THE CANDY FAIR

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22195, 11 September 1937, Page 7 (Supplement)

THE CANDY FAIR

"What are those brown balls?" she •sked. She pointed to them with • her royal first finger. Augustus hopped from the back of the big chair to old Sweet Tooth's

shoulder. "Wake up, masterl" ho hooted. "Here's a customer!" Old Sweet Tooth opened his eyes. As soon as he saw a little girl in her best dress and with a crown on her head and a balloon in her hand he knew she was a princess. , He rose to his feet and bowed politely. "What are those brown balls?" aßKtd the princess again. "I don't Know, Your Royal Highness," old Sweet Tooth said honestly, for he didn't know. "I haven't hod time to examine them yet, but to the best of my knowledge they are a new kind of candy." • "Let me taste one?" asked the i princess, and she held out her royal hand. Old Sweet Tooth shook his head. "No one can taste a new candy until the kins has seen it," he mid. "That's the rule of the fair. And how do I know if your royal would let you eat one?" Princess Arabella stamped her foot "I shall taste it!" she cried. "I'm the king's eldest daughter, and I shall taste it now!" "No," said old Sweet Tooth, and he was frightened to death to say no to a princess. "No one can taste a new candy until the king has seen it Thatfe tim rul« of the fairr

The Princess Arabella looked ai old Sweet Tooth, and old Sweei Tooth looked at the princess. Suddenly the princess ran in fronl of the table. She called in a loud voice, "Father! Father!" The thin soldiers and the fal policemen heard her. Now that she was in front of the tables they could see her. They ran to her. "Here's the princess!" cried the thin soldiers. "We found her!" "We found the princess!" cried th« fat policemen. -fWe know her by her crown!" "You didn't find me!" exclaimed Princess Arabella, "i found my<

self! Go and tell the king, my father, to come and 6ee Jthis new candy so I can taste it. Hurry!" In two minutes the king and queen and the Princess Annette and the Princess Agatha came through the crowd. "Oh, Arabella," began the queen. ' How could you run away?" "Please, mother dear, never mind that now!" begged Princess Arabella "Let father look at this new candy so I can taste it. You said I could taste the new candy if I ate my carrots. Look at it! Did you ever see candy look like that before? Just like brown balls!" "Well, my word!" cried the king. He put on his royal spectacles and looked at the brown balls. -Where'* the Prune Minister?" he asked in a loud voice. And when the Prime Minister hurried to hhtf he looked at the Prime Minister crossly. "You said there mat no new candy at the fair. What do you call this?* The Prime Minister put on his spectacles and looked at the brown balls. 'They were not here when I went round the booths and the tables before the fair opened," hi

By FRANCES R. STERRETT

I "What is inside of them?" the king asked old Sweet Tooth. * ! When he heard that question old Sweet Tooth looked awfully frightened. "I don't know, Your Majesty!" he stammered. The king's frown was awful to see. "Don't know! Don't know"" the king shouted. "How dare you bring candy to the fair unless you know what is in it? Arabella lt t ? uch u Patter.again I shall have , tc L whacl s y° ur fingers! Dear; fait and nobody knows what it

(To be continued.)