HAPPY THOUGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 299, 18 December 1935, Page 26

HAPPY THOUGHT.

(By Alison Snow, Otumoetal, Tauranga.) A drowsy, 6tar-dusted little piece of gladness tumbled to earth. Because it found above a busy city a poet struggling witli liia pen, and because it was a lpnely little thing, it fluttered upon the paper before him and became a wonderful inspiration. And the flying pen wrote a story that breathed of freedom and exultation. That was because little gladness was born on high and lived, lived forever, —and the story woke new hope in the gloom, for its message was sweet and fresh. However happy thought with gladness in its wako sought the green, lovely country. A small girl was dreaming in the* shade and the little thing found her and nestled close in her windy curls. Presently the little girl awoke and when she saw the blue above, and the wisp of 'glistening water below, and heard the blithe bird-song, was happy, and tossed her curls and skipped in sheer delight. Little dog sprang around her and yipped and danced too, apd when he got tangled up in little girl's feet, little dog and little girl rolled over and over down the' slope in a little mingled mass of buoyancy. When little girl remembered lonely brother at home, happy thought tangled closer, and with a trill of glee, little girl raced litle dog to the pond, and in a rusty tin caught four wriggly tadpoles for little boy, who was eick.