WHAT HUMPTY DUMPTY FOUND.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 47, 22 November 1890, Page 19

WHAT HUMPTY DUMPTY FOUND.

ME morning, as Humpty Humpty was playing in the garden, he said halfaloud : • It's such a trouble haring to carry all this earth in a little tiny tin. I <»'■> wish I had a wheel-barrow.' Humpty Dumpty sat plump down in his garden right on the top of a geranium to think what he should do for a wheelbarrow. It was spring, and the sun was shining brightly, and Humpty Dumpty had been working veryhard. "Presently he fell asleep, and rolled off the geranium on to the nice soft earth which he had !>een carrying from the kitchen garden along a shell path to his own little flower bed. He fell asleep, and dreamed that a beautiful fairy stood close to him and said, softly : • HumptyDumpty

Yes,’ he answered. • Humpty Dumpty, you have been a good little boy, and I am verv fond of good little boys. Besides, I am your Fairy Godmother, Woodleaf. ‘ Are you 1' asked Humpty Dumpty. Generally he could talk very fast, but just now he did not seem to have anything to say. ‘ Yes, lam the Fairy Woodleaf. Now, Humpty Dumpty, what shall I give you I' ‘Oh 1 please give me a wheel-barrow,’cried the little boy. finding his voice at last. ‘ldo so want a wheel-barrow. I have nothing but this old tin that mother gave me, and it holds such a wee bit of earth.' ‘ What are you making in your garden f said the fairy. ‘ I am going to build a tunnel, and I want to fetch some stones for it. and I don't know how to carry them,’ said poor little Humptv Dumpty. ‘ Very well,' the good Fairy Woodleaf went on. ‘ you must sit on that wall when the sun goes down to-night and “Woodleaf. Woedleaf. hither. I pray. Bring me what I wish to-day. Wheel-barrow, wheel-barrow, come. I say." Then go in doors, and go to bed, and early to-morrow morning get up and come ami look on this wall.' Then Humpty Dumpty awoke. He could not believe he had been asleep it was so real, but he determined to do just what the kind fairy had said, and see what would happen. So when the sun set he crept quietly out, though he fancied he heard, his mother saying something about ‘ bedtime, He got on to the wall, and repeated what Woodleaf had said : ■ Woodleaf. Woodleaf, hither. I pray. Bring me what I wish to-day. Wheel-barrow-, wheel-barrow, come. I say.' Then he looked all round, but eould see nothing, so with a little sigh he went indoors, and his mother put him to lied. Early the next morning he woke up, slipped on his shoes and dressing-gown, and; ran out to see if there was anything on the wall. And there was : A green-and-red wheel-barrow, just the right size for him, was standing on the stone. With some difficulty Humpty Dumpty managed to get it down, then he wheeled it indoors and nearly knocked his father over, for he was just coming to look for Humpty Dumptv. Jack Frost.