STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL
HAND, the Shodow Girl with
Chirpie's Story
the Turned-About Name, sicht know why she did P, but the first thing she said when Chirple Spanow few down an up and swallowed nine or ten the window sit for his break- bread crumbs. Finally he re fast bread cranes was
-He Tells About His Grandmother Twittic-
"Hi, Grupię, dear! How are you this morning and how Is your whole family?"
Chimple appeared a bit sur- prised that anybody should ask about his whole family, Just to get over his surprise, he picked
plied:
"I feel fine, and my whole family feels fine, and especially my Grandmother Twittie. She just moved into a church."
It was now Hanid's turn to be surprised. She had never,
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* Well, ~~~ I must face it." matters Ray, and, screwing up his courage, he speaks loudly. "I want to go home." he says." That ya axdly what Podzy sid. Now let's see what happens." Hardly has he spoken when Tabitha leaps straight at him, the broem rises Ermly and smoothly
and he is carried up into the air with the black cat clinging to his back. "Th-this is awful;" he quavers. "The broom handle's terribly wroW. I hope I don't 6 " Then he remembers that the magic is working and that he cannot loosen his grip.
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never heard of Chirple Spar- row's Grandmother Twittie.
"Living in a church?" Hanid exclaimed.
ment a whole crowd of Mothers ́and Fathers and Children came crowding into the church. Poor Grandma Twittie didn't know what to do. But she saw that she couldn't ge: out through the door. So up she flew, up, up, up, until at last she came to rest on something that locked like a lot of enormous whistles."
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Grandais Twittle sang at the top of her voice.
"Yup," said Chirpie, helping "Those were the organ pipes!" himself to another few crumbs. Hanid in Tupted. "I know it sounds strange. But "Yes, aid Chirpie. "So there that's Grandma Twittie for you. she waited. She wasn't shiver- She moved into a church. And ing with cold any more. She there she is, as happy as a was shivering with fright. For Lark. I mean, as happy as a she thought if those Mamas top of her happy voice, stand- flock of Sparrows."
and Papas and Children spied ing right there on top of the her inside their church, they organ!" would be so angry that there
Between bread crumbs, Chir- ple told the story of how Grand- mother Twittle moved into church.
a
"It was a cold, wintry Sun- day morning. Grandma Twittie wasn't feeling any too well.
"She flew up one street and down another, looking for some snug spot to squeeze into where she could get warm. But all the houses were shut up tight.
Extra large house "She got colder and colder, And then, all at once, she came to an extra large house with tall steeple. The door was wide open. She flew right in.
"How
cried
was no telling what they might Hanid. "And was everybody in
wonderful!" do to her.
the church glad?"
"She didn't make a sound. She didn't even move. And then it happened."
"What did?" Hanid asked.
Started playing
"Those whistles started blow- ing-I mean the organ started playing. The Mamas and Papas and Children started singing. of a sudden Grandma And all Twittie wasn't frightened
any more.
Very glad
"They couldn't have been gladder," answered Chirple. "They never wanted her to go away.
"This is your house as well ours, someone said.
"Well, so that's why Grand- ma Twittle decided to keep on living in the church. That's where she's going to stay!"
"She heard all that happy "And then she saw that she music coming out of the whis- And Chirpie, having finished was inside a church."
tles, and all that happy singing his broad crumbs as he finished "Oh dear!' she said. 'I can't coming from the People so the story, gave a
his stay here! Oh, dear me!'
flip with what did Grandma Twittle do? wings and away he went; leav- "Shè burst out chirping and ing Hanid smiling to herself in i again except that at that mo- twittering and singing at the the window.
"She was about to fly out
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OF MY WORK
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