THE SNOW-PRINCESS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 15

THE SNOW-PRINCESS

Although it had stopped snowing and the sun had come out, Mabel and. Clare were not allowed to go out,of the house. "No," Mummie had said, "you have just got over the 'flu, so I can't let you go out yet," so they were just looking out of the window, watching the sun glinting on the snow and the world in its white cloak. "It just looks like Fairyland, doesn't it?" said Clare, looking with wondering eyes at the earth in its new garb. "Look, there is a fairy coach and there is the' Queen's palace, and there—oh,, look—-look at this!" She turned to Mabel in great excitement. The two little girls looked with amazed faces on to the snow-covered lawn. A little white figure tripped from behind a tree. She was dressed in a long flowing white frock, spangled with pearls and edged with snowflakesi A long white veil under

a silver crown and large silver-spangled wings showed that she was no ordinary person. With a smile to the children, she began to dance, tripping over the lawn until at last, with a wave of her hand, she dropped a white paper parcel under the window and vanished the way she had come. "Goodness!" Mabel,at last found her tongue. "Whatever was it? Spooks or what?" , For answer, Clare.opened the parcel which the dancer had dropped. It was a book about fairies, and inside was written — "To Mabel and Clare Russell, From the Fairy Princess of the Snow, Princess Sparklebright." ' There was no more dullness that day, though, had they heard the conversation that went on next door, they would have been surprised. "Well, did you do it?" a boy named Eric asked. "Were they surprised, Elsie?" . "Surprised!" laughed Elsie, "why their eyes were nearly popping out of their heads. When I'd done the dance I put the book under the window, and I saw them take it away; They were so pleased." "It was lucky we had that dress for our concert," said Hilda, who was Eric's sister. "It came in useful." ; "PETER PAN." Wadestown. :