ELIZABETH'S LITTLE FAMILY.

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

ELIZABETH'S LITTLE FAMILY.

Elizabeth was a most industrious girl She could sew frills on her aprons, flalt her own hear neatly over her ears and she always dressed her children beautifully and made ail their clothes herself There were four of them: Golliwoe Peg, Meg, and the Midget. CMUWoi * always wore a tidy red coat and hlu« trousers; Peg bad a beautiful tartan «lk dress; Meg wore white because ' Elizabeth thought it suited her round rosy face; and the Midget wore nothing at all, because he was Elizabeth's new baby, and she had no time to make bin/ any clothes till she had finished the scarf/— that she was knitting for her grandpapa.' "Two plain, one purl. I really must cci '■•'■•' it done." " ; ,B %' The" garden looked very, very tempt, ing through the open window, hut ' Elizabeth kept on patiently knitting. The children were sitting at her feet X ! as good as gold, and Elizabeth was amazed to see Golliwog suddenly get up pull at her skirt, and say: "Elizabeth' that's such a dull song you're singingtwo plain, one purl! Let's go into the garden and dance." *; " And then Peg rose up and said: "No, let's skip," and she tried to snatch Elizabeth's wool for a skipping roper and Meg, smiling sweetly, began to make a cat's cradle, with the wool on the floor;' arid the Midget got up and played football with the ball. And the odd part of it was that Elizabeth couldn't answer because her head felt top-heavy, and then began to, nod in the silliest way, and she felt quite sure somebody was sitting on her eyes,..- - j .''.'■ ■'*.' She --knew- nothing else until a fly tickled her-nose and she saw the room again. £; ':. The children were all sitting at her feet as ; good as gold. Golliwog looked .7 solemn, Peg prim, Meg amiable, and the '■-". Midget so Wmall that dt seemed impossible. to believe he had ever shot a football' into a goal. But -something so annoying had happened that Elizabeth clasped her I - harids in dismay, and cried: .-7 • " ~ "Oh dear! I shall have to do iVall ' ov«e again!" The knitting needles still lay in her iap, but every stitch of knitting had been. undone; as well as the ball of wool, and it; was all twisted round the legs of the' chairs and tables. ', Then Janet came in with tea,, and ,- cried : v '"Well, I never I What a mess! J Who did-that;.Td.like to know?" : 'The dolls," declared. Elizabeth. - Janet said Elizabeth was talking nonsense. "The dolls said nothing at all, ' .and, the people next door said: ''Oh,' Micky, .where have you beent" when theirblaek kitten came home to tea, very tired 7 .-.>;."'■":•"■ ■ -■ ]■'■- '■'■■■:-■