Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04
Honorable MentIon)

NJ found Mary thinking Of "'bout a
million" things, while her pencil ana
paper remained unused.
"Just to give Mary an idea of bout
a million I'm going to show her what
million really MEANS" said the sun
fairy, and the following Is Marys i'm
preston of what she saw:
Suddenly grew very warm and felt
as IL a million blankets were wrapped
around me. I began to travel SO fast
when l locked down the people re-
sembled ants, the buildings toy blocks
and a group of tents near the city tiny
scraps of paper. / thought or mil
lion things, and wished million times
/ were home but wishing didn't seen TO
do any good.
Presently I grew to like my strange
experience and looked down on the
earth again. The rivers looked nks
baby ribbon and the snow-cappeu
mountains like chocolate creams with
the tops eaten off,
Next l visited land where every
thing seemed to be about million ana
the people said 1t so many times tnas
before / left / had such good idea OF
what a million was that l resolved 10
never use that silly expression again.
and a number of~others that one uses
every day, because bad habits formed
i'm childhood are hard to overcome.
Mary was able to write her compost
ton when she awoke, and the next Gay
the teacher complimented her upon her
good work. xoo.s,s
Private lessons. Age Is years. An
gelus hotel.
So Mary went to Webster who said,
n very great number, or ten hundred
thousand. But Mary couldn't think OF
a story then, and besides tnat exercise
had tn be
rracticed a great deal before Tuesday.
So she sat down to the piano and prac-
tioed. That night after supper Mary
was read "Gulliver's Travels" when
her mother told her that she had to go
to bed very early, at o'clock.
AS soon as she fell asleep sne was
slowly moving out of New York harbor
on q strange steamer. She noticed that
there was no one in the boat but her
self and she felt very queer. AS she
sailed farther and farther away the
land was getting very small ana also
the boat she was on. She felt terribly
awkward and big.
In front of her she saw great many
little islands. When she counted them
she found there were a million. on
dear mel" and she heaved a heavy
sigh. At this all the little ISLANDS
seemed suddenly dotted with tiny black
spots. When she counted the dots on
each island she found million dots.
She walked up nearer and found that
the dots were tiny people. Just then
she grew very weak and fell over into
the water. She felt something on her
legs and looking down she saw million
little people climbing up each leg. she
was hauled ashore and she found that
she covered five of the ISLANDS. Eacn
island sent a doctor and so she mad
million doctors crawling all over her.
Just as she was lying there the sun
began to rise. 'Oh" she cried, for
there were a million suns rising up from
everywhere, and just then all the little
people turned into q million California
fieas and began crawling all over her
toes.
Just then she awoke and foundther-
self in her own little bed, with the sun
streaming on her eyes and her pet An
CORA kitten playing with her toes oh,
how glad am that that dream wasn't
truei" said Mary.
Long Beach, S37 Chestnut avenue,
Pine avenue school, A6 grade, age IL
years.
Mary and Jessie went to their rooms,
and each got their dictionaries to look
up the word.
After a half an hours hard thinking
on Mary's part had passed-she came in
"Have you written your story al
ready" said Mary, looking at Jessie.
mo, I haven't; have you?" Eyes,
I will read it If you like"
This is what it was:
"One day 1 went to see a cripple girl.
While was there I asked her how she
became crippled. She said: One day
when I was about 10 years old I and
my brother were climbing tree. 1
stepped on a dead limb and 1t broke,
so I fell. I think 1 must have had a
million thoughts of how to stop myself.
When I reached the ground / think I
must have seen about that many stars.
When I fell broke my leg, so I have
not been able to walk since
ELSIE McWILLIAMS,
Centralia school, Buena Park; grade
z; age ~.
One day papa took Carl out to hunt
with him, and mamma took us to see
lady who kept bees to make her liv-
ing.
The lady said we could stay out