THE PENNIES OF HENRY ST. GEORGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 96, 24 April 1926, Page 26

THE PENNIES OF HENRY ST. GEORGE.

Once upon a time there lived a young rat, and his name was Henry St. George. One day when he had become nearly grown up his father went and sat in'the library and sent a housemaid to fetish him. I i : ■

And, the father of Henry St. George wore very glittering kinds of eyeglasses, and he had grey whiskers that kept*, on twitching: - ' V-.

And when Henry St.- George got to the library, his father gave him a very big bag.of pennies, and he, said that -now Henry St. George was nearly grown up" he had better take care of all his pennies himself, and he hoped very much that Henry St. George would do nice and good kinds' of things 'with them. ■ And Henry St. George was very pleased and glad, and he rushed out, very quickly and bought a high collar because he wanted to be very grown up.' Then he thought that it would be very 'nice to go for a taxi drive, so he called out with his voice until a taxi-cab came. Then he jumped into it, and told the driver person to go on driving, till he told him to stop. So the 'driver person drove and drove and drove, and Henry St. George looked out of the window, arid tossed with his head at people who weren't in taxicahs. And he liked it very much. .'.-'.'.' .7

But it happened-that he tossed with his head at Dan the Fox Terrier, and Dan didn't like people tossing with their heads "at him at all, and he growled with his voice and chased after him;- '~..•

When the driver person saw Dan the'• Fox Terrier coming after them he began td get very flurried; and he made a mistake and ran the taxi into a prater fountain. And all the bag of pennies, arid all the taxi-cab, and all Henry St. George were upset into the water!

And Henry St. George had to climb out and run away very quickly on his feet so that he could escape from Dan the iFox Terrier.

Arid he ran and ran and ran, and he dodged round lampposts and up side streets until Dan the Fox Terrier was quite tired out and had left off chasing him about.

Then he sat down on a doorstep arid wept "because he had lost all his pennies and he didn't happen to know which way to go home.

And when the person that lived in the *>ouse heard him weeping and calling out, Ye was very surprised and frantic, bemuse of the kind of noise that he was making, so he gave him a concertina because he thought that it might make

nioer Ends of notaes, and he away, .and told him to i»-£/rt hai tlw next street,X£&Sn£*l ia much fonder of musi™ *^ pk W «e until one day he jound I&SSJ£ gave the concertina to the houseK and had tea, and wept because of all* 7 kinds of things that had hapL ne f - But ever afterwards he always gave' all the penmes that he happened tow to his father so that he might look after -