Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-08
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURES
Secret of the JeDeis'
ny DADDY
CHAPTER
Peggy Sees Strange Things

Peggy and Billy sat staring at the
jewels in the pirates cave. What Sc
cret did those jewels hold? II they could
speak, what could they tell of the mys-
terry Of the vanished pirates? And what
could they tell of the punishment OF
the pirates by Magisco, the fairy magi-
clan?
Magisco, according to the story told
by Filter Flash, the fairy leader, had
left message in which he said the pi..
rates would be shut up for hundreds OF
from bad pirates into good pirates and
not until fair young girl and brave
young lad had come to their rescue
would they be set free.
IF the pirates had been shut up for
hundreds Of years, | think they have
been punished enough" declared Billy.
$50 do L." added Peggy.
But not unless they have become
good pirates, for they we're very bad
pirates" said Filter Flash.
They would have to be very, very
bad pirates indeed not to have the bad
ness taken out of them by being shut
up hundreds and hundreds of years.
insisted Billy. ''Once when l was bad
L was shut up In a closet, and the bad
ness went out Of me very fast. ! was
very, very good within an hour.
Wouldn't 1t be wonderful IL were
the girl and you the lad to set them
free?' mused Peggy.
Lets look closely among the gems
| for some trace of the pirates" said
| Billy. SO, with Filter, Flash and the
other fairies, they fitted about among
the thousands of jewels in the pirates
| Ave. But they saw no trace of pi-
-ttes, who, according to Filter Flash 6
story, were shut up in the gems.
If we were only boy and girl size
| again we could search better" SAID
Billy, for being fairy size they were no,
large enough to lift the top jewels tc
look at those beneath.
Il wish we were boy and girl SIZE
cried Peggy. And of sudden they
were boy and girl size again. Bump
They landed on the floor, for, of course
the wings made for them by Legs, thu
spider wing maker, were now too small
to bear them up.
'Oh, am sorry l made that wish, ;
cried Peggy, who had found 1t a 10
Of fun to be able to fit about with thu
fairies. Until her wish was granted
she hadn't remembered the strang,
wishing power given her by Foil.
Wisher, the goblin.
|
flew about sadly and tried to tell Pegg!
and Billy how badly they felt. Blu
Peggy and Billy couldn't hear them
for now their ears were too big to hea
such tiny sounds as the fairy voices.
'Oh, wish we had magic trumpet
so we could hear the fairies" exclaimed
Peggy.
At once Billy gave shout Of joy
In one corner of the cave he had fount
two old-time ear trumpets. They pu
these to their ears, ana now they coul,
hear the fairies plainly.
1T is too bad you have been mad
big again." cried Filter Flash to them
But now you can search better for tn
pirates hiding place"
That was true, and Peggy and Bill
began at once to look into the jewel
buried in the different piles of gems
They searched and searched, but foun
nothing until Peggy came upon a bi
sparkling diamond. She cried out i
joy at the beauty Of the diamond an
held 1t closely to look at it. Then he
cry of JOY turned to n scream of fca
and wonder. She had seen somethin
wondrous strange in the depths of tn
diamond.
What that wondrous strange thin
was will be told tomorrow.