STARLETS. REMEMBER!

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 934, 2 December 1933, Page 22 (Supplement)

STARLETS. REMEMBER!

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Here are a few important reminders of things that need attention: (a) All discarded or outgrown toys, books or clothes will be most welcome between now and Christmas.

(b) We are having ANOTHER PICNIC in February. (c) Will all Starlets who have kept a record of their marks for the year send them in before December 5, please? To-night’s marks will be the last awarded till February, and may be added to your list. Some consolation prizes will be added.

(d) DECEMBER 16 is the date that the FINALS of the Circle prizes will be awarded. Be sure to get the paper that night and see who have been the best of the Starlets for the year. <c) CHRISTMAS COMPETITIONS entries should be sent in immediately. December 12 is the closing date. I hope you will notice the inclusion of a one-act Christmas play for which 10s 6d cash is the first prize. A lovely Christmas box, wouldn’t it be? The lucky winner will receive it before Christmas, so that it may do its good work.

JUPITER AND THE HORSE. (AESOP’S FABLES.)

High on Mount Olympus, as you all know, lived great Jupiter, the Magic-ian-King, who could do wonderful things whenever he wanted. All sorts of beasts and birds would go to Jupiter to ask favours; and sometimes shepherds and shepherdesses found their way to his shining palace to beg for help. One day, up the mysterious sides of the mountain, trotting steadily through the magic pine trees, crushing the fields of asphorel with his hoofs, came a big brown horse!

He -walked through the golden doors of the palace, and drew near to King Jupiter as he sat on his magnificent throne. Then he made an altogether surprising request.

“ Your Majesty,” said the horse, “ I have come to beg a great favour from you! It is that you would improve my shape! ”

“ Improye your shape?” echoed King Jupiter in amazement. “ But are you not already the most beautiful animal in creation?” “No, indeed!” cried the horse, earnestly. “ I have been thinking the matter over, and I can see a dozen ways in which you could make me handsomer and more impressive than I am.”

Jupiter shook his roval head, but prepared himself to listen with due attention to the horse’s - schemes for his own improvement. “ Well, Sire,” went on this modest, if mistaken, quadruped, “to begin with, look at my neck! It is a stumpy affair at best! What I should like to see set on my shoulders would be a neck as long and graceful as the neck of a swan! ” “Neck of a swan!” murmured Jupiter. “ Where in the world—but go on, go on! What next?” “My legs! ” replied the horse promptly'. “My legs next, your Majesty. They r . too, might be a great deal longer, to match my new neckIf they were twice as long I could gallop twice as fast.” “Possibly—possibly!” agreed Jupiter in a very half-hearted manner. “ And then ” “Then my chest!” broke in the horse. “ I would like it to be twice as broad, so that I could breathe more deeply. And. since I am tired of being fitted with that most uncomfortable thing, a saddle, I would like a hump made on my back, on which men could seat themselves without girthing me up till I am ready to burst my ribs to get rid of the tightness about them! ”

“Hum! Hum!” said King Jupiter. “ And what do you think you would look like at the end of all this?” “ I can hardly tell till I have seen myself,” answered the horse. “ But I feel sure I should look extremely magnificent!” King Jupiter waved his sceptre. “You shall see yourself!” said he. As he spoke the earth seemed to shiver and move; and tip out of the floor of the palace rose a camel! There it stood, this new and awfullooking beast! Its neck, waving like a swan, carried a strange big head. Its wide chest was spread out above its long hairy legs. And in the very middle of its back rose an ugly hump. The horse saw it, and breaking into a frothy sweat, trembled from head to foot with terror.

“That is what you would look like!” thundered Jupiter. “ Now do you still desire to have your shape improved, you most foolish horse ! ” “Oh, no, no!” neighed the horse.

“ Please drive the horrible beast awav! I would not look like it for the world!” But Jupiter was gazing kindly at the camel.

“ I have made a very useful, sensible beast, after all,” said the King of Olympus. “ I will send him to live in the desert, where no horse could exist for more than a few days. And I will keep him under my protection, just as I will keep all the other animals in the world.”

He patted the camel with his sceptre, and then turned to the horse. “ You shall remain the noble and beautiful creature you were born,” said he. “ But, in memory of your folly, you shall never get over your fear of the camel—that animal whom I made to show you the absurdity of your own ideas of improvement! ” And here you have the reason why horses have always been terrified by the sudden sight of camels from that day to this!

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