Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-09-12
Marjorie Muriel Burr Likes
Chautauqua Woman's Story

Dear Editor: 1t has been long
while since wrote to the Junior page.
have ben thinking I would get time
to write you letter but have never
got time.
Miss Martin at chautauqua at Fair
| field told me the most interesting
story ever heard
| Once upon a time long time ago
/ there lived an English woman. She
had daughter. She told her daugh'
ter to bake five pies. Her daughter
! baked them and thought that she
/, would taste them. They were hard
and were not good so she threw them
away. That evening her mother told
her to bring her pie. She told her
mother that they were not good and
she threw them away. Her mother
| told her to bake some more pies. So
she baked them. They were good and
she ate all of those five pies. That
evening her mother told her to bring
her the pies. She told her that she
had eaten them. That evening after sup
per the mother took her spinning
wheel out on the porch and as she
was spinning she sang my daughter
ate five pies today my daughter ate
five pies today, my daughter ate five
! pies today, my daughter ate five pies
today After while the king came !.
along What are you singing my
good woman?" When the woman saw
it was the king she did net want to
| tell him that her daughter had eaten
| five pies, so she said my daughter
spun five skeins of flax today, my
| daughter spun five skeins of flax TO-
day, my daughter spun five skeins OF
flax today, my daughter spun five
skeins of fax today. Finally the KING
| got the woman into the notion OF let
ting the daughter marry him. For
eleven months you shall have good
time, have your friends come to see
you and have everything you want.
For eleven months the queen had
good time and everything she wanted.
The day before the first Of the twelfth
month come the king said, tomor-
row l shall put you in here and nave
you spin me five skeins of fax eacn
day and the first day you miss of Will
go your head. Oh, what was she to
do She had never spun anything in
her life The next morning after the
queen had gone into the little room
she heard something at the door. She
looked up above the door and what DO
you think she saw there? She saw a
little black thing there with long
crooked nose and long tail that went
around and around and around. It
came in and told her that he would
spin her fax for her If she would guess
three guesses each night what his
name was. Oh, that will be easy
thought the queen That night there
was tap. tap on the window. The
queen went to the window to let the
little thing in. Each night when she
let the dwarf in she tried to guess his
name but she could not. On the last
night just before the dwarf came to the
window the king came in and asked
her why she was so sad. She, said
that she was so tired and lonely. The
king said l will take supper with you
and tell you some stories. So that
night they had the servant bring in
supper for two. was walking in the
woods today when I saw the funniest
little thing sitting in his little house
singing, Minnie, Minnie, not, my
name is Tommy, Tommy tot. The
woman was real happy now for she
knew it was the drawf. Just after the
king had left there was tap, tap, tap
at the window and the QUEEN went
and let the little thing in and he said:
"Three more guesses and you are
mine. On the last guess she pointed
her finger, at him and said Minnie,
Minnie not, your name is Tommie.
Jimmie tot The little dwarf just got
SO little and with one Jump he was
out of the window. So the queen did
not have to be his wife after all And
the queen lived happy after that.
Marjorie Buriel Burr, age 9.
Fairfield, Ia, R. R. No. I.
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