THE FAIRY RING

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 20

THE FAIRY RING

A PRINCESS CAME

(Written Specially for the r airy King by Edith Howes.)

SLIM DELIGHT and Little Glad-young days. "Tho night is.no timo sang Princess Blithe, and went on her All-m^vlnte passed by. * The_ old ness came down the hill, singing for a princess to bo out of doors. The happy way. Queen died," sho told the princess, of their joy in the morning. palaco for you then, my girl! Eemom- "Let winter come. Who cares?" and the palace was deserted. Then "The dear day! The happy day!" ber what I say, and do what I tell you. echoed a young prince, following her. there came a landslide one wet day, they sane. "Oh, the freshness of the when the sun goes down, home you Ho had just flown in over the fence and its doorways and passages have <j a y[>> come " from the clover fields, and was hand- been blocked.ever since.". . From her bed of: flower petals Prin- But when the sun went down, homo some, and merry, and full of life. "Oh, dear!" sighed the poor princess Blithe sprang to oin their song tho princess did not go. "If only my- "How beautiful you are, Princess," cess "now, where shall I go?" . "The wSi Tl?o moving airf" mother had'not built the palace under- ho said. "Your eyes are like jewels She remembered; a big house mi top sho Van* "Oh the fra "ranee of the ground!" she-said to herself;, for in the sun, and your, wings are more of a lull, and a kmd fjreo.--that looked ■dt' Oh the freedom of theT air'" strangely enough, that was whero the elegant than any I have seen. Play out from its doorway. She rememberThat hud been her son* from her palacf was built! . "The rooms and with me, and let us be happy to- ed seeing a little gnome taken m and cJdcdays Tho •£■ the 3 open ! passages arc so hot and stuffy, while gether." sheltered, when old• SlinkerSvas -after "ff,.;!;., <'i et iie out' Oh-let out hero it is cool and fresh. I-will So they played together, nnd the him, and she .remembered how sho -had m f out!-' she beE-ed L soon as she not, cannot go home." .... summer days went by. . seen him -.going. m and Out ..happily sneak and on her littto young She mado herself a bed of flower Autumn came drifting over the land, . many times since. "I will g^ere," fee she wouldrun and escape from petals, and out' there" she slept sweetly scattering red and gold on every side, she thought "aml_ perhaps that kind f...T whenever Oicir ovSs were all the night. She was not at all afraid, Night winds . grew chilly, the leaves lady will take mo in." ;;;■;;■-. nffW -~n tllu\ c> ts flclß £or she carried a spear, fine but very shivered and fell, tho sun shone less She flew to the-big-house on top of oil nor toi a moment.. Besides, who would harm Prin- and less gaily. But tho princess play- the hill. Mrs. Kind Bush came to the She was ono of the Flying -t oik, one oCgs * B i itlie oJ = .yjyi nCT Folk? • ed on and would not return to tho door. "Havo: you any room for-me of the grandest of them all, for her -^ i( . wag that g]io an _ ™ y f u i]y t0 palaco. She made herself a little tent in your house?" askod-Princess Blithe, mother was a queen; but she had no th(j mornino . when Little Glad- of bark, and slept under that. "In summer I liked'to be out iv the love for palace walls am tJie indoor f IOSS all(i S ij m Delight came down'the. Thcro came a night of bitter storm, sweet air, but = now. winter has come life. "Out thoro it is all bright and h . JL Her flrst . ]x | in th(J . , How oJlding in f ros f. In the morning the and lam cokl." • beautitul," she would, say. Lot me RaY) how fresh and' strong she felt! trees stood almost bare, and flowers' "Of course I"have room," said Mrs. out!" .'■■■'■' Who would sleep in a palaco rather- hung black and dead. The poor prince, Kind Bush. ."I am gl?> to'-have room. When her wings had grown long (-] lan lm fl el . tho starry sky? too, lay; dead, frozen, where he had Come in, coino in.•" -You shall.have the enough and strong enough to bear her, Now began a happy- time for the tried to shelter under* fallen leaves.' warmest parlour' on the-ground floor, oft" she flew, and refused to como back. ]\ ti \ Q p r i nce ss. AU,day she sang and Princess Blitho cams out from her Come in, for you are mor.o. than wcl-"No,"-she: told her nurses. "No, I fj ow a , l( j a aneo( i ahiong the flowers of littlo'tent and gazed sadly at him ly- come." She bustled gently about, and will never livo iv that palaeo again. I the gardens, or roamed the paddocks • ing so stiffly there. Cold, cold, it had soon >ad the princess cheered, and at cannot bear to bo cooped up. Air and all( j CX p] O rcd the valleys and the hills.. been. .No wouder ho had not lived homo, sunshine and-freedom for me!" - Each night she slept in a blossom bed. l.hrough.such anight. Sho, herself had <<^ princess has tomo to live with The old-queen, her moth or, ilew out Food she found iii plenty: honey and hardly borne it in her tout. Winter vs j> jj rs% gpj nn cr told the others, and found her where sho danced among honeydew, golden grains and fruits, and had come, the air was no longer kind, <<i HU >t, it grand?" the Canterbury ;Bolls. "Do what you sweet juices and guma. Tho sun shone, tho sky was pitiless. The thought of "y eS) indeed!" said Fiddler proudwill during the day, but como home'to the littlo winds crooned among tho her mother's palace, underground and jy. '*I have already seen her." the 'palace: at night," the Queen said trees, skies wero blue, and Princess warm,, came with straugo comfort to " << N(JW wo must put on our best mansharply. -'•' ■■-.. .••■■• <• Blithe swung sparkling through it all, her mind. . ~ <. aid o]( j -|j oni "But I want to sleep out of doors, blissful and free. , Slowly, faint-winged with cold, sho > - i, ni , < , n f ll i''vnii h-ivo Airs out in tho cool sweet air," cried Prin- "All very well while summer lasts, ilew back : to her old home. But, alas! , th ; Princess ''We cess Blithe. "Indeed,'your Majesty, Imy girl!" said the old Queen, her Sho could not find the door. No ent- K»id fousnT said the^i lintoss. We shall bo happier here." ,-" mother, meeting her one day. "But ranco was there, nothing showed but an come 10 you. ~,.-, "Happier? Kubbish!" scolded her wait till winter comes. Just wait!" fallen earth where the bank above had "That is what I tun here lor, said mother, who' had. forgotten her own "Let winter come. Who cares?" been. Mrs. Kind Bush. ~

r »»t'-t -m .. ■ -I-, - ■ . -. .V. ■ . . - it... - - ■■ - v i. ll'cTT.lil t"« »»'»-'«"l"l""'1 ■--■«' i PIXIE PEOPLE: - -.'"•■. j j Who was it who said lliaL fairies-wouldn't bf Vairies if we , { could see them? But, seen or unseen, you'll all know Fairy { I Magic so long as you can keep Gladness-'in your hearts and J } Kindness in your thoughts . . for they are the secrets of Youth, » L and fairies have no age at all. That is why I, who am a bund- J • red thousand years older than any of you, can still talk wisely ♦ i to the youngest elf of you all! Or maybe unwisely,, times » } when there's mischief in the air, and it has crept even-, into' the | | Fairy Ring ... when Fairiel, like the naughtiest hobgoblin J -I everm, should be soundly spanked and sent to bed! .. . Yes, J j truly! - ♦ ' But I'm forgetting Easter. Arc there any Eastcry stories « ! on the way to me yet, pixies?-—-or verse, or pictures? ' Easter { J holidays are usually exciting times so do your best. { » All ray love to all of you. ! | • ■?■.>■ .. FAIRIES [ i -■■'■ ■ ■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■ -■ <■■ ■■■■' ■■■■ ■■■" .• ♦