JANET AND THE FAIRIES

Northern Advocate, 29 December 1934, Page 15

JANET AND THE FAIRIES

(Sent in by Katie Erceg, Aponga, Pipiwai R.D., Whangarei). Janet was in the garden one morning. “And they lived happily ever after! she murmured. Janet had been reading a fairy tale, and she had just finished it, but she was still dwelling on its contents. Lazily she glanced up into the branches of a tree above her, and, with a little cry, she sprang from her deckchair and looked with wide eyes at the lowest branch. There sat a little man, who was sobbing as if his heart would break. He was dressed from head to foot in green. “Why are you crying?” she said gently. The little man was not a bit surprised, but answered, with little sobs in between: —

“Our fairy queen has been kidnapped by the bad fairy Nunbo, and she has taken the power of our wings away so that we cannot fly. It is too far to walk with our legs]” "You poor little things!” cried Janet. “I will do what I can for you. Where docs Nunbo Jive?” The little man at once dried his tears and directed her to a cave where Nunbo lived, and Janet started at once. When she got inside the cave Nunbo was very much frightened, and said she would give the fairy queen and the power of the fairies’ wings back, if Janet would not touch her, for a human being’s touch on a bad fairy, turns the fairy into a frog. Janet promised, so the fairy queen was returned to the fairies and her delighted husband, and the fairies, were able to fly again. Janet was thhnked again and again by the fairies.