FAIRY DEWDROP'S TOFFEE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 20, 24 January 1931, Page 20

FAIRY DEWDROP'S TOFFEE

There was a grand;ball being heH at Fairiel's palace. Best of all thefewas a competition for the fairies, to see who could-get a human recipe—oito that no fairy had ever heard of before, There was a prize for the fairy whose recipe was the best. For the next week the fairies were busy carrying out their plans, but one lonely little fairy sat and watched them. That night she flew down to the Human Eegions and found a recipe book. On the very last page she found a recipe that made her clap her hands with delight. : ' That night she could hardly sleep from sheer excitement. In the morning she stole down to earth again, and took quite a lot of things away in her acorn cup. . As the first thing the recipe said was 2 cups of sugar, and as a-human cup is bigger than any fairy living, our favourite put two fairy eupsful in her bowl, which were, of course, acorn cups. Next it said two spoonsful

of butter,' so • she .-got her Jersey cow (all fairies have Jersey cows) and proceeded to milk, then made her butter, "ThenDewdrop went and stole a cupful of vinegar out of a farmhouse in! thb Human Regions. Next came golden syrup. Now the only syrup fairies have is dew mixed with honey, so, I am sorry to say, that was stolen, too. Dewdrop put it on her electric oven, after having stisred it al! together. Soon, a delicious smell filled the air, and the fairies came to see what it was. When it had set Dewdrop sent for the fairy; butcher to cut it into fancy shape*. "What is it?" clamoured the fairies as they tasted it. "Toffee," smiled Dewdrop. That night Queen Fairiel, who wai judge, gave Dewdrop the prize—a lovely little-fairy gold, wristlet watch, tha very second iv Fairyland, for of couxs» Fairiel had tlie first, . ' „„„„„ . bIUXbH. (10). Carterton. .; . I