THE LITTLE GOOSE-GIRL

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 258, 28 July 1934, Page 23

THE LITTLE GOOSE-GIRL

Poor little Gwenda was very unhappy. Ever since she 4>ould remember she bad lived with a cross old lady who . made her work very hard. When the day’s scrubbing wag done. Gwenda was sent out, with the geese. “How I wish I had someone to piny with,” she of‘on sighed- Que day she wandered down to the river with rhe geese and sat down on a little hillock to rest! Suddenly she noticed a boy drop his purse. It fell with a splash into the river and us he. leaned forward to grasp jt his foot slipped. The next second be was floundering in the water. Gwenda sprang to her feet and ran toward the river. She thrust her staff toward him and said. “Take n firm hold.” The boy clutched the polo and. using ..11 her strength, the little maid was able to pull bun ashore. “You’ve saved me,” he gasped. Boris lived in the castle nearby and Gwenda felt very shy when he took her to bls parents, “May Gwenda be my play« mate?" he risked, When BorU’s parents heard hrw Gwenda had save ’ him they asked her to live with them. .So Gwenda Is never unhappy or lonely now.

—Original'-by “Heather Ben,” specially far the “Junior Dominion” week page. Aged 14, Featherston.