FOR THE GIRLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 189, 11 August 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR THE GIRLS.

■ ■ * IN WENDY'S GARDEN, THE LUCKIEST FLOWER IN THE WORLD My Dmt Girlij ■ ' i _ I am still buy in my garden among the flower tisMrn. tal I 1. quaintest old Irish gardener in to help me |* M i iy '* ■> do mock work, (or he is fuQ of the most wonderful stories J* *—ft brogue is so beautiful, I just lore to listen to l«im. *"• Hi "Oi see ye have a foine bed of the iuclcy flowers,' M;«. u/-_« Patrick, looking at my big blue violets. "*■>» *4 "Aren't they darlings? Do tell me why they're lucky l drawing on my gardening gloves. "We can spare a minute.** * ''Yes, Miss, them's the good people's flowers, and whm I . Old Ireland, like ye and your friend Peter Pan ye often t»iy, -ITV believed in the fairies. Once there was a real pretty fairy who U|S *5 sweethearts anyhow, for the rose, and the lily, and the h.I«. _n - • wos mad about her." «Wr "But Patrick," 1 said, laughing, "roses and tulips are not ert-- • you know." "Well, never mind about that, they wos in the good old hi- - . was a lad. Anyway, I'm tellin' ye, they was all makin* love at the same time. The vi'lot wos fair erased about her, too, bat say much, just looked at her with his little blue eyes, oh! so Tfc. tender. The fairy goes rousfd, first to one, and thin to f| would ye do?* she says, 'if a great storm of wind and rain wos'to which of ye would give me shelter, I'm wonderin'?* They all iu...!* nor .rain should harm the fairy. All but the vi'lot, an* he jnst lookedVT? with big blue eyes, ohl so faithful and thrue. Then sure enough A.* came on, thunder and lightnin* and wind and rain, m* m * fairy to the rose for shelter." •

" 'No,' says he, 'it's looking after meself I must be these hard «r It's mighty sorry I am,' said the lily, 'but there's no room for - **- The tulip was real mad. "lit out with ye,' he cries. It's settia' tka afther ye, I'll be do in'.' Bat the violet, lie says nothin', and just her, an* he moves his leaves aside, and the fairy spies *t warm - - in she creeps. An* that w*s the way she found out which of thtaluj A. faithful heart and soul that could not change, no! in spite of wind . the thunder and the lightnin', nayther. An* she says to tka 'Whoever has to do with vTlots will always have the of |U • - wurrld !' " "Thank yon, Patrick, that is n beautiful story, I shall always love 1 * the violets more than ever now, _ a SSS!-- l i" T