SPRING AND A LITTLE MEMMAIDEN

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 83, 4 October 1930, Page 20

SPRING AND A LITTLE MEMMAIDEN

'y'A3"'t£e'' littlemcnjiaidcn glided upirards. tiirougli. the? green water a small tflfill'/snot'ifroni her* tail to her ; tippiest' fcttill,{fo'r it was her turn to visit tho iajAil "mortals. She had never been

ao before at this time o' year, and-tlio tmesi littlo thrill told her thai, something Tonaerful was about to happen. Her favourite "whito horse" lilted her ~~Wf& 1* &* shoj'fe, fln<) she soon

discovered.a. siuf'u^y' rock in a' darling, Warm; jbaby /iP-Pdl-.- ~, '■ < X '; ■./■;. Then1' shecrocked,'past; vthcJ'.-beach to the woods" which bordered<:on: it, and gasped at the scqne before her. Through lacy 'greeii'-trefes'the-'sua'~lilteied, casting a.-vwaxcfirig .-pattern of:,light and shade.:-^....The.little,-, inerniaiden had chanced. HP93V a ,tjny. corner.,.,.of Fairyland; ""'Pkle' gfblden'^ripiroses' formed <i soft, fragiant cat pet, and behind them stretched daffodils—beautiful stiong-heaited things. Dehcateljhntcd wood auemqnes clusteiod in tnondly littlo gioups, and though she could not ' sco them, the peifume of violets filled her nostrils. A chorus of biid-voices bmst from the tices, and a gieen-elad nymph appeared. She performed an adoiable dance full of twirls and turns and gay litle skips, and everywhore her pink little foes touched spTang flowers and moic tlowcis. "Why," whispered the litt]p mci'maulen, "I have boen Springl" At the sound of her \ojcu, low though it was, Spi mg gaie t i shj- little binile, poised v fur si moment on tiptoe, and, kissing her finger-lips jll i'aicnull —fled. "OJUTAA" (15). Citjß; - - '