Story for Tiny Tots.

Matamata Record, Volume XVI, Issue 1447, 3 August 1933, Page 3

Story for Tiny Tots.

TINY TOTS TALE. Kitty loved skipping in the park and feeding the ducks. So while Nanny sat on a seat not far from the pond Kitty skipped down to the water.

She watched the ducks gobbling up the bread and standing on their

heads and preening their feathers,

And after a time a little girl in blue, who had been sitting with her nurse on the seat next to Nanny’s, came and watched Kitty enviously. “ Would you like to give them some?” Kitty asked her. And the little girl smiled shyly as Kitty emptied the last crumbs into her hand. But she seemed very pleased. Kitty ran back to tell Nanny about the ducks; but as she got near the seat she remembered her skippingrope. What had she done with it? She couldn’t remember!

The little girl’s nurse had moved on to Nanny’s seat and was talking to her. Kitty came up slowly, then she saw the skipping-rope lying on the seat! She noticed its handles with red bands. She picked it up and went skipping down the path as fast as she could. She heard a little jingle coming from both her hands, and she saw that there was a little bell on each of the handles.

“How funny!” thought Kitty. “I’ve lost the bell on one of mine I Somebody must have found it and put it on. How lovely! Perhaps it was the fairies, so she skipped back to Nanny. At that moment the little girl in blue came up, and her nurse said: “Where’s your skipping-rope, Fay?” Fay looked surprised. “ I don’t know! I must have lost it,” she said. “ Oh, nonsense! You must have left it by the pond,” said the nurse. “ Run and fetch it; it’s time to go home.”

The little girl ran back to the pond, and -Kitty soon saw her pick up a skipping-rope and skip back to them. But halfway she stopped; and she called out: “This isn’t,.my rope, Nanny! Look, it only has one bell; mine had two!” “ Oh!” exclaimed Kitty. “Is this yours ? It was on the seat. I thought it was mine and that someone had put a new bell on. It’s exactly like mine.” So the two skipping-ropes were exchanged, and Fay smiled happily again. The two little girls skipped home together, chattering about the two skipping-ropes that were just alike.

A NEW BUD AND LEAVES. - This week we have another “ Bud” on our Tree; it is Ray Hogg. He has been very helpful, always sending riddles or other items for the Column. Two new leaves have also appeared. June Anderson and Joan Bartleet. I hope they will soon become “ Buds.”—Jill.