GOLDEN HEADED TOMMY

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 104, 29 October 1932, Page 10

GOLDEN HEADED TOMMY

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"Fairies!" said Tommy with fine scorn. "Did' y°u ever! Why, Betty, only stupids believe in them things!" And Tommy, turned a pair of laughterladen blue eyes, upon Ms sister. ."I don'tcare./1. still think that there are fairies.:. Anyway, you could not see theniif you tried," and poor Betty turned to go. . .'■'■•■'. "Children, please don't quarrel," sang out,a rich golden voice, and there before the children's eyes appeared the sweetest:- vision ="•they had ever beheld —a fairy, clad in a cloud of marigold dust, perfect:in form and feature. ''Come, ; Betty,"she.: called,' ''you and I will take Tommy to, Land," and stepping into the heart of a marigold, .she beckoned the two children to follow. : Down, .down, down, through a-long chute of darkest green, until- Bt ; lasti; with a tiny jolt, their feet touched'-the: biittpni;:'. They'found themselyeg'in a^big round'room. "fairies!'' Tommy gasped.,.''Wh~yy:they;are everywhere!" h'-;;" : '::>'■■;-■'' ; VV, .;"'v,.«" ''.'Fairies,^?:calleditheir golden-voiced guide, " you ■ sed' I ''/have with me two earth mortals.". The .boy,".andihere she touched Tommy,-"does not believe we exist. What can "we do to prove that this is not so?" / ;. ;'•''■"' "I know," piped up a shrill voice. "Give Tiima golden shower)" ./' Splendid! '.! '. cried, C- 4 the ' fairies. "Come," bewildered: T_dmmy was lifted \upon;a; raised: platform of soft green, and immediately a shower of gold came, streaming down upon him. It. sang to Tommy as it fluttered past him,'-untn, with a little sigh-^f ecstasy, Tommy-slept... . '■■■■'_ ..;• \. .' - Betty, opened her eyes with a start. Why, • they were back on their own lawn, and the marigolds were nodding in glorious profusion. But Tommy! His hair was golden too, not ruffled, and brown as it, usually was, but golden— deep, deep gold. "What are you looking at? "demanded Tommy. "Your hair!"' gasped Betty. Tommy pulled a little tuft from his head. "Why," he cried, "it must have been the golden shower!?' And the dancing marigolds seemed to nod and bend, as if in answer. Tommy's mother never quite got over the shock of the sudden change in her son's hair, and Tommy and Betty never told her. And lam sure that all the golden-headed people you meet have also visited the fairies. EVA TESKET. (IS) City. V '■