THE STORY OF TINY, TINIER. AND TINIEST.
There were once three vases named Tiny, Tinier, and Tiniest. They lived in China, and they were being packed to be sent to London. Tiny and her sisters were very sorry to leave their kind friends in China, and Tinier grumbled and said that the journey would spoil her complexion. The three sisters were very sad. At last the day arrived for them to be sent away. Tinier said she would rather be thrown into the sea than be packed in a stuffy box. In a few weeks the three sister vases found themselves in one of the shops of London. There, was bright gas light in the room. There were a good many customers in the shop, and as the shopman placed them in the window his ear caught ' the sound of his customers' saying, "What beauties"! They did look pretty to little Lady Lucy as she sat by her mother in a large handsome carriage.
"Oh, mamma," she cried, "what dear little beauties they are ! Do buy them for me." "Do you like them," said the^Countess of Laene. " Oh yes," cried Lucy. "If you like you can tell the coachman to stop," replied her mother.
The coachman stopped while Lucy and her mother stepped out and entered the shop.
" What is the price of those vases," said the countess ; " please, will you show them to me."
" The shopman handed them over, and Lucy and her mother, after looking at them, paid the price asked, and left the shop, and re-entering the carriage drove back to the hotel at which they were staying. The next day was a busy one for Lucy as she was going home. They packed her vases in a small carpet hand-bag by themselves. She was soon seated in the swift train with her hand-bag in her hand. The train at length arrived at Laene. She reached home at last. Everybody admired her vases. Every day she filled them full .of the choicest flowers ; but one morning when she went to fill them she found out that the maid, while dusting them, had broken Tinier: She kept Timer's two sister's until she grew up and was married, and her little daughters always filled them with fresh flowers. Millie Saundebs. Otautau.,
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Otago Witness, Issue 1854, 3 June 1887, Page 35
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382THE STORY OF TINY, TINIER. AND TINIEST. Otago Witness, Issue 1854, 3 June 1887, Page 35
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