STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL HARF, the Shadow Boy with
the Turned-About Name, www the Lady coming down the path through the park. He ran up the path to meet her.
And there she was, coming
all the slowly along, holding balloons! Same were red, some blue, some yellow, some striped, and some had no colour at all. But they were all attached to
held. strings which the Lady fast in ber hand.
Tried to get away They floated and bobbed in the air over her head, and when the wind came along, they jerked and tugged and tried to get away.
"Good moming. Balloon Lady!" said Kharf.
"Good morning, Boy!" said the Balloon Lady.
The Balloon Lady
-She Tells Knarf About One Of Her Trips➡
and over the houses and far balloons if you had come down? They would have flown away, away?"
away, away."
The Balloon Lady looked up at her balloons and saw how they were jerking and tugging and pulling and straining.
"Yes," she finally said, "they once did. They once did fly away over the trees and over the houses."
on just the same. go."
"Didn't it ever happen, Bal- Lady. 300gs:Lady?" asked Knarf.
ever
rain. But I didn't let go of the balloons. They came down with me. We all came down, the rain, the balloons and I."
"Bui you didn't get hurt?" asked Knarí.
Bought new hat
"X, mt much." said the Bal- leen Lidy. "He just went and boug himself a new, hat. And I gave him a balloon. He took it home for his little Boy. He wasn't very angry at all.”
"Good-bye. Balloon Lady," said Knarf. "I hope the wind and blow doesn't come along
a cloud again. you up into
"I'm too fat for the wind to do that any more." said the Balloon Ledy. "Good-bye. Boy!"
And Knarf ran back down the path and the Balloon Lady kept walking slowly, holding on to the string of balloons, tug- "They would have flown to "Not at all," said the Balloon
"Only the Policeman's sing and jerking in the wind. some red, some blue, some yel- the North Pole, the South Pole, Lady. the East Pole and the West hat got spoiled. I landed on it low, some striped, some with Pole," the Balloon Lady said.
"I'm not sure that there is an East-Pole and a West Pole," she added.
"But where did you go with the balloons you wouldn't let Knarf go of, Balloon Lady?" asked. "Did you go to the North Pole, or the South Pole, or the East Pole, or the West Pole?"
"What did you bump against, Balloon Lady?" asked Knarf.
"Oh!" exclaimed Knarf. “And you lost them all?"-
"No," said the Balloon Lady. away but I held "They flew
I didn't let "Oh!" exclaimed Krtarf again. "I went up." said the Balloon What about balloons? . Lady. "I went straight up un- "I held on," said the Balloon til. all of a sudden. I bumped
"and when I looked against something." around I saw that I was flying "Dirm't what
happen, over the trees and over the Boy?" asked the Balloon Lady, houses and over the People._I He a Policeman. looking at Knarf with a puzzled flew
"A blue shouted at me to come down." expression in her large
"Did you?" asked Knarf." eyes.
What Knerf means
"Not just then," answered "Didn't it ever happen,' "said the Balloon Lady. "Because if Kaári "that they all flew I had come down, I would have come down right on top of the away?"
"All my balloons you mean?". Policeman. I would have spoiled
his hat. asked the Balloon Lady.
"He
liked wouldn't have that," she said.
"No," said Knarf. "And what
happene. to the Lady. would have
"Yes," nodded Knart. "Didn't it ever happen that the wind came along and your balloons went dying away, over the trees
over
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Bumped against cloud
cloud," said the Balloon Lady, "I bumped myself against a cloud."
"And what happened then?" aked Knarf excitedly.
"I made a hole in the cloud and all the rain came pouring down," said the Balloon Lady.
down. "And did you come foo?" asked Knarf
"I did." replied the Balloon "I came down with the
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after all."
"Oh." said Knarf. angry?"
dots and splotches, and some Was he with no eciour at all, just like
big, round, fat sunbeams.
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Rupert and Gregory hurriedly tell Mrs. Bear the story, both try
At length ing to speak at once. she stops them. "I can't under stand what the fuss is about," she says. "I think that yellow gnome looks very nice as it is, and now you say it used to be other colours.
We
Well, does it matter?" "Oh, yes, yes," pleads Rupert.The real gnomes are terribly angry. must see who bought the others! He is so earnest that Mrs. Bear takes them in for lunch! and then gives them their fares, and soon they are on the bus.
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