KING WINTER’S VISIT

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20833, 17 June 1939, Page 21 (Supplement)

KING WINTER’S VISIT

Mother Laith was feeling very tired. For nine months she ’nd m l !h ,lo ' v<>r!i - 10 Kbctdcn the hearts of the humans up.m cm h amt to make the world look bright and cheerful, but now slm felt a resf St “ U t! herf w “ Person who could give her hat rest. And that was King Winter, It was he who hushed to sl»eu Autumn*! I'?." 1 ? SW ? pt ti, f lr rools ° f the golden leaves of l.adv frosts and it wa, he h° palnted " orl| l silver with his cold, biting ™ ‘ s .“ d “ "“s ? e "ho wrapped the world in a cloak of snow so that the ear h could sleep peacefully. He too, brought the fogs and the llßhtnfng a ß nd’ h the e mi' t"‘ C l0 "?' dislant rumbl ® of thunder, the shooting patiently for his vi./ ( morn , ing ?- now. Mother Karth waited, yen grow? hm ?.h i■ h,‘, f ° r S ‘" kne " lhal “"hough the humans would ft, nm b hie ‘‘Shtnmg and the thunder, the rains and the trusts and the little children would scramble out of warm bed onlv to shiver'with cold, her flower people and the fairies were in need of sleep 1? Thev were to keep the world bright and clean during the coming vear and it m, L l ' U 'Z t 0: , ' adj Autumn ‘o her well-earned rest b” Mean-' ' ' , c Kln » winter was mumbling and growling to himself down in ins earthen castle for he had lost his very best crown, "And how " he mutcrown » Cai Whv * | Q n ° f , the * e , asons 'ravel to earth in his second-best cro ' n : "h>. all the fairy folk, and the mortals too, would laugh the moment they saw me and that would never do.” So he searched hrt ?" d tbrol ) ph a " bls '•“inclouds and his frost buckets, In atnon/Jl his snow sheets and through the tiny sunbeams which hid in tile odd corners of his bag, he tipped out all his thunderbolts and plucked at his fhn*nrt 8 ° f | lishtnl “f. while the Humans on earth were amazed to see a thunder storm while the skies were blue and the sun shone warm! * He searched amongst his bags of hail and was feeling well and trulv when he discovered his crown behind a tiny bag of fog which had'some how escaped from Its dark sack. So back into Its sack when the mischievous fog child and on to the Head of King Winter went the verv bes crown and all was ready for Winter to commence his reign On,l that very morning Lady Autumn had been told to return to her under’ nmht nd ™ C H 5t ° s ° thal Kin « Winter could visit the earth bv the next night, and now all was ready. Such a striking figure the King made too with his mantle of silver frost and his suit of glistening icicle* h7ng with scraps of forked lightning. o n his head sat the very crown that had been the cause of so much trouble; made of silver cobwebs frozen slifr and studded with frozen dew jewels, hung with tinte.l particles of v" o "'hr d ( f SU , r r Unted by lciclc ' s and e old “ n lightning it was indeed l Witi, bda,ltlful th"’g- ln tns hand the King carried a black bag lllled with mists and fog*, heavy rain showers, snow, silvery frosts, thunder arid hail storms, lightning and one or two sunnv da\'s. When King VV inter entered the earth, no flowers sprang lo birth' a, ins touch Z birds whistled in the trees hut a deep silence fell over all while'the ™o, Cr 'V nUpS ed ,| d °' Vn , ln lllelr earthen beds, the birds crouched to pether for warmth or flew away to warmer climates and the tall trees Stripped of all their leaves, slept. So Mother Kar.b smiled and",Z sleepily, for she knew that although the humans would ha\e cold morn Ings and foggy days. She and her children would have a refreshing sleep and so be ready t 0 brighten the world when spring came once more. * ®