STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By MAX TRELL ALL AFTERNOON Kmart and
Hanid, the Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names, and Ting-a-Ling, who lived at the bottom of the Blue China Plate, bad walked and talked as they walked.
It was lovely walking-and- talking country inside the Blue Chine Plate. For once you made yourself small enough to fit in- site the plate, you found paths through the hills and around the lakes and through the
:woods.
Some Funny Names
-Knarf, Hanid, Ting-a-Ling Know Quite A Few-
"Like what, please?" Hanid asked.
"Like Daddy Long Legs." re- plied Ting-a-Ling. "Isa't that a delightful name for a Bug with long legs?"
Knarf said he had
just
thought of another wonderful name,
"Hers Fly," he said.
Many more
"And Dragon Fly."
said
"And
"And Daming Needle." Blue Bottle Fly."
Hanid.
It is a lovely name."
Even Knarf had to admi: that Daisy, or Day's Eye, was anything but an ordinary name. "And you have other levely, wonderful names." said Ting-a-
said Knarf and Hanid were sur Ling. "There's Black Eyed Su- long, thin, delicate green leaves
prised, especially Krarf.
san, and Tiger Lily, and Jack Knari. that hung down like hair.
sad Hanid. "And Fire Fly." The Pulpit, and Batchelor "It's just an ordinary name," In he asked Knarf and Hanid.
"What do you call that tree?"
he insisted.
Button, and-"
"And Lightning Bug. and Glow
Knarf and
"And Forget Me Not," inter- Worm." Hanid promptly Hanid asked Ting-a-Ling by
"And Goldfish." said Knarf. come a willow what replied that it
they called toad- rupted Hanid.
Lion," Dandy
and said "And Sunfish and Startish the country tree.
stools in
of the
Catfish." Blue China Plate.
"You ste." Ting-a-Ling kept "We call them Umbrellas That
saying as they walked back Go Up After The Rain," an- Dandy Lion.
home. "there's nothing swered Ting-a-Linz. "But I like
strange about my Old Woman Toadstools better."
With Fresh Grean Hair at all!"
Was
Ting-a-Ling smiled.
"We have another name," he said, "we call it Old Woman With Fresh Green Hair."
"Why, that's a very pretty and she repeated the name sev- name, Ting-a-Ling," said Hanid, eral times. But Knarf said it
on
"And Knarf.
They all laughed at Knarie
you
"There are other lovely, won- derful, funny names that As they walked again. have," said Ting-a-Ling. Knarf said that the Toadstool. was the only name he could, think of that was at all
like was a tree. And it wasn't fresh the names of the things in
Blue China Plate. een hair, it was leaves.
A happy sight- There were singing Robins in the trees, and floating clouds in the sky, and jumping Fish in the lakes, and whenever Knarfasn't really an old Woman, it and Hand and Ting-a-Ling pessed by a house there were sure to be smiling faces in the windows and waving hands in the doorway.
Sometimes they were offered biscuits and tiny cups of tea, and sometimes they were of- fered sweet nuts and jam made cover blossoms and rese fetals.
And as they walked along, they talked of many things. One of the things they talked of was the custom that Ting-a-Ling's People had of making up won- geriul names.
"Now,
do you see that tree just ahead of us, leaning over the brook?" Ting-a-Ling asked as they reached the foot of a grassy hill.
Looks like woman.
(cm-
"I know," Ting-a-Ling agreed. "It's only a tree, of course. But sometimes, early in the ing when the mist is in the air; like a tree at it doesn't look all. It locks exactly like an old Woman with fresh green hair."
Then they walked спе bit further. Ting-a-Ling stopped again. He pointed.
"And what would you call that?" he asked.
Knarf
and Hanid looked. They saw that Ting-a-Ling was pointing
a toadstool, and they told him that that was its
name.
to
the
"Oh no." said Ting-a-Ling. shaking his head. "you have lots and lots of wonderful, love- ly names. What's the name of that flower?" he asked. stoop- ing down and putting his hand gently around flower with white petals and yellowish centre.
It's a Daisy
"That's a Daisy," said Knarf "And that's a plain. ordinary name!"
"It's plain," said Ting-a-Ling, "but it isn't ordinary. Do you know what Daisy really means. It really means Day's Eye."
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Rupert and Gwyneth—7
What has puzzled Rupert is a piece of paper with three pennies it lying beside the pile cf tlowers. What has she given us the threepence fer?" asks Podgy. She hasn't taken the flowers in exchange."
Yes. she has," says Rupert. lovely
At least, she's taken
"There, you see!" Ting-a-Ling exclaimed. "You have
Ting-a-Ling pointed to an old tree with a bent-over trunk and names, too!"
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"Day's Eye?" repeated Hanid, to smile. suddenly beginning "Why, that must mean the sun.
A Daisy is the eye-of-the-sun.
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those dark berries from the brook. What on earth does she want them for?" Their curiosity now gets the better of their caution, and they hurry after the strange £gure. up on to higher ground to wilder country until they see her enter a cleft in a rock face.
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