THE MAGIC BASKETS.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 5, 7 January 1928, Page 17

THE MAGIC BASKETS.

1 On the wonderful slopes of the § I Rockies there lived two little Bed c 1 Indian girls. They would have been m 1 so happy together but for their m m fierce old stepmother, who beat g 1 them whenever she could. At last m ■ the old woman became so cruel that a m the two sisters ran away from home. = 1 But In the prairie land, where = S they went, they pined for the fir j§ 1 trees of their native place, and It g 1 was not long before they mad* up §§ 3 their minds to return. s 1 As they neared their old home, m m their Good Spirit told them to make m m two tiny baskets, the size of §§ B thimbles, out of strips of the first a H flr tree they came to, fill them with m m food, and take them as a present 1 1 to their stepmother. The Red In- g I dians, you know, carry even water m S in baskets plaited from spruce §| H strips, the wood swelling with the §§ € wet and becoming watertight. §| 1 When the two little girls saw I g, their stepmother in the distance, fj g they were amazed to see the spruce m m thimbles grow Into enormoas has- m M kets filled with luscious fruits and 1 H all sorts of dainty morsels. §§ g The old woman, at the sight of B g her stepdaughters, hated them more m g than ever, bat the good things in 1 a the baskets attracted her so much p §j that, for the moment, she could IE 1 think of nothing else. Though she m m ato very fast, the magic baskets B m never seemed to get empty, and be- Bi m fore she had decided to turn the E H two little girls away again, the m m greedy old woman hurst Into small i§ a pieces. m WmmmmmmimnmmmmmmmmmiimM