Show ia I 4 X j evening fairy tale for the children x t y by MARY GRAHAM BONNER X now fly high you know Is the special bird of the elves lie has ft great red body and enormous black wings ico come ply fly high called effie elf and from somewhere no one could hardly tell where fly high swooped down into elfland here I 1 am said fly nigh high for as 09 fly elgh Is only a bird of elfland lie can talk and very often he explains the trips tile the elves take hurrah 1 shouted effle elf you tame ame so quickly we want to seo see our cousins tile the members of the oaf family will you take us to oafland by nil all means said F ly iilah shall sha it we start right away awall asked all the elves 1 11 I am ready said MY fly iilah 1 I am just anxious for a good fly I 1 want aoi to stretch my and feel the wind against them and I 1 want to feel all tile the little elves on my back our wondrous fly iilah said the elves dancing happily about bu dut rily fly iilah do you suppose there would be room on your back for or the members of the bogey family and the gnomes A great ninny many 0 of f them want to go 90 with will us po no you think you manage us all certainly certainly by all means said fly high lets be off so all the elves and a great many of 0 tile the gnomes and bogeys climbed on fly back and his broad black wings spread way out until every littie were 0 if at last creature find it a one fine soft feathery seat scat were ot off at last said fly high and lets go quickly kly said the elves they new flew along so very quickly and as they lew they passed by birds who were chirping and singing the birds were not frightened flight fright ned ined by the size of fly I high elgh for they knew he hb was the bird of elfland Ul fland and that lie he would ne verdo th them em a any ny harm barm at lost last they all reached the spot where the members of the oat oaf family were all the family joined in the trip and a wonderful wonderful trip they had at the end of it the members of the oat oaf family asked the elves to send around word once more that there were no dangerous naughty little e creatures among the oat oaf family so many untrue stories had gone around about them and the elves promised in fact they wanted to see tile the members of the oaf family particularly this time to ask them if they want those messages to go around again and tell them that not a single member of the dogey bogey fill family would hurt them said the members of the bosey bogey family its cruel of creatures to say well catch children we ve hurt a single child for or anything in tile the world whether good or naughty and the elves knew tills this was true a 1931 western nave ua union 4 |