Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-26
STORIES OF CLOUDLAND
More About Dopy Down Billy-By
Farmer Smith

"Dopy Down Dilly. then. gets his sand
out of Sleepy Hollow, which ~ Just back oi
the palace. Just as the sua goes down he
digs pailful. which he carries down to the
World and sprinkles on the eyes of the
little girls and boys to make them sleep.
II was riding round on my automobile
beetle when | saw him digging his sand, and
followed him up to his room where he puts
on his wings.
HE went inside the room. leaving his
pail OF sand outside the door. My automo-
bile beetle didn't make any noise and
just rode along soft as air picked up his
pail and rode away down the hall and out
the back door.
II didn't really mean TO pnt the Moon to
sleep, but when Dopy Down Duly missed
his pail he flew after me, crying out that
II didn't come back he would punish me
awful He cried out so loud that he fright
ened my automobile beetle, and when !
wanted to go back to escape being punished
l found that my beetle had run away
with me-
II couldn't even steer my Beetle and we
bumped into lot OF stars. Then We few
up over the Moon and the Beetle wabbled
so that couldn't hold the pail steady.
IT tried to hold tight to the pail but It
twisted right around and all the sand ran
out and fell in Mr. Moons eyes, He went
sound asleep and didn't wake up until next
morning. And you see, as he was asleep.
he couldn't shine that night never saw
the Moon so angry before. and Dopy Down
Dilly was just wild about it, for he didn't
have any sand left in his pail to put the
children to sleep until ever so late"
Was Prince Marmolade angry too?"
asked Tulip Heart
"sh-sh-sh." whispered zu zu. here comes
Gruff Gruff."
When the old nurse Grufr Gruff came to
dress Tulip Heart every morning when she
awoke in her little gold bed in the palace
OF Cloudland she did not come In the door,
but down from the ceiling.
The ceiling OF Tulip Hearts room was
made or fluffy white cloud, and at night IL
Tulip Hearts eyes we're not toe sleepy she
could see a lot OF little stars twinklng in
the hutfy white stun. In the morning the
stars had gone.
Grun Grun never knocked or gave the
little girl any warning Of when she was
coming. She just dropped a golden rope
down through the ceiling and then came
sliding down the rope II was very funny
the way she came down the rope for she
would grunt and grunt and grunt until
she reached the floor, and her skirts would
fly all about her and show her sunhower
stockings.
Yes. she wore green stockings with big
sunhowers painted on them. Grun Gruff
was so very old that she had no teeth. but
she was very quick and spry, and could
jump about and run just as fast as Tulip
Heart II she wanted TO.
Tulip Heart couldn't help but laugh every
time Grun Grun came sliding down the
golden rope from the ceiling.
The day after zu zu had told her about
how he stole the Sand Mans pail OF sand
and put the Moon to sleep Tulip Heart asked
GFuh Grun why she didn't come into the
room through the door.
Il don't like DOORS" said Gruff GrufT be
cause my father was Iack-in-the-Box and
the bad little boy that santa Claus gave
him 70 kept pounding him on the head all
the time and jamming the door OF his box
down on him"
WAS your papa really a lack -in-the-
Box 2" asked Tulip Heart That's awfuliy
funny for he couldn't have had any feet
Just sprlnss.Y
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