TIPPETY-TOPS LESSON

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 124, 21 November 1931, Page 18

TIPPETY-TOPS LESSON

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Tippety-top. the elf was feeling very mischievous, and as he was passing the ■wise woman's house he heard her chanting a little rhyme. He knew she was working some sort of a spell, and so le looked over the fenco to see what she was doing; and that was a very naughty thing to do. When he looked over the fence, ho saw the wiso woman stirring a little stew-pot, and as she stirred she said: "Stew-pot, Stew-pot, fill my larder up."

No sooner had she said this than the larder was packed tight with goo<? things to eat. Now Tippety-Top said to himself, "I must get that stew-pot somehow!" And so he stayed round about the wise woman's house until he saw her go out down to tho village.

As soon as she was round the corner, Tippety-Top slipped in and took the stew-pot and dashed away to his little house. When he was inside, he started to stir tho pot quickly, saying, "Stewpot, Stew-pot, fill my larder up." Then he went joyfully to open his larder, but

■when he opened it—it was quite barel Not a thing was in itl Then he thought that perhaps if he asked for some money it might work, so he asked for his purse to be filled with money, but when he looked into his purse not a farthing was there. Now he was in a fix—no food and bo money, and he was feeling very hungry. At first he was too frightened to go back to the wise woman, because he knew she would be very angry. At last, however, he did go to her, and told her the truth. The wise woman nodded ier head and shook her finger at Tippety-Top, and she said, "Perhaps this will teach you never to touch anything again without first getting the owner's permission." Tippety-Top promised, for by now he was simply starving. When he asked the wise woman why everything had gone wrong she said most likely he had been stirring with the wrong hand, because she always stirred with the left hand.

But the wise woman was not really an unkind woman, and so, taking the pot and stirring with her left hand, she wished for all Tippety's things to be returned again, and stocked his larder anew. You may be sure that this adventure cured Tippety-Top from ever taking things again. "DEIEDKE" (14). City. ■t~H++±±4~H~H~H-4~* !» + ♦»♦♦♦♦♦