THE BIRTHDAY WISH

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 116, 12 November 1938, Page 20

THE BIRTHDAY WISH

(Original Story by. "Fairy Stardust" (11), City).

When Joan awoke on her birthday are you?" "I am the bluebell fairy, the birds were singing and the sun an^- when you get to the well run was shining brightly from a cloudless, gj 0"^ il *hv^ k tj,mes atid wish for blue sky. Then she remembered. To- vanished. Joan was day she was eight years old. With a too astonished to say anything, but little exclamation of 'delight, she when she came to the well she ran jumped out of bed and began tp dress round it three times and wished. When hurriedly. As she tip-toed downstairs, she arrived home she found the table she thought she would1 go. to the old simply loaded with presents. After well in the woods and see if it were she had opened the presents, mother really true that you could make a wish said, "Uncle Jack is coming today, and on the morn of your birthday. he has got a surprise for you." As Joan ran through the dew-soaked "How lovely," cried Joan, grass of the wood she. heard a little That morning, when Uncle Jack voice say, "Do you really believe in came in his car, he carried two fluffy, fairies and magic wishing wells?" brown puppies in his arms. "Here Looking down, she saw a little fairy you are, my dear; these are for you!" dressed in a frilly blue dress and a "Aren't they lovely!" cried Joan "Just wand tipped with a tiny star in her what I wanted, and my wish has come hand. She was seated on a bluebell, true." Later on Joan decided to call "Oh, yes," exclaimed Joan. "But who her two pets Fluffy and Brownie.