WHY THE BUTTERCUP IS GOLD

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 140, 15 June 1935, Page 20

WHY THE BUTTERCUP IS GOLD

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Once upon a time there lived a little elf called Pipkin. He polished the Queen's silver and gold cups, her plates and her saucers. One day he decided to make a new polish so that everyone would think him clever and come and see him. He went to the meadow and gathered a toadstool. He broke it and put it in a pot. He then went to the witch, who gave him a box of magic. He threw some in a tiny acorn cup which had dew in it. He threw the dew into the pot with the pieces of toadstool and stirred it up, singing, "Magic, magic, make for me polish, golden as can be." When it was ready ne polished the plates, and everybody wanted to buy them. The King was pleased, and gave him money so that Pipkin could make more. One day there was to be a ball, and Pipkin polished the floor,, but although it polished brightly it was dreadfully slippery, and the King fell on to the floor, the Princess broke her leg, and the King was dreadfully angry. He banished poor Pipkin from the kingdom, and as Pipkin had nothing to. polish he polished the flowers called buttercups a lovely yellow. Now, the next day the King was walking in the field, and when he saw the lovely flowers he wished they grew in his garden. A little white rabbit told the King that Pipkin had polished them. The King said that Pipkin could be his gardener, and that he could polish his flowers, so Pipkin is happy now. "MISCHIEVOUS" (9). City.