TILLY AND THE ACORNS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 20

TILLY AND THE ACORNS

(Original.) . The Fairy Queen stopped and listened. Yes, she could hear two fairy voices' squabbling, and squabbling was not allowed in Fairyland. She saw two fairies, Tweed and Tilly, both very furious, and up above a large oak was shedding large tears. The fairies hung their heads when- they saw the Queen, but Tweed soon explained. '-You see," she began, "Tilly and I are going to hold a party, and Tilly said we should use these modern cups and saucers, but I want to use acorns, as my ancestors and every other fairy's ancestors have done." . "But," burst in Tilly, "everyone is using modern cups now, and they'll think we are too mean to buy them, as Mr. Csk can give them to us for nothing. Not that we don't love Oakie any more, 'cause we do." Mr. Oak dried his eyes, and the Queen said, "In a week's time I shall tell you which to use." Tilly and Tweed nodded and flew off, and peace was restored. But that night, as Tilly was walking in the forest, a horrid old wizard swooped: down and flew away, with her. The oak trees were powerless to help, and silently, like a great black bat, the wizard sped away. When he reached his castle, which stood behind numerous trees, he flew up several flights of steps and thrust her in a dusty room. "There is a certain way of getting out of that room," he croaked, and with a chuckle he disappeared. Looking all around, Tilly saw everything was covered in dust, and, feeling very tiredj she at once took off her dress and tried to dust the bed, but, the dust would not come off. "Oh, dear," she moaned, and instantly the dust flew on even more thickly. "But I'll not give up," she continued,; and in a second all the dust vanished and she lay down and fell asleep. Next morning she tried the strong bars of the windows, and every timeshe gave up courage the bars grew; strong, but at last the bars fell away. Soon she was over the walls, and there: she found all the pixies of Fairyland just come to get her.1 Just then the. wizard flew over the wall after her. "I change you in " he got no further. All the oak trees were pelting him' with acorns till he cried for mercy. Then they all returned to Fairyland, and you can guess what they used for the grand party—acorn cups. "MISCHIEVOUS" (12). City.