THE MAGIC BALLOONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1939, Page 15

THE MAGIC BALLOONS

One day Jane, Michael, John, Barbara, and Annabel Banks were walking along ; the Park Road with _, their nurse, Mary Poppins. Now Mary Pop-? pins had suddenly appeared out of the | blue sky and nobody knew how she would go- away again. At last they all.turned into the gates- of the park. There they saw an old lady selling balloons. "Would you like some balloons, my dears?" she said in her soft, silvery voice. Opening her purse, Mary Poppins brought out a shining silver halfcrown. "Yes,: please,"-she said. The |old lady put the money in her pocket and patted it gently with her hand. "Take your choice, my dears," she said. Jane put in her hand and brought out a blue. balloon with pink marks. Michael had a red balloon, with white. John and Barbara had a blue balloon between them, because they were twins. Mary Poppiris had a red balloon with gold. A strange thing about these balloons

was that they all had people's names on them and they, pulled you up into the air immediately they were blown up. '.-;-■' • ': Up and up.they floated. The parkkeeper came bustling on a balloon marked P. Smith. "Don't crowd the park," he called, .for a great many people had bought ballons, and were floating gaily along in the air. "I don't think it would have happened ■>. if you had not been here, Mary Poppins," said Jane. "We think you are a wonder!" From "Tuesday Fairy." City.