NOBBY'S LUCKY FIND.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 26, 20 November 1930, Page 4

NOBBY'S LUCKY FIND.

Nobby tlie Gnome had lost his lucky silver sixpence He woke up one day and it wajr.\ hanging round his neck aw/ longer. So Nobby just sa^ down and cried, for he didV? r£n6w what else to do.

By-an^-L,," ilong came Woolly the Sqir/re' He hopped here and jumpr*i +v^re, but when he saw that Kobby the Gnome was crying he stood still. "Why, Nobby" Tie *aid, "whatever is the matter?' 'I've lost my lucky silver sixp'ace," sobbed Nobby; "I hung H round my neck, and now it's gotie!" '"•■' "Well, well, well," said Woolly the^quirrel. '' Perhaps you dropped it in the fairy ring last night. I will go and look." And off he bustled, for he was a very fussy squirrel. " • "Oh, dear! Oli, dear! sighed Nobby. ' 'Whatever shall Ido Avi^iout it?" And he hunched

himself up closer, and cried again. ' By-and-by along came Sniff and Snuff, the bob-tailed rabbits. They nibbled here, and they rabbled there, but when they saw Nobby the Gnome sitting crying, they sat up on their.hinders and looked most astonished.

"Why, my goodness! Bless my lovely whiskers!" said Sniff and Snuff—for they always spoke to^ gether. '' Wliat 's the matter with you tp-day?"

"I've lost my Ixfccky sil —silver sixpence,'* sobbed Nobby the Gnome. "I hung it round by neck, and-now it' 6 g—gone I' But Woolly the Squirrel has gone to look for it," he added, brightening a little. .., '

"We'll find it for you!"'said Sniff and Snuff, "I suspect you dropped it in the grass in the meadow yesterday.'> 'And they lopped off to look for it, for they were very kind bunnies. c

Nobby sniffed when they had gone. He just sat and sniffed, because he didn't know what else to do.

By-and-by along came some Chicks. They had only just been born that morning, so they were very happy. '' Tweet, tweet!,' '■ they said. "We've just come out of our eggs! "Why, here's a fairy, and he's crying! Why are you crying, little fairy? " they said. Nobby the Gnome looked at them very sadly. ■•■'l've lost my lucky silver sixpence," he said. "I hung it round my neck, and now it's gone. But Woolly,Bquirrel and Sniff and Snuff the Bunnies are all looking for it!' *

"Let's all go and look for it too. It's sonie^ltere about," cried the little Chicks. And 6M they ran.

But still Nobby the Qnpme did not get up. He felt so sad. Just then in ?an Nibby and Sporty and Jimpy and Junjp, the other Gnomes, and they rn^de such a noise and bustle, and ran and jumped and laughed and shouted, till poor Nobby's head ached. "Oh, I wish you wouldn't make so much noise!" he said. " I 'ye lost my lucky silver sixpence. I hung it round my neck, and now it's gone!"

Of course, when they heard all that the Gnomes stopped playing, and crowded round Nobby, and asker "Where did you lose it? When did you lose it? Why did you lose it ?". Anii lots of other useless questions like that. For they were rather thoughtless Gnomes.

"How do I know?" said Nobby. "But Woolly the Sqtiirrel, and Sniff and Snuff the Rabbits, and the Baby Chicks, are all looking for it!" he said, proudly. . "Why don't you look for it yourself?" asked Jump. And Nobby couldn't say, because he hadn't thought of that.

"That's a good idea!" he .said, and got up.

*' Why here it is!" shouted all the Gnomes together. And they picked up the lucky silver sixpence and hung it round Nobby's neck. .

And where do you think they had found it? He'd been sitting on it all the time!