THE POT OF GOLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE POT OF GOLD.

Dick said that if lie could have a wish granted he would wish for a motor-car of his own, and drive it himself. "And I would wish for a black horse named Flyaway," said Molly. "I'd ride away all by myself over the downs, and have a lovely time." ''And I'd have, a house as big as the King's!" cried Billy. "What would you wish for, Anne?" Anno was the dreamy one of tho family, and it took her quite a long time to think of the.fairv-wish she would choose; but at. last she said, "I would wish I could find a pot of gold." Then Cousin Hilda, who was listening, said, "Well, I'm not everybody's fairy godmother, so I can't give Dick a motorcar, Molly a black horse, or Billy a house as big as the King's; but as I happon to be Anne's godmother I can grant her wish. That made our dreamy one look up. It, sounded so very exciting. Billy thought it too exciting to bo true, and said, in a scoffing way: "Cousin Hilda is only having a joke." But Cousin Hilda took no notico of him. "If Anno is very good for a whole week," sho said, "and gets all her sums right, and doesn't have a singld bad mark, and goes to bed when she's told, and learns how to mend that hole in her stocking, she can go into the pardon at nine o'clock next Saturday morning, and search until she finds a pot, of gold. ,f Oh, Cousin Hilda —that's my birthday, and I will bo good!" cried Anno; and so she was—as good as gold. Sho did her sums without a mistake, all tho marks sho gained at school were good ones, and sho darned her stocking beautifully, and jumped up and went to bed as soon as tho clock struck seven. Thci at nine o'clock on tho next Saturday morning sho ran into tho garden and searched, and searched until what, do you think sho found ? A pot of daffodils hidden under tho hedge!