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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1940, Page 19

The Apple Blossom Fairy » ' ■ - ■ . ... (A Story for Little Folk by Pat Dobson, 16, Dannevirke.) [.'.'. "IyfOTHER could be very firm when in the rose-pink and delicate white, her clothes about on the flower, and x bedtime came," thought Anne frilly frock. isn't rude to her old friends. (Here a gloomily as she dragged herself un- "Now the fairy was very grateful to faint pink flush appeared on Anne's willingly up the stairs. She glared the apple tree, so she decided to make cheeks.) It seems to^ me as "if that angrily at the grandfather clock on the her home in his branches and 'keep fairy will live all her life in that landing. • house' for him, apple tree." "Bother you. Why did you have to "So every day the fairy gets up Anne settled down into her pillow strike seven when you knew that Nan bright and early, sweeps out her only sleepily. "Thank you, Nan deaf, I wasn't home! You are mean, Grandy!" ' • But the old clock only seemed to '"'/ smirk all over his' bland white face 14-»— —ti ' " - '"" ■' "■ '"——•*'*• and said: "Tick tock, tick tock; serves W( C^\ LT you right, tick tock!" VxVi /s<^ rl It was a very bad-tempered Anne jt^iffT)/ II ■■'"■"..'.. who undressed and had her bath, (^vMiC/ // splashing the water all about the bath- l^J^An^ Al room, and even left the soap in the I ZrS £W~2-« t water. And tile times Mother had Y\ /Mftt*J NJT) \/ '■■ warned her about thatl She threw her \\ f r^"7^cLy Pi^X clothes everywhere about her little \\ |^ Jirist^ulf *^ pink and white bedroom! \lh^H^°*J^Cs» ' f Now the man in the moon was generally an extra-special friend of Anne's, C^^Cn. m v /^"j" J~^\ but tonight she was not feeling par- Ws\\ _« //y^^y ticularly well disposed towards him. \\^v \\ ' \\ ir^^j^^ She stuck her head out of the win- \ \ n/^. * ss^ dow and made a face at him as he \ /' /^$VL rZ//vr f>* sailed serenely on a cream-coloured V«^SnvJ* sxV if ( t/j\ s Si cloud above the dusky pines. The y ••«^<^Swi PM^lr Amoon hid his face in shame. Such a y*-**.t f^J?^V?&^—f^-~ *~">"*'""7 A few seconds later, when Nan was N^T^^">^/P //^Z^^Lil "^^^^w ' coming upstairs to say good-night to 7.- ffy^cT* 2"^^ll ' * ' her small sister, she paused on the x^^./'-r f* i^C^^^***-^**--landing. Someone was talking" in s/^ * / /(Vs^V^^^^l^ *"*■"- "And I won't even say good-night to / vtip^ —--^^S^***^^ you tonight, Mr. Moon. I just won't. / >ff\l \ I wish Nan would come home. Why / /il'lV does she have to stay out when she / / \\ >v s *w«»-^^ knows I want her!" / f/^ I \\ >\v Nan opened the door sharply. "Anne I /^r \ \ \ SN V Lane! Why aren't you in bed? It's I /S \ \ well past seven." • \yf \\ V . Anne jumped and whizzed round in V \ V ' *—^^~—^l7*^ -;: Srs fright, her eyes two wide, startled, I \ V ***^~^ _/^> iiL_ J "O-oh! Nan, you gave me such a Jf> \ J y fright. I thought it was Nurse!" A^\ v /'"""^ J V "You may well be scared, Miss Anne. xj^^^ Zi r\ \\ O^^^v/ /J~yc^ Now, hop into bed at once, and if y^v *** \\ 1^ ?M# ]L ■ you're good I'll tell you all about the VI *— <^ Ai // • Apple Blossom Fairy." T>^3 hs JL r*rr f Anne sprang into bed and Nan drew N^ t^^K \[ jSggs^-^a^sX^-C.^v the bedclothes about her, tucking the *^k K^CA \^f /v^^^^TCA ! little girl securely in. Then she NX^^ Jff a \\\ >-7?'x:^\l? l'i^*?6^S ' cui^led herself up on the rose-coloured /aSA / &-4m W ff V±\& {\j^\ T ■ eiderdown, her beautiful, clever hands ig»H^^sS> l"A \\ "r^^f^~"^ j» clasped about her silken knees. >.X. J K*s>v>''~~'^' "Well," she began, "one spring night WA \^^.( -PQ/sS 1 «y * 0" it rained very heavily, and when the \^-** r^y^^J jr****** huge drops came hurtling down from '■' ■ ' ■ " ' A, TTli . „ n . ' ' ', _ ** the grey sky. all the 'little people' and _~ , ~ , . ~ T j• * ■■ .■ t „ 'unjr>~ all the feathered folk scurried for The apple blossom fairy would make a dainty painting for a ctiuas shelter. When the old apple tree in calendar as she sends a Christmas tvish floating on the breeze. Petal the orchard awoke next morning he pi ' n £ i or j ier y roc £ an^ summer hlue for the sky behind her. If it v a very good vaintinz you may want*!™,*. he saw, to his intense amazement, a . . very bedraggled, small fairy, seated little room, and then dusts all the loved your stopr. And I won't be wearily on a twig, vainly trying to green leaves, polishes the tiny buds, naughty any m.sre." smooth down her ruffled frock. Now and when spring comes arbund she Nan kissed ncr little sister goodthe old apple tree was very kind- washes the flower-faces and sees that night and snapped. out the lamp. As hearted, and he never liked to see a all the blossoms behave themselves. soon as the door closed behind her, fairy in distress. When he inquired "Everybody knows her. The birds Anne hopped out of bed and' began what the matter was, he was told be- come to her with their troubles, the gathering her clothes, up from the tween gasping sobs that she had lost wind whispers his secrets to her, and floor. Then she skipped to the wisher way in the storm, and that her best tells her of the distant lands he has dow and smiled, at the moon. _ dress was completely spoilt. visited. Spring, Summer, Autumn, "'Cuse me,"' she ..announced, airily, "As I said," continued Nan, "the old and Winter are all intimate friends of "but I didn't mean to be .rude.' Then tree was very good-natured, so he of- hers. Believe me, Anne, the old apple she kissed her hand to him. _ fered to give the fairy one of his bios- tree blesses that Spring night when Then she jumped back into her bed soms for a frock. And she did look the little fairy first came. She is such and the moon shone brightly one» extremely smart when she was dressed a tidy person, too. She never leaves more.