SAVING KINDNESS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1931, Page 21 (Supplement)

SAVING KINDNESS.

Do you know that all the. year round tlie fairies save up for Christmas, just as you do. Well, they do, but not pennies, because they have no need for money! You’ll never guess what it is that they save, so I’ll tell you. Just inside the gates of fairyland is the fairies’ savings bank, and every time a fairy returns to fairyland from dojn" her day’s work in our world she goes°to Goblin Goodfellow, who looks after the bank, and tells him all she has done during the day. Then the goblin opens his books and writes down just how many kind things she has done. Then, when Christmas comes, each fairy has a present just as big as the kind things which the goblin has written in his books. Now, there was only one fairy named Fernella, who was really rather lazy, for she would much rather swing in her cobweb hartmock than work. When Christmas came, along went Fernella with all the rest to see Goblin Goodfellow. “What name?” he asked. “Fernella, please, sir,’ ’said Fernella, timidly. , , , The "oblin hunted through book.after book, and at last he shook his head. “I’m very sorry,” he said sadly, ‘your name is not written- in any of my books.” .. . ~ , Poor Fernella! She was sorry that she had been so lazy, for, of course, there was no Christmas present for her! •\, . .. Just theu along came dairy McU-

sande, and, seeing Fernella crying, she asked what was the matter. “Dear; dear, that’s bad!” she said- “ Never mind, I’ve got quite a nice, large present this year. You. shall havs some of it.” • . And., so Fernella had a present after all! And the fairy queen got all the goblins to make up a special Christmas tree for Melisande--just as an present, because she had been so kind. But Fernella made up her mind that she would stop being lazy, so that the next year she would be able to have a present that was really and truly her own. DONKEY. The players must arrange themselves tn a circle. The leader then tells them that he is about to give to each the name of some animal, and that when he drops the handkerchief which he is holding in his hand he wants them to name "the animal which they are supposed to represent. He then goes round the circle and whispers to every player except one the injunction to “remain silent.. To oiie player alone he whispers, “Donkey.” . . This being done, he takes up his position in the centre of the circle and, holding the handkerchief aloft, says, “Now, then, are you ready? All together,” and drops the handkerchief. For half a second there is a dead silence, which is broken by the voice of the victim being uplifted in a deep, stentorian “bray.”