CHILDREN'S STORY.

Evening Post, Volume LI, Issue 63, 14 March 1896, Page 5 (Supplement)

CHILDREN'S STORY.

A JOUENBT TO THB MOON. (By " Mayblossom." Very highly commended.) It was a beautiful moonlight night, and 1 I was standing at my window looking at theatara, when suddonly I felt a slight touoh ' on my right arm, and, looking round, behold 1 a most lovely fairy with a shining star on 1 her forohoad and holdiDg a silver wand. 1 Then I felt myself being taken by the hand, and going through moadows and forests. At length we ascended into the air. Higher and still higher wo rose, until I Baw two J beautiful golden gates, through whioh wo 1 passed, and entered into the moon. There I saw mountains of tremendous height, > valleys of great beauty with sparkling , streams of water winding their way through , them, also lovely flowers and magnificent ■ ferus, far more beautiful than anything I f had evar seen. All was intensely silent, and - there was not a living creature to be seen, , whon suddenly thorp foil a shadow acrosa i our path, and there emerged out of a cave in r a mountain's gido the wonderful man in the c moon. He looked about eight or nine feet 1 ja freight, and I felt like an insect in hi*

I presence. He was dressed in a poaked hat I mid green silk trousers which reached down > to his knees, he also had yellow stockings I and gold-buckled shoes. His eyes flashed like sparks of fire, and in a voice of thunder ■ he exclaimed, "What doest thou here, thou speck of dust? Begone, I suffer no intruders here !" At this my guide gently pulled . my sleeve, and said softly, " Come i away quickly, come, or he will kill i you." Then I felt myself descending lower and lower. At first the air was very cold, but it became gradually warmer as we approached the earth. As we entered it I noticed that the form of my guide beoame fainter and fainter, until at last she completely disappeared from my Bight. Then I heard nurse's voice calling me to get up, and I knew it was only a dream.