TOR THE LIŢLE ONES

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 3

TOR THE LIŢLE ONES

« A GOOD-NIGHT STORY.

TWO KINDS OF BROWNIES.

My Dear Little Friends, —

Brown.es, ( to some of my readers who know lots about Girl Guides, are gir.s who, not being old enough to join a big Guids comoany, are given ,n charge of the Brown Owl, who teaches them all sorts of nic» games to play, and useful tasks to do.

, J h,s k,nd rf Brovmie is very wise, and you never see a lictle girl in khaki uniform with the Brownie badge on doing anything silly; but I've a story to tell you about a little Brownie who really did a very silly thin" but he is no, a Brownie of the kind which grows into a Girl Guide; he'is a Brownie that lives on the slopes of a big mountain called Mt. Snaefell. You see Mt. Snaefell is in the Isle of Man, and here lived an old farmer wno owned a sheeD station N*,.r 'it i » , . particular farmer had befriended a little Brownie and R 11. CM Guide c . r M The farmer was very pleased to let the Brownie do this for him but and stm rrep h °dTd W n°oT:iit man beCame Wh " night *'» «. Ersia ™»- in fold "Th ? °t o i;'tti ald the B f roWnie When the sheep had been tu ™ ed their fold That little ram of yours was a trouble. I chased him three times round before he would come down with the other sheep." "My little ram?" said the farmer in surprise. "I haven't one." He looked among his sheep and there found a poor, tired littU ha-e Could you imagine that a Brownie would mistake a hare for a sheep? I'm sure that no Girl Guide Brownie H m would make such a silly mistake, but you see, Goblin Brownies are /lJ ever so willing to be obliging, but (vf/)//U they are ever so stupid, and make lots of funny little mistakes.