SHUT EYE AND PEEPER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 11 August 1928, Page 18

SHUT EYE AND PEEPER.

The story of two xery different little girls). t-lint-eye and Peeper were two little oir! friends which was tunny, because the. both 'had a great- fault, and each] fault was entirely different from the other. Shut-eye was unobservant and sleep., and Peeper was rather inclined to prv into pla es not meant for her lit t.e ' e.es. That is the reason each • a * her peculiar name. 1 Now one day they were both sitting in the garden and they had each found a four-lea ed cloier. Of course you kiiow l'.ni r-leafed clovers are extremely Ick don’t you? Well, these two were awfully lucky. Fearfully magic! And so when Shut-eye. yawned and said: ha.e a jolly good sleep the whole afternoon!’ There was a quaint little elm kle from the grass and she went to sleep. And at the \ery moment she was saying that keeper was saying: “Oh dear, 1 do wish 1 could see what is at the bn-: k of that cloud!” Her wish came true also. Shut-eye was lilted gentl.v oh the ground by invisible hands and placed in a hammock of spider weh, and a little black gnome stood there to look after her ami keep hies, wasps and gnats from worrying her,' while Peeper sound herself .flying into the air. .She had her Golly in one hand, and on the other she found a teen.-weeny, little white gnome. “Well. ’ said he. “You brought it on %-ouiself; lut i don’t envy you! “\\liat do you mean?” asked Peeper.

“Tins journey,” said (lie gnome. “There is a risk!” lf | don’t mind,” said I eeper, 1 !o e seeing things!” “You II see them all right,” said tingnome, and in a l-wink he had disappeared . Then Peeper found herself in the most peculiar place. There were houses and fences and trees, but the.' were all made of soft white stun, insi li c cotton-wool; and when she walked

along the road it was like walking on a leather bed strung up in mid-air. Ann

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that was \e ry difficult. However, she kept on until she came to a front lour; but when she tried to rap at it .\il.h her knuckles, her hand went right dirouj.li, and a white flabby face poke.; nut of the hole and looked at her angrily. ••Go away,” said the owner of the fn e. “How dare you poke my house to pic es?’’ “.’in sorry,” said Pcepei, “I meant no harm, (ian 1 come in and sec what ino inside ol yom house is like?” “certainly not! ’ replied the white looking creature, which was rather like a gnome, and rather like a lamb. .Peeper oou!d not. think which it was most i <-. hut she had always been so .'.eepin j and she did so want to see the inside that she walked away and then went to the window. ‘•I will have jvrst 'one little peep in here!” she remarked to henseli, and poked her head in. But no sooner had she done that than she felt herseli pushed from the back, anil she went Head lon j; through the hole and tell through";]!! t<> nothing and down, down, she went! Luckily -for hei. She fell hang on to Shut-eye, who was still in tn - spi or web hammock asleep. The a nip waked her, and they both fell mn of the hammock on to the grass. • -Where did you come iron.?” asked Slice- ye. “I have had a lovely sleep, and no dreams at all!”

Then Peeper told her about her dreadful adventures, and they horn knew it was true 1 ecau.se the hammock was still there, a bit torn, it is true. An I the funniest thing about it was that it altered them both a little hit. Leeavsc Peeper was rather frightened at the > nmi v adventure she had had, she made up her mind to be less curious. A*d Sliut-eye was so sorry to have missed such a nice adventure that she re so’veil to try and keep more wide awake in the future, and so between them thev managed things very well, and e en forgot all about their adventure when they grew up. Strange, isn’f it.? (The end).