THE FIRE THAT WENT OUT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 15

THE FIRE THAT WENT OUT

The Pot callod the Kettle blade. The Kottic said "You've blacker!" Which made the Pot angry, and they both .boiled over and put the fire out. "Well, if this isn't too bad!" said the Fire as ho dropped through into the grate and blew out of the kitchen door. "I shan't go back until those two have dono quarrelling!" So lie went along till he came to a big forest. "Hullo!" he cried. "What fun to •set those Trees alight!" So he ran up all the little dry branches and made a lino blaze. . . "Ah!" he cried, "this is better than the kit-■ elien grate, and those quarrelsome Pots and Kettle!" -. . .and he laughed for 'joy- ■',•■• But the Trees got , angry; They cliclii 't want to be burnt up, so they tossed their arms to the great Clouds in the sky. "Send the Bain,, send the Kain!" they cried, "and put this naughty 'Tiro out! " So the Big Clouds called ;the Little Clouds and they came rolling up from all parts of the sky till• it was all grey. Then they began to rain. : And they rained on the Trees until they dripped with water and they rained on the fire and they beat him down and down until there was only one tiny spark of life left in him. Then the Fire ran away out of the forest as fast as he could for fear they should put him quite out and in lie blew at the kitchen door. ■ "Hullo," said the Kettle. "So you've; como; back!" And when the Fire looked at her he saw that she was smiling. "Hullo," said the Pot, and he was smiling too. '' You 'ye been out ;i long time. What havo you been doing?" Then the Fire blushed a rosy red and crept back into the grate. "Never mind," whispered the Kettle. "It was our fault. If we hadn't boiled over you wouldn't have gone out. We're never going to quarrel any .more. Don't you see how the Cook has cleaned and polished us?" And the Fire, as he danced and gleamed in the kitchen grate, saw himself in the shiny sides of the Pots and Kottlo, and thought to himself, '' Home is a'very, nice place." Sent in by..- :, X&L. EICHAEDS. Wellington. ■ . ■