I By TABITHA, Thomasine, Tilda. T. Tite s Once looked for a fairy by candle light. ) She looked in the cupboard, and under the stair, 'An’ out in the garden and everywhere. » Though she walked all around with never a sound, ■ ¥5-7 / / Not one of the merry wee things could be found. / X" \ .Which wasn’t much fun, > // / \ When all’s said anH done— , xz vL-Z Though Tabitha said that she didn’t much mind Z it— / But, ’tween you and me, I And the others at school I think we’ll agree would just love it, I . ’I ) IF you look for a thing, it is nicer to find it 1 know mEL If I should turn up with / a fairy in tow! C 7xo s u \ x. J An’ think of the fuss,- ( X, There’d be on the ’bus; Why I No one would know ■ Course, 1/ I could find one,” said Tabitha T., \\\ whai to charge for the ‘ How very exceedingly nice it would be— 1 \ H fare. Yes, IF I should find one,” our Tabitha said, I ■ I’d certainly take him home into my bed, And Nurse would be ter- I haven’t a notion 'TS Jv ./ ribly tickled to see Of all the commotion \ * * ' x -A fairy to bathe in the. There’d be in the park, V//*"’ 7 _ morning with me I when we both took the And wl)at would Cook air . \ say when at breakfast I Yes—lF I could find one,” \ beg said Tabitha T., \ An ’xtra hot plate and “ How very exceedingly i 77 ) more bacon and egg? nice it would be.’’
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)
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264Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)
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