he had a dinner party at the first party the treat was radishes and at the second it was lettuce a 1931 eastorn newspaper union |
