Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-16

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right in the middle of it" he said,
and if she don't hurry up and tell
it I'm going out and play 18th my
ball, I am
He looked defantly at his sister
as he finished, but that young lady
only smiled, and tugged at one of
her eurls.
81 don't care" she said. I'D like
to go and play myself. Maybe I'll
take a walk down to Mary 'Lizbeth
Browns. I want to see her new
little puppy dog"
Mother Dear bit her lip as she
watched the effect of Dorothys re-
mark on Davie. He sat up straight
and regarded his sister anxiously.
Dorothy Dear, you wouldn't be so
mean! / want you to tell it to me
right now. II was only making
b'lieve bout going out to play 18th
my ball, wasn't [, mother?"
Il think you were" smiled mother
Dear; tell it, Dorothy, and I'll
stay and listen"
Dorothy turned very red and vowed
that she couldn't tell a word If
mother Dear stayed in the room,
because she'd feel too bashful So
mother Dear departed, and Dorothy
took up once more the thread f her
stery about the old witch and the
beautiful princess Gwendolyn and
the prince that wanted to marry
her.
Gwendolyn's father had told the
prince, you remember, that he must
go to the home of the wicked old
witch and make her turn all of the
snakes and owls and nice and
things that were in her little hut
back into people again.
They were under her spell, you
know, as Dorothy gravely told her
brother. because thev had crossed
the enchanted line that surrounded
her house in the woods.
"I viii GO" said Jasper-you re-
member that the prince was named
Jasper?-"and when I return you
will give to me the hand of the
Princess GWendolyn."
Dorothy was so pleased at her
Understanding words that she asked
Davie IL he noticed them.
''O' course" said he, trifie inn
patiently. "hut hurry up and get
to the witch's house And make it
good and exciting. will you, Doro-
thy?"
Dorothy ignored the request. She
had her own idea of how this story
was going to turn out.
$50 the prince" she went on,
Jumped on his milk-white steed,
waved his plumed hat to the Prin-
cess GWendolyn, who was watch
ing from an upper window, and
rode away into the dark. dark for
est, where all sorts of COLLINS and
fairies lurked in the trees and
thickets.
1.-THE prince did not know which
way to go. He only knew that
somewhere in the woods was the
enchanted house of the witch
Suppose he said to himself, I
should step over the enchanted line
without knowing 1t, and get-turned
--into-a-'"
ELEPHANT" supplied Davie, as he
leaned forward in great excitement,
''or maybe a gr-reat big bear!"
This is my story" said Dorothy,
! with dignity. 1.-THE prince didn't
think of a bear or an elephant
cause the witch never turned peo-
| pie into big animals. She was
! afraid they'd turn right around ano
! eat her UP or step on her when she
wasn't looking.
mo. sir. Davie Dear! He was
afraid she'd turn him into a rat OF
q nasty old-ugh-hoptoad, which
would have been much worse" Dor
othy shivered as she uttered this
fact. and added, you could touch
an elephant or a bear and not MIND
| it. but IL you touched a hoptoad
you'd get creeps all up and dowT
| your back, and not be able to eat
your dinner for thinking about 1t. >
"Poohi I wouldn't" cried Davie
"Billy Brown and l killed a hop
toad one day to see If it would rain
and it didn't rain at all. I'm no
afraid of mice, either, or-or moth
| ing"
"You wouldn't want to be turned
into one, would your demanded
Dorothy. looking straight at him.
| "N-no"
"Well. neither did the prince,
crowed Dorothy triumphantly, "ant
now, if you'll let me, TIL go on will
the story. So Jasper thought he't
better ask somebody just where tn
witch lived before he went an!
further.
"'But where'll go to find some
one to ask, he said, half to him
self.
"'Why not ask me?'" came
tiny, tinkling voice.