A STORY FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3562, 29 June 1912, Page 4

A STORY FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS

THE LITTLE RED BOOK.

The Roaring Lion was a very bold and dashing person, and he used to roar with his mouth and dash with his tail so much, that all the other animals did not know whatever to do. And the Roaring Lion made a rule that every animal that he met should bow down very low with his head, and he said that if they didn’t he would eat them all up until there- weren’t any of them left. So the Great Elephant and the Tiger and the Bear and all the other animals were very frightened, and they all used to bow down very low whenever the Roaring Lion happened to pass. But the Brown Fox-was very clever, and he told everybody that he wasn’t going to bow down to anybody. And all the other animals looked very surprised, but the Brown Fox didn’t mind a bit. And he always carried about with him a very funny looking little red book. And one day, right out in tlie middle of the woods, he met the Roaring Lion, and he put his head far up in the air, and he didn’t bow down at all! Then the Roaring Lion looked very surprised, and he got ready very quickly to eat tip the Brown Fox. But the Brown Fox was very clever, and he opened his little red book and he read out a lot of funny sounding words. For the little red book was a lesson book on Magic, and the Brown Fox had been learning very carefully how to give people very bad colds so that they would sneeze and sneeze for days and days. So that directly the Brown Fox had said those funny sounding words the Roaring Lion began to have a vertbad cola, and he began to sneeze so dreadfully that he went straight back to his house and put himself to led. and he sneezed and .sneezed for days and days and days. And presently he got out of bed and he shook hands with the Great Elephant and the Tiger and the Brown Fox and all the other animals, and he said that he was very sorry and that lie didn’t ever want to try to eat anybody again, because it- gave him such a dreadful cold. And he told them that they needn’t bow down to him any more. And the Brown Fox laughd to bimtfolf and went on learning the magic.