TWO KINGS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21992, 16 January 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)

TWO KINGS

"O-o-o-h!" gasped everyone a* once. _, • Lady Gay walked into "The Press Ship" dining saloon carrying a littla cake beautifully iced.

"Is it ray birthday already?'* cried. Ernest excitedly, recovering: from his surprise. "No, duffer, you can't remember anything. It's my, . .'* •'Oh no it isn't Peter's," broke in, Lady Gay. "You can't remember anything either. Please tell the two sillies what it is for, MotherBunch." "Why, of course," said Mother Bunch, trying to look important, but not succeeding very well because she was so excited. '"lt is a, Twelfth Day Cake, and the on<s who gets the button is king all day." Lady Gay started to cut the littlet cake, while eager eyes watched for, the button. There was no sign ot it, however, and when the pieces were handed round everyone was too shy to begin eating. At last Peter began to eat his piece, and. the others ate theirs. Suddenly Peter choked, and at the same time Ernest felt some* thing hard in his mouth. "I've got it," they both cried to-. gether, and produced—not a wholo button, but two halves. Yes! Two halves, and exactly this same size, because Mother Bunch measured them with her measuring tape. So King Peter and King Ernest the two friends became, and didn't they stir up "The Press Ship." Lady Gay wore out her most expensive smile, and Mother Bunch dropped all her stitches and had to start all over again the next day*

Their Majesties ordered everything they could think of, and the things that happened are too numerous to mention. That night as King Peter and King Ernest crawled into bed very full and sick they both made a vow that they would never be kings again. Lady Gay and the othershope so too. —'MATE SHAMROCK, L.B.H. Papanui(