STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL
NOW. OF all the Pixies, the Pixie O'Scowl gloomiest was
ard the laziest was Pixie Mc- Stroke
Bat of all the Pixies who
O'Gay's Own Sunbeam
-And When He Lows İt Kurf Finds It For Him-
when Pixie O'Gay wasīt smil- ren with
Fixie O'Gay had happened.
a large Grasshopper, ran hap- pily along the tiny path that twined in among the blades of grass and clumps of daisies and buttercups.
Never in his life-but never- explained what had Pixie O'Gay, the happiest of all the Pixies, felt so happy.
O'Gay felt sad
And, all of a sudden, Pixie O'Gay. without knowing the reason, felt sadder than he ever
Early, in the morning, just after dawn, when the golden surf came streaming down from the sky, Pixie O'Gay had the Turned-About come out of O'Cheer Hall and felt before.
and He sang
whistled. He lived in O'Cheer Hall, the fun or grinning or laughing or Names, fourd Pixie O'Gay sit- walked in the Park.
chuckling softly to himself ting or a bent blade of grass about something that he in the middle of the Park. And smiled and he chuckled to him- Pixie thought was funny,
of course they expected to see self.
Then suddenly he stopped short! him smiling and grinning and chuckling as usual.
met and jolliest, and merriest and widest-awake was OGay.
There was not a day of the of the day week or an hour
+
Now it happened that Khart and Hanid, the Shadow Child-
Rupert and Gwyneth—1
There are still some warm days it in the autumn, and en ene ef them Rupert has been sent cut to pick bacel nuts from the bushes He in the edge of the common. has begun busily when a ruddan gali makes him start and rum mund. “Why, it's Pedgy Pig!'
he exclaims. "Hello, Podgy, just look at your face and hands 1 What have you been eating? Surely not Blackberries! My mummy says that late blackberries growing in October are bad for you." "Pooh, they're not bad for me." says
**I like them at any time.! Podgy. ALL RIGHTS RESTEVED
"
O'Gay was gloomy But to their surprise arti dis- Pixie appointment, they found O'Gay looking as glum and as gloomy as Pixie O'Scowl.
"Pixie O'Gay! What's the matter?" cried Hanid.
"I've lost it," said Pixie O'Gay.
5
Dancing sunbeam
There, dancing or the petal of a daisy, was the shiniest, glowingest, beamingest, most sparkling and glittering golden Sunbeam that anyone had ever
seen!
Slowly, Pixie O'Gay crept up on that Sunbeam, holding his "Lost it, dear?" said Hanid. hand out with his fingers curled "What have you lost?"
as though he were about to try to catch a Fly.
Lost his sunbeam "My Sunbeam,” said Pixie O'Gay. "I caught it this morn- ing and lost it."
Knarf and Hanid's eyes opened up like saucers.
thousands of They had seen Sunbeams perhaps millions but they had never heard of anyone able to catch a Sun-
let beam and keep it,
alone lose it.
And this was the reason: He had lost the bottle with the Sunbeam!
"I don't think I'll ever find it again," Pixie O'Gay now said to Knart and Hanid.
"I've looked for it over and over again. My bottle with the Sunbeam is gone."
Knarf found it
It was Knarf who discovered the bottle with Pixie O'Gay's Sunbeam.
Coming down the path was Pixie O'Scowl.
But instead of scowling, the gloomy Pixie was laughing and roaring with laughter.
"I don't know why I'm so happy," he said. "I just found this old shiny bottle and the minute I found it I started to
Then suddenly his hand laugh."
swooped,
"I've caught it!" he shouted ever though no one heard it.
Then Pixie O'Gay found a small bottle and carefully dropped the precious Sunbeam into it.
He hurriedly covered the bottle with a cork.
For an hour or more, Pixie O'Gay, who was no bigger than
Told O'Scow!
Knarf and Hanid told Pixie O'Scowl about the Sunbeam in
the bottle and made him prom- ise to share it.
saw
And the last time they Pixie O'Gay and. Pixie O'Scowl, they were running arm in arm through the tall blades of grass and the clumps of daisies and buttercups, laughing and laugh- ing.
Four D. Jones THE USTENING
BY MADDOCKS
NINOTCHKA!
IT IS A SPY ĮTAKING SNAPS
COMMISSAR!
DEVICE DETECTS/ I HEAR NO PLANE, THE CLICK OF WHAT DIABOLICAL THE SKYMAN'S} CAPITALIST CAMERA TRICK IS
THIS?
THE COMMISSAR HAS RUMBLED THE SPY THROUGH HIS SPY-GLASSES
FERDINAND
IT'S A MAN DISGUISED AS
A CLOUD!
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