Children's Corner

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 28, 4 December 1930, Page 4

Children's Corner

DIMSEY AND BUNK

Dimsey, the Twilight Dancer, had lost one of her silver s>oes. She had searched all over Pixie Oommon for it; her friends were scouring even the mos.t unlikely places on the Purple Moor, and now she was peeping into jvery nook and corner of the Queens she riaid,"What.ever will <3ueen Sylvia say if I m not able to dance at her pint party to-night? JPor, of courae, a Twilight Dancer couldn't possibly, wear anything but silver shoes.1 ° JutT rthen she tripped over something that was\ sticking^ out from under a large rose-hush, it was a shoe—but not a silver one. In friet, it was rather a. shabbylooking, /«ites, eurly^>ed affair. - Arid there was a foot in it. - , The foot was drawnm quietly; there was a sleepy grunt and a, slight scuffle; and a dropsy-eyed pixie balne from under the bush. "Hullo I" said Dimsey, wonderingly. "Who are you? I don t remember seeing you before." "I'm Blink,'' said the little f el- . low, yawning. <^****# <*et back to the Enchanted Hill. I'm the Goblin Wife's errand-boy and I can't find the way back, "00-00-oh!" said Dimsey, for she had heard of the Enchanted Hill before. "What is the Goblin Wife like? Is she nice?" The Pixie nodded. "She is the wisest woman were is," he said. "But she doesnt stand any nonsense. And 1 stayed ?o play with the Silver Stream when I should have gone straight home. And now I'm lost." And he looked quite scared. -Poor BlinV' said Dimsey. "i' was sailing a silver boat, he went on. "Such a lovely boat I found!— Only it was a shoe really—a silver shoe." • « A silver shoe!" Dimsey almost screamed. "Oh Blhik! Wtere.is it? It's mine—l know it's mine! ' "Yours!" said Blink, looking f at the Fairy's feet, and seeing that she was wearing only one silver shoe. "Yes—it was aust like IhaV'he nodded. T^go^tm my jerkin-I was go-g to take it Motile with inc." And he handed it to her reluctantly. _ "It's not spoilt, and now I can dance at the pink party!'' said thankfully. "^^J ak grateful tp you! If_ onlyvl could help you, I would. Bui-how doe* one find, the way to the EnCl^# l^ Isald Blink "it's usually tie way that find you. You Ind youself in a W.«^ you know, and then yo^ just walk forward without seeing where you're going, then you feel Yourself climbing a hall, and— yoii^re there!" , "Ah<J it you're not good the mist doesn't come to you, I.supTjose."saidl>imsey. "Or perhaps Zldo you think this time that perhaps the Goblin Wife wanted you to stay to give me my shoe V "Yes," said Blink. "That will be it. But did you say you were going to a party? Where?" "Here in the Queen's garden, Bai^imsey. "This is^where she lives. Look!" And she pointed to where a lovely castle whitd m the- dusk. , ypu dance, Blink? I wish you could stay and dance to .the roses with y me! This is a special pink party for them, you know." " "I can dance like a butterfly, said Blink, eagerly. "Shall I show y°" Let's dance together," said] Dimsey. "The twilight is very dim now, and it's -quite time I woke everything up^" *Hand in hand, with arms out* stretched, the Fairy and the Pijie B tood poised upon their toes for a moment and then were off, Whirling, leaping, flyhig, till they looked like two silvery-grey^ butterflies dancing in the shadowy garden. Bound the lawn they

went, waving to all the fiowens, from the tallest stately lilies to the gay little violas and pansies sitting humbly upon the brown earth.

' And at last, when everything else had ben wakened, they paused in front of the very rose-bush where Blink had been sleeping. jjThey-danced to it and bowed to it and gradually its fragrant lovely blossoms quivered and awoke. Then one large rose on the very tip-top of the bush spread its petal^ wider and wider, till its golden heart was Md bare. Suddenly, the whole garden was alive! All the flowers became! fairies; all the little, shrubs wera goblins, while hundreds of the we€> folk—gnomes and elves and sjprites^—flocked into the garden from Pixie Common and the Purple Moor. ';.-,,, ;■■;■ Then the fairy fiddles struck up with flutes and whistles and drums Lights sprang i»to the windows of the castle, and the ; Queen*. hersej^ smiling and radiant in a- rose-petal gown* \ appeared in its open doori way. . ." . . { All her subjects shouted and ' cheered till even the fairy music ;^was silenced-.for.-a moment. 'But 1 it.soon struck up again more gaily than ever, and, with a swish of her pink fluffy skirts, Queen Sylvia flew joyously down the terivrace steps and began to lead thedance. Everybody joined in— 'and Dimsey and Blirik were a won tier too behold. ~ Pie revels lasted till morning, when the dew began to fall—and the mists to "rise; Then somehow Blink disappeared. But Dimsey was not surprised at that, for sht i knew he had gone back to th* ! Enchanted Hill.