The Washington times., 1912-11-14
For The Times Children
Just Before It's Bedtime
THE REVENGE OF THE GNoMES.

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one night. and invited the Cob
lins, but they did not ask the
Enomes because they did not
think OF them.
| The gnomes live SO deep in the earth
that the fairies seldom meet them, and
SO they really forgot and did not In the
| least intend to slight them. But the
| enomeE heard the goblins talking about
! the party one night and they we're very
| angry because they were not asked also.
The woods were very beautiful, and
! some OF the trees were wearing their
red and yellow leaves. for 1t was late
| In the summer. when the moon came
out the green and red and yellow made
| n pretty picture, and the fairies were
| delighted with tho setting for their
party.
The fairy queen had a new carriage
made from n petal of @ white lily and
drawn by two butterflies. The fairies
all had new dresses of pink rose petals
and they had thd frefiies in all the
bushes and trees, where they looked like
so many tiny electric lights.
Their table was spread on a big rock.
the rabbits were to walt on the table
because their coats were white and
squirrels were to do the cooking In
little hollow. The table cloth was spun
by a spider and was 10 beautiful that
the queen when she saw II thought II
was shame to cover II with disncs.
10 she had the rabbits put the food on
rock behind tree and leave the
beautiful cloth so the goblinB could
| see II.
But when the goblins arrived they
looked at the table with dismay. Are
, not they going to have anything to
! eat?" they asked each other, septinS
| themselves at the table and looking
| with anxious eye.
Not word did they say to the
queen about the beautiful cloth and
she found that 1t was quite wasted on
the greedy little goblins
There were 80 many goblIns that the
fairies were obliged to spread table
| on the ground for themselves and when
the rabbits appeared with the food the
1 gobIins Jumped up and helped them
| selves before the rabbits could serve
| them.
At last the queen. seeing that It wos
| OF no use to have walters for the COB
llns, told the rabbits to put the lee
cream and cake and lemonade and all
III" nice 'n,nss on 'ne 'a''s
sous "P A.. ,.,,t,,,
Inc hio eonhns sp'''e' '"' ''..'
,io'h the SPIDER hao IAN" so -
lrouole 10 weave 'heF spn,e" NV ~
onace and they crunpie" 'ne 'aNe "''"
the poor queen was IN despair
The goblins. not getting the food
| quick enough to suit them. had climb
| ed on the table. which YOU remember
was spread on a rock. Now. this rock
did not have any moss on II. and It
| happened that II was one of his doors
| to the home OF the Gnomes.
The Gnomes are little brown men and
they hide under leaves and sticks that
are So near the color OF themselves
| that they cannot be seen. SO they mad
h.eo watching all that went on at the
par,v and when they saw--the COLLINS
! on ton of one of their rocks part OF their
! number hurried into the earth and
o,,roa tho stone where the goblins
,r.ro
cou,o ~ tho Roblins were quick
oro,gb 70 oscape. but most of them
..,n, ,r,o tho ground and all the cake
a,a ,andy and ice cream with them.
Tha queen and her fairies Jumped up
and Locked around, Everything was
changed and the fairies shivered as
tbay looked