The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-18

'en to do 1t an they'll Just wind the
ropes about that OF gi'nt and"
But the line moved up step and
Miss Blue Bonnet and the ch1nch1lla
REFER boy were separated.
She gazed down the long line that
ended in front of the Grand opera
house yesterday where the LllllputanS
were playing and sighed impatiently.
She herself looked like big blue pc
Rod at the end of that line, for her
coat was blue and her bonnet was blue
and her eyes were bluer than either
almost as blue as the sky. And 1T was
a very good thing that the sky was
blue and clear yesterday, for 1t was
some time before all the little boys and
girls who desired to see the "ittle peo-
pie" were able to make their way into
the theater, there were so many hum
dreds of them. They formed line
that wavered with excitement and ami
nation.
Grant Was Missing.
"An' the gi'nt will have a bloogy
knife" the chinchiIla REFER boy was
saying, his tickle fancy forgetting Miss
Blue Bonnet in the distraction of gaz-
ing into pair of brown orbs whose
charms were further enhanced by a
ravishing pink bonnet. Those words.
"gi'nt'' and "bloogy," made the brown
eyes UllIlk anu In0lE LNG-y0dr-O OWL
er shudder. AN this gi'nt will try to
kill the little people who, Of course, will
be too tiny to save 'emselves, only the
old gi'nt is stupid an he goes to sleep
and he forgets his knife an"
The crowd surged suddenly and Pink
Bonnet and the chinchilla REFER boy
found themselves in the foyer Of the
theater, and and soon after in their
seatS-seats, alas, cruelty far. apart,
ioc no I1n g
quite at the end Of the line, finally
edged her way in, still out of breath,
still excited. For never before had she
been in a theater and wasn't she going
to see all those marvellous little people,
Hop O. My Thumb and all the rest that
her Christmas book told her about?
She knew, of course, that those little
on her shoes and she wandered just for
a minute If she would be able to see
them, the big curtain seemed so far
away. Then the music began and it
was so jolly that Miss Blue Bonnet
wanted to keep time with her feet to
the lively strains, only her feet didn't
reach the floor. And then the big cur
tain began to roll upward, and Miss
Blue Bonnet's eyes grew bigger and
bigger, for, of course, that was fairy
land behind there. But wasn't 1t a
queer fairy land and-Miss Blue Bon
net tried not to feel disappointed and
she tried to become interested in the
little boys and girls who walked on and
off the stage SO unconcernedly, but
well. you see one could see little boys
and little girls every day. OF course.
these little boys and girls were dressed
like grown-up people, and this inter
ested Miss Blue Bonnet little, but it
was game that she and her friend,
Lucy May, played every Saturday Aft
ernoon and there was nothing so very
wonderful about it. Because Miss Blue
Bonnet was sry she didn't ask the big
sister, who was with her, where the
little people were, but she looked fur
lively under the chairs and the tables,
but not glimpse did she get Of any of
them.
And the 'gint as big as the tele-
graph POLE" where was he? There was
a man on the stage as big as Miss Blue
Bonnet's father, but he did not carry a
knife, and nobody by any possible
chance would have taken him for a