MILLY FORGETS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19215, 2 January 1926, Page 4 (Supplement)

MILLY FORGETS.

Milly had a very bad memory. ",I don't' believo you listen," her school teacher would say, when Milly forgot something which sho had been told only just before. And Milly would say .sho had listened, and that she remembered quito well now she was reminded of it.

The fact was Milly didn't listen properly. Her thoughts were far away, full of something else. Sometimes she was making up little rhymes; sometimes dreaming about tho elves and pixies in her fairy book. Such tilings wero much more interesting than the everyday things people told you to do. Mother understood. She told Milly that she" hoped sho would go on thinking and imagining because, if she did, perhaps one day she would be able to write stories and verses of her own.

" But," said mother, " it doesn't do to dream all tho time. Yvhat a funny world it would be if nobody listened to what was said to them! Suppose cook forgot the dinner, and daddy forgot to go to work. What an upside-down world it would be! "

Milly was thinking about that one morning when sho suddenly remembered ihat she was on the way to the shops to fetch something for mother. Something for mother! Milty's heart gave a bound. What was it mother had asked her to bny for her " She gazed in the shop windows miserably, hoping she would see something that would remind her of what she had come to buy. But sho didn't. Mother wasn't at all angry when Milly came back empty-handed. Sho said she thought Milly would remember the next time. And she was quite right, for what Milly had forgotten was the lovely new frock that tho dressmaker was to have had ready for her that morning. And, as there' wasn't time to go out again, Milly had to wear an old frock at a very special party that afternoon!