A NEGLECTED DUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 236, 5 October 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

A NEGLECTED DUTY.

(By Theo Mountfort, Matnpuna, Taumarnnui; age 1.3.) The fairy of the dawn is very beautiful, with flashing, fiery wings, eyes of the azure bine of a : uninier sky, and a glorious cloud of flowing golden hair, on which she wears a circlet of glittering dewdrops. Her duty is to herald the approach of King Sun ami to show him his way to the world. Each morning as she arises from her bed the last beams of the fleeing moon catch the tips of her wings, making them glow like those of a million fireflies so that all living ' creatures seeing'the light on the horizon know that day approaches. But one morning the fairy felt lazy. The air was cold, while her bed was warm, so . she chose the latter like so many mortals do nowadays, and decided to remain where she was. She snuggled down on her mattress of cloud, pulled the blanket of darkness still further over herself, and was soon re .timing to the land of dreams, which shows that all fairies are not models of perfection when it comes to getting up on a cold morning. Meanwhile darkness still reigned on earth; the people, on awakening to find no light, immediately followed the fairy’s example, and returned to their beds and to dreamland. King Sun, not seeing the fairy in her usual place, thought he must have come to the wrong place, so he went off in the opposite direction, while his brothers. Wind and Rain, came in his stead. There was a terrible storm on the earth, the wind howling and raging, the rain pouring down in torrents. The flowers shut