PIXIE PEOPLE:

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 129, 3 June 1933, Page 20

PIXIE PEOPLE:

i: Now once and again the trees are preparing for sleep* Their :; green summer dresses, their autumn g&wns^of-glory,are shaken ■_, ') ..'"; off and folded away from the clowning of winter winds. The ' ; •'<■■■ new, delicate frocks that adorn them in the Spring -these will ' !; be made while they rest ... (1 think by the forest fairies) ...« ■ ,' and tightly packed into a million wee'trunks, that only Spring \ ; can unlock with the touch of her warm, sweet hands. .• • -', •■ •:•■; Now the skies cloak their majesty in gold and in scarlet each *; ' ! clear dawn, or draw tender veils of silver-grey over the shivering ; '; \ land. And the hills march forward after rain, and the little > I valleys etch sharp green lines down the hollows in their sides. ', '. . . .Now. once and again King Winter is coming into his own. ] > This is a warning to Lady Autumn that her reign is nearly ■', ' done. For the month of the Shortest Day is come— — Winter's own ; ', kingdom and Autumn must give way to him in the Fairy.Ring. < ', Prepare his welcome, Pixie People, with all the magic at your ! t command; for we'll greet him-here at the end of the month. ' ' Next week I'll sit still on my mushroom and let Pollyanna [ ' and Lassie have a word with you instead ... for, if you remem- ; ! her, they have a Secret-to-tell ... something to do with Scrap- ] books and the Birthday Page. How are your patiences? Can ', they wait till then? < • . ' ! i With all the fairy love 1 can muster, to divide amongst so ; many of you. ... . FAIRIEL