KING WINTER
■ (Original.) j 'King Winter sat inlris'spalace of tabw,: Very, very sad. Things had not _ cone at all asc he' would lave liked them <to: during1: his reign. Old 'Man: Thunder' had! not growled ■ loud enough, Mr1/Wind had not; blown hard enough, and'1 Mrs. Bain* had" not been heavy! enough', ■ Sodn he would • have to give ■way to the Spring Maiden, but before he- • did: so) •he '•■ would Hike' to make' his! pr€»enee;'f.ejti- ;;;. > ~ . j After''thinEing'for-ia'while, ' he sent ifot^Hsrartisfeknave/Jack Frost, who soon appeared befqre His Majesty King Winter..." ..'.-.'. V .';.:_.'..' . - .-:.'' Jaefc. ]Prost,?'v he , commanded, "I bid you go and paint the earth. See that yoa'do'it well, and do.it for three Bight*" ~-•.-:': >::■, ;-. ... -,•,;• For. three mornings Mother ■ Earth tras Very cold and white. Jack Frost' had-done his duty well;. King Winter was ho ..pleased; that, ihe;.was content to^ go to sleep for twelve months until it wag-his-turn to reign-again. : . ' "GEUMPY" (11). i Karori.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 7
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150KING WINTER Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 7
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