SAVING KINDNESS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 90, 10 January 1931, Page 19

SAVING KINDNESS

Did you know that all the year round the fairies save up for Christmas, just as you do. Well, they do, but not pennies, because they have no need for money 1 You’ll never guess what it is that they save, so I’ll tell you. Just inside the gates of fairyland is the fairies’ savings bank, and every time a fairy returns to fairyland from doing her day’s work in our world She goes to Goblin Goodfellow, who looks after the bank, and tells him all she has done during the day. Then the goblin opens his books and writes down just how many kind things she. has done. Then, when Christmas comes, each fairy has a present just as big as the kind things which the goblin has written in his books. Now, there was one little fairy named Fernella, who was really rather lazy, for she would much rather swing in her cobweb hammock than work. When Christmas came, along went Fornella with all the rest to see Goblin Goodfellow. “What name?” he asked, i “Fernella, please, sir,” said Fernella, timidly. The goblin hunted through book after book, and at last he shook his head.

“I’m Very Sorry,” he said sadly, “your name isn’t written in any of my books.” Poor Fernella! She was sorry that she had been so lazy, for, of course,

there was no Christmas present for her! .

‘Just then along came Fairy Mellsande, and, seeing Fernella crying, she asked what was the matter.

“Dear, dear', that’s bad!” she said “Never mind, I’ve got quite a nice, large present this year. You shall have some of it.”

And so Fernella had a present after all! And the fairy queen got all the goblins to make up a special Christmas tree for Melisande —just as an extra present, because she had been so kind! But Fernella made up her mind that she would stop being lazy, so that the next year she would be able to have a present that was really and truly her own.

Dorothy Newfield,. 44 Aro Street, Wellington, would like "White Heather” to write to her. Patricia McKinley, Karapoti, Upper Hutt, would like to exchange letters with “Stella Bunny” and Edna Tapp.