HIDE AND SEEK

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 41, 16 August 1930, Page 20

HIDE AND SEEK

•'lt's time you went to bed, girlie," said -father, "Bun home and toll mother I'm coming soon." So Amy went slowly down tho largo meadow which lay behind the farm. She did not hurry—for who wants to go-to bed when the harvest moon is turning the world into a silver fairyland. Besides only that morning Amy had noticed toadstools in the corner of this field a sure sign that fairies hadbeen about. "I wonder if they arc there now," slio said. She stepped.1 softly through tho grass to where tho toadstools were gleaming.in the moonlight. Not a single fairy could she see, but she sat down on the grass and -waited. "Oh, fairy folk do come soon," she sighed. Ahl it was like « soft touch of

thistle-down r on her cheek, followed by a tinkling laugh. Amy looked round and standing on a tceJstool was a tiny fairy. «oh!" gasped the little girl. She clapped her hands and there appeared fairies., everywhere. They balanced themselves On blades of grass, "Would you like to play hide-and-seek?" they asked. "Oh, yes!" exclaimed Amy. "Hold up your hand then," said the fairy. , . Amy did so and the fairy perched on her hand and closed her eyes. Very so( i n there was not a'fairy to be seen. "FAnd,"... cried Amy. < Just-then along canie her father and took lior home, JOYCE BIRD, f Jliramad,