THE EASTER MOON

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 25

THE EASTER MOON

Pixie People: " - Did you enjoy the Easter holidays? The Weather Clerk does love ■giving us surprises, and what better surprise than four crystal-clear, sunny days! In your ramblings, up hill and down, did you meet that merry gipsy, Autumn, anywhere? Her caravan is yellow-gold, touched with berry-red, and somewhere , along a leafy way it is moving slowly nearer the Ring. Prepare for the Autumn Page now, Ring People. Stories, poems, and sketches, neivs, puzzles, and nature notes will all have a place in our welcome to Autumn. If.you look carefully around the Ring, you will find some very helpful hints oh scrapbook-making. Letterbox Elf found the drawing and Betty's letter, and he is sure that'you tvill all want to set to work with scissors and paste straight away. We've a drawer packed with lovely coloured pictures for decorating book-covers, so if you haven't a cover picture for your scrapbook, write to Letterbox Elf, or call at the Ring one visiting day and choose one. Hospital scrapbooks must be sent in during May, so ice haven't very much longer to make them. We hope there'll be a towering pile of t books to be judged for prizes. Still more sunshine wishes and love to you all from FAIRIEL

12 THINGS-TO REMEMBER. (By Marshall Field}. 1. The value of time. • 2. The success of perseverance. . 3. The pleasure of working. • 4. The dignity "of simplicity. 5. Tine worth of character. 6. The power of kindness 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economy. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating. RULES OF THE RING —_ » n ■ i..' Visiting fisur* to t»e Fairy Ring era 3 to «<3O o'clock on m ontfays. Wednesdays. and Fridays. 1. Address letters (c Falrlat, 'Fairy Rlnfc" "Evening Post" City, Cl. 2. Tell your ago, name, an* address, as well as your Den-name. ft. Always say whether your «ork it ordinal or copied, *. Do drawing on unllnta whit* o«i9er. to pencil or Indian title. ft. Leave a margin when writing stories or verses, and write in INK on one side ■>' th& paper only. . , 6 The Ring closes at 4 o'eioct <w Weanes days, so post earty In the weait. THINK TWICE —_—,—_♦■ i I.—-, PUZZLING RiDE. Mirth and Alan went for a ride and the names of some of the interesting things they saw are in the following sentences. Can- you find them? ■ ■ ■ , 1. The dog ate bis supper, then went; to sleep.2. Opportunities bar neither creed nor colour. 3. If there was no wind,, mills ran by water power. 4. Andre's," as he farmed but one acre, efeed out his income by doing odd jobs. 5. Though the razor had a- rough edge, lie shaved as well as- he could. 6. They 'looked itfce sparks, of ftre blowing across the fen, Cecelia thought. 7. to aioid the dutre, especially In dress, is essential1 to gbod /taste. S. What,lip!. use- Jtobin .good tactics? Never. 9. Fleaae" drdar picftles arid pate de foiff gras, Susan, and <fq> not forget crackers. 10. The hybrid gentian was neither trhie nor fringed. CAN YOU QUESS? Why are large rivers like trees? They have branches. What soldiers fight best in the dark? Light dragoons. Why may we assume that a student is very hungry ? Because he "devonurs" boolcs. . , Give the name of the people who first discovered the art of boxing? The Hittites. My Jlrst is'equality, my second is inferiority, my whole is superiority? Match-leaa. '. dpes a railway clerk, cut a bole fn your return ticket? To let you pass through. Why is the.,sun like a hard-working carpenter? Bfcrrase he's putting beams in all day. ' Why is an acquitted prisoner like a gun? Because1 he is charged, taken up, and then let off. Why, are some bird? melancholy in the morning? Because their little bllis are all overdue (dew). LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS. Saen In the Kitchen.—Plate, A PazrFe Koose.—Mortar, paint, wood, glass, lumber, brick/board, plank, plaster. WOODLAND MIRROR ♦ i Floating on the blue cove starred! with sunset Hlies, a wild swan studies her silver image.

Baby Billy, Fox had a birthday, and his mother said, "We will give you a treat because you have been nearly good for a whole week. When the night comes, and the moon is big and sails up over the trees round and t white, instead of going to bed you shall come with me over the fields." Baby Billy Fox was , very excited when he heard this, fox. he, had never been, out so late before, ; When tne night came they started off. ■-.'- ■• ■; :.;...,:; ;:\;v

"What is that big silver box over there?" asked Baby Billy Fox. "That is the roof of Farmer Denny's house, with the moonlight shining on it," his mother answered. . . "And what is that- little teeny roof. with, the moonlight shining on it?"" asked Baby Billy Fox. "Ah, ha!" said his mother; "that's a surprise; wait and see." When they got near the little teeny roof they saw that it was -part of a little teeny shed with a hole in it and a door; and the door was open. "Good!" said Baby Billy's mother. "There is someone very careless here who forgets to shut doors. That is why I,came. Now I am going through that hole to: take a big fat hen and bring it out through, the open door." "What Isa hen?" Baby Billy Fox asked. ' , "•.: "You wait here; you will see," his mother answered. But Baby Billy Fox didn. rt like waiting much:. The hens in the teeny house began making such a noise that h-ei wished his., mother■ would hurry up and come back- And then suddenly behind him he heard another noise, and, ,looking round, he saw someone coming towards him. , It was the farmer. Now, Baby Billy Fox. had never seen a man before, so he wondered what lie | could,b,e, and he barked out loud for his mother. But Baby Billy's mother had already heard the man's voice and she ran out of the hen-house door as fast as she. could, forgetting to bring a hen wiihv her, and fled into the shadow*, callfiig;' to Billy to follow. V : ■ Then tfee, man came up to Baby Billy Fox and, storing down, picked him up. : .-.> : "Come, my beauty!" be said. "You will, be a lovely plaything for my Billy." (For the farmer man had a Baby Billy Farmer Boy,) And that is how Baby Billy Fox went to live at the farm.