STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL
IEE SUN was shining cheer- fully. The trees in the park were waving their branches to dandelions abe another. The were playing hide-and-seek un- der the buttercups.
A Day In The Park
-Shadows Watch Birds Play A Strange Game-
chief, the finger of a lost glove, and the Bird that was standing and turning found the corner of an old newspaper.
They all flew off with their friends.
"Game!" Mr Punch said to
Some were dashing about, some were hopping about. Some KDarf and Hanid later when were lying and hopping and
they were home again. "Those dashing. Some were hopping Birds weren't playing any game. and dashing and flying. One was standing and turning. All of them were looking and peer They both watched the Robin. "Sparrow hey, Sparrow!"
ing and searching and hunting. It dashed across the fresh green Knaff called over. "What's the The Robin found a match The Butterflies were playing grass. It cocked its head to name of the game you're play stick. tag across the lawn. The Beetles one side, then to the other. It ing?" were playing hide-and-seek in- looked. It peered. Then it
At that instant the Sparrow dashed forward again.
"Robin!" Knart called
into the grass. swooped down out
de the rocks.
It was eS you might have guessed-a beautiful spring What game are you playing? It found something. It found a meaning.
Did somebody hide something used postage stamp. and you are trying to find it?”
Shadows in park Kner and Hanid, the Shadow Children with the Turned-About Naipes, came walking down the peth in the park. They looked at the cheerful sun and griled, They waved back at the trees. They nodded to the dandelions and the buttercups. They ran along with the Butterflies and the Begles.
They sat down on the bench that looked over the pond.
It's a wonderful day," said Haid to Knast
All having fun Bierybody is doing nothing but having fun," said Keart to Harid
Didn't answer
The Robin didn't answer. Suddenly at the edge of the lawn it found a bit of string. cf It pounced on it. It flew with it!
Knarf and Hanid looked at each other.
"Now why did it do that?" Hanid wondered aloud.
Knarf said he didn't know of any game where you had And a piece of string.
to
Knarf stared. Hanid stared. The Sparrow didn't stare. It uttered a chirp of triumph and flew off with the used postage stamp in its bill.
"Now what do you know about that!" Knari said to Hanid. "What does a Sparrow want with ап old postage: don't write, stamp? Sparrows letters."
Can't understand
tie
"And what does a Robin want Flew and hopped `- with a piece of string?" Hanid
don't "Look," said Hanid again, added. "Robins This time it was a Sparrow. bundles." Instead of dashing across the It was all a great mystery. *Ncbody's working Every grass the way the Robin did, "Look," said Hanid for the body is playing” said Hanid. the Sparrow half-few, half- third time. The Robin was back "Lock-bere comes a Pabin. I hopped. But, like the Robin, it again. So was the Sparrow. wonder what kind of game it's kept locking, peering, search- And there were
five other Birds.
ing
also four
er
They were building their nests, "What do Birds use for nest- building? Why, string and pa- and per and thread and cloth pins anything they can find!". And that's what Knarf and The Sparrow found a thread. Hanid found out on that beau- The other Birds founi a bent tiful, cheerful spring morning pin, the end of a torn handker- in the park.
Rupert and Gwyneth-43
The two little pals gaze at the pile of witch's clothes. "What'll happen to all these ?" asks Rupert. I send the hat back to my Welsh Auntie," says Gwyneth. and keep the rest because they're so quaint." Then they all go in for a meal and
she tells them about her efforts to make magic from the Book of Spells. "It's all beyond me," says Mr. Bear. "I couldn't have believed any of it if I hadn't scen Rupert and Podgy with my own eyes riding home to my own garden on a broomstick !"
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