CALL OF THE CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 150, 27 June 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)

CALL OF THE CLUB.

Tic-Tac folded up his answers and posted tliem at once. Then he had to wait Until the results were announced on the notice board by the swimming po&l. Two days later, when the results were posted up, the- old shoe mender was waiting in front of the board; Sure enough his name was first on the list. He had won the Fairy farthings. "Oh, Flick," a little, sad voice said, "we haven't won; What will we do? Now we've no home and nowhere to go. Whatever can we do?" Tic-Tac turned round quickly and saw two little green elves exactly alike. Great tca-s were rolling down thenfaces and they were as miserable as could be. When he asked them what was the matter they explained that they had no money to pay for food and rent, and that they had done the answers hoping to win the Fairy farthings. Then a terrible thought struck TicTac. If ho had not entered for the competition then Flick and Flip would have won, as they were second on the list. And he wouldn't have entered if he had not used the Magic Thinking Cap. He had won by a trick and the poor little 'elves »had no home. But how could lie tell all the Forest Folk about the Thinking Cap? They would laugh at him and never ask his advice again. "But," he thought, "why can't I take these little twin elves to live with me? They are really quite nice fellows, and I do get rather lonely in the tree house." . " And so it was decided. Flick and Flip came to live with ,Tic-Tac, and he •gave them two little white beds in his top floor room, and; as. nobody ever heard about the Magic Thinking Cap, Tic-Tac is still thought to be the wisest person in Fairyland.