THE SURPRISE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 February 1926, Page 16

THE SURPRISE.

Daisy felt ever so curious to know what she was going to have for a present on her eighth birthday. This time nobody had asked her what she would like, and yet m/steri,ous parcels kept arriving, and Nannie said she couldn’t go into the little room in the tower where boxes were leapt, because the door was locked. Mother went into it a great deal, and so did Daddy, and whenever he went he carried a hammer, and made a great deal of noise. Then when her birthday came, and she-went down to breakfast , there was the daisy-crown for the queen of the day on the breakfast table as usual, but there were no parcels at all! it was certainly very strange. And Daisy was very glad \vhen_the meal was over, and Daddy said, ''Now come and look at your present, birthgirl,” and holed the way iipstairs. He opened the door, and Daisy cried, “Oh!” for the old boxes ha<j been moved and the walls were covered with a paper patterned all over with daisies. There was a green carpet on the floor, with a border of white daisies all round it, and the green curtains had a daisy border, too; and so had the coverlet on the dear little whitp bed. The furniture was green, with sweet little wreaths of pink-tipped daisies painted on it; and there was a bookcase linear the bed filled with Daisy’s favourite books. On the window-sill stood a green china bowl filled with big white daisies. “Oh. Mummy,” cried Daisy, “whose room is it?” “It’s yours,” said Mother. “You are too big to sleep in the night nursery any longer. Do you like it?” “I love it,” cried Daisy. “But it is too pretty to call a bedroom. I shall call it my Indoor Daisy Garden.”