THE RED PATCH

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1933, Page 7

THE RED PATCH

(Original.) Many years ago there lived in a lonely cottage oh the border of a large forest a chubby rosy-cheeked little boy, whose name was Peter. His parents were poor country people, who had found Peter, when a baby, in the forest. Little did Peter know he was really a prince. When Peter was asleep in his soft, white cot, two mischievous brownies came flying in at the open window, holding in their wee dimpled hands a beautiful . pair of navy blue pants, with a brilliant red patch on them. Moonshine and' Tinker Toes, the two. brownies, laid them by Peter's bedside, thinking he would put them on in the morning. The next morning Peter awoke on the stroke of six, and jumped with, surprise at the sight of the pants; which lay near his bed. He quickly put them On and ran outside with his new rubber ball. But as soon as he stepped on the lawn, he was carried up into the blue sky, where the brownies met him, and carried him far away over the stormtossed sea. ' •'.•■■ Peter's mother and father came running out shouting to him, but all their shouts were : in vain. The two.brownies1 took him toa great king's castle. The king was really Peter's father. When' he saw his son he wept with joy, and, holding Peter in his arms, he told how Peter had been kidnapped when a baby. It was the red patch which had done its magic. "UGLY DUCKLING" (10). Seatou'n.