THE SNOW QUEEN

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20786, 22 April 1939, Page 21 (Supplement)

THE SNOW QUEEN

(Continued) But the higher they flew the more wrinkled did the mirror become, they could scarcely hold it together; they flew on and on, higher and higher, till at last the mirror trembled so fearfully that it escaped from their hands, and fell to the earth, breaking into millions, billions, and trillions of pieces.

( By Hans Anderson )

w And then it caused far greater un-happiness than before, for fragments of it, scarcely so large as * a grain of sand, would be flying about in the air, and sometimes get into people's eyes, causing them to \ view everything the wrong way. or to have eyes only for what was ugly and wrong; each little % fragment having retained the peculiar properties of the entire mirror. Some people were so unfors tunale as to receive a little splinter into their hearts —that was terrible ! The heart became cold and ** hard, like a lump of ice.

Some pieces were larre enough to be used as w indow panes, but it was of no use lo lock at ••lie's friends through such panes as those. other fragments were made into spectacles, and then what trouble people had with setting and re-setting them ! j The Wicked magician was greatly amused with all this, and he laughed till his sides ached. There are still some little splinters of this mischievous mirror flying about in the air; we shall hear j more about them very soon. *