STARRY EYES AND THE DOLL

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12016, 19 December 1924, Page 20

STARRY EYES AND THE DOLL

Little Starry Eyes gazed at the big stranger in wonder. She was a little Red Indian girl, and the stranger had come riding to- her father’s tent late "the previous night. She liked" the wav lie smiled at her, and lifted her up on his big black horse. The' stranger gave her, mother presents of coloured beads.. and her father tobacco and a splendid gun but he had "no present for the‘little Indian girl. So Starry Eyes' prept into her tent and prayed to her fetish,, which i* a lucky charm that: the. Indiana believe in. Starry Eyes’ fetish was a dried-up .leg-of a fox that'huhg from the walls of her tent. , ; . ‘’Mease, let the stranger faring me >a waxen baby of the kind 'the Engliin lOhildsen - love to nurse,” . * Whisperdd Btafry--Ev«r,- for 'she. had-" been told abqut -doUs by her mothers ' v;. I "By-and-by the stranger picked, up . the-fuys. .he fought; from ' tHe / father -of ’.Starry, Eyes, and /rode, away." Bfit before .he went he wrote something down in his little notebook. • You sec, he’d heard Starry" Eyis- ■ talking tq. lier' fetjsh. - . • -v . ■ ] ■: ‘Ancr.lvtfen he' reached the big towin' he bought the biggest- blue-eyed" gol-iden-haired dolly ha-could find,'-packfid it up in cotton wool, put it ip a boi,•and ,addressed it.to Starry Eyes; , Oh! When she opened it Bhe juit oouldn’t speak for joy. Wasn’t- it- lovtly? ; - ; '.jAft^ri.ttia.t."tlie, qtranger oaroe many tunes, but he never forgot little Starry ! Eyes again. ,