GOOD-NIGHT, STORIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 185, 8 August 1927, Page 11

GOOD-NIGHT, STORIES.

DAVID MAKES A PLEASANT DISCOVERY. ■ TolJ by BLANCHE SILVEK for TETER PAN.) j David sat on a Ing whittling an old ; stick. Mor-t oi the boys in the neigh- | bourhood had gone to the circus, but j David s mamma was very poor and! David couldn't enjoy all the things that i his little friends did because his mamma '< couldn't afford it.

But David was a Boy Scout and, like a little man, he never complained. He ; sat whittling and trying; to whistle,: when a tiny buzzing sounded under; him. David looked all around and couldn't! see anything, yet the merry buzzing I kept right on. j

"Well, someone's happy, anyway,", he laughed. "I wish ' : j "Uere I am," laughed a merry voice, I and Happy Giggles, the wee elrin from j make-believe-land, hopped up in front. of David. "Didn't wait for you to finish ■ that wish." ;

"I'm very -lad to >t-e you, Happy ! Giggles/' said David. •'Listen to that, happy song. Wonder who it is 7 Can't! we slip up ou him and surprise him r'

Happy Giggles laughed merrily and! touched David's knee with his "magic I feather. Quick as a wink lie ! to shrivel up. and before he knew what. wiis happening, lie was standing down ; by the end of the U.g, no larger than i a garden spider. !

The elfin took his hand end together ', they stepped into the end of the hollow j

"Who r-Miiif-s there'"' .demanded a j buzzy voice, and a great, big Bee walked j right up to David'and Happy Giggles. l "Oh, so it's you, Happy. I'm'sure Mother! Carpenter liee will lie very glad to see' you, even though -he is very busy." ;

David's eyes almost, popped out of) his head when he saw what was going ; on in.-ide of the ° c I

Mother Carpenter Bee was quite! pleased when she saw her guests and took them all over her little house. They went down a long tunnel, off which opened a great many little rooms, all connected with lovelv*arches.

"I've been very busy getting my rooms! ready,"' she laughed merrily. "You see. some of the hunters came with a spider or insect, which we put down in the! bottom of the room—that's for food! when the youngster hatches out, you j know—then over this is placed a thin ' floor covering; then the egg is placed: upon that floor. Over this must be laid ! another floor, and so on until all my j eggs are covered carefully. It takes a ' great deal of time and patience. Would j you believe it, I built the very first • house I had myself with these saws you i see in my mouth. But since then I've : had plenty of help. Now, this tier of rooms is several storeys high."

"But how can the fellows underneath l hatch out first:"' .->>ked David. ' •'They don't/' buzzed Mrs.' Carpenter Bee merrily. "The fellows in the ! that were laid last hatch out first. You '

| see, all the males hatch first and then i the foniale? come !ater. Oh. Nature i- a J wonderful thing. Now 11 yuuil excu-e me, I must get busy. Be* careful you don't pet poked into a eell by mistake " David and Happy Gigjrles* knew this ■ was a pohte way f,, r Mrs. Carpenter ■ Bre to a>k them to leave; so, : mi-rrily, they ran out into the sunshine , and dowu the path toward the woods in search of new adventure.