AN EASTER SEARCH FINDS SOMETHING

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 73, 30 March 1929, Page 15

AN EASTER SEARCH FINDS SOMETHING

"I wonder how may Easter eggs Elsie will find," laughed John, Elsie's big brother. "Even if she looks straight at one she doesn't seem to see it." Mumsie had just been hiding the Easter eggs in the dining-room and John had been helping her. Maisie and Jack and Meg and Elsie knew there were some lovely ones this time, nice big ones, with cream inside just like real eggs, with yellow yolks and white outsides. Mumsie and daddy had spent yesterday afternoon buying them. Mumsie sat in a big armchair by the window looking at her watch. When it was exacty ten o'clock she said, "Off you go, chicks," and all the children started searching. 'Jack found the first one behind the clock. It was a beauty, all wrapped up in shiny red paper with a picture on it. Maisie found the next one in the fold of a curtain, and soon Meg had found two others. Elsie, could not find one. It was just the same every year. She was sure she had examined the brown cabinet thoroughly, inside and outside and all round and underneath it. And yet when Maisie came after her she found one inside it at once. Three piles of eggs were soon growing large on the big table, but Elsie had not found one with which to begin her pile. ; "A quarter-past ten!" cried mother. "Now you must stop. Youve been quick, children. There's still one you haven't found, though. It s a pink one, with lots of little ones inside it. Ithink we ought to let hlsie have a real good hard try to find it by herself." So, with their arms full of their finds, the children followed Mumsie and John out of the room. ■ . . "I will find it," she said to herself, "even if I have to go as slow as a snail. I'll do the floor first." She began to creep carefully round the floor on hands and knees. She looked under the carpet, and under every bit of furniture, but, no, she could not-find that egg. Underneath a little side table a. corner of the linoleum had come up a little. Elsie crawled under the table and peered underneath that. Ihere '