The Washington times., 1938-07-13

other whistles. Iney were al
white, and they all looked as il
they were made of celluloid. But
Michael knew the one he pickeC
wasn't. 1t was carved of ivory
from an elephants tuSk.
1t was different from all other
whistles on the card, and had got
in among them by mistake. 1t was
magic whistle. He treasured ii
above everything on the earth, al
! most. 1t was nearly as nice as
Mother.
He practiced blowing on the
whistle as soon as he got, but it
wasn't till he got home, and went
in the bathroom and bolted the
door on the inside, and watched
himself in the mirror as he blew,
that he realized that the whistle
was magic and was made from the
tusk of the biggest elephant in
India.
He blew, and at first he thought
he imagined it, but there was a
sound of soldiers and people run
ming from everywhere to obey his
commands. Then he blew again,
and though he couldn't see it, out
in the street the traffic stopped
and waited till he gave another
blow for it to go on again.
HIS GREAT THRILL
A third time he blew, and In
dians from India came running up
to the outside of his house and
knelt in the dust waiting for
Michael to come out and give
them orders.
This gave him a wonderful feel
ing, because his brother Patrick,
who was six, and went to school
each day, was a magnificent per-
son who exceiled Michael in every
single solitary thing, including 60
ing to school first, and being big
ger, and wearing larger pants,
and getting everything ne wanted
because he was strong enough to
take it.
But the whistle made Michael
feel magnificent. too. He would
have to conceal from Patrick that
it was a magic whistle. If Pat
rick found out, he would take it
from him, as he always took every
thing he wanted.
However, Patrick did take the
whistle. Michael was in the bath
room blowing it at 8 o'clock, and
he forgot to close the door prop
erly, and Patrick walked in and
saw Michael in front of the mirror,
with the whistle in his mouth.
blowing it, and holding his hand
up and stopping traffic all over
the country, and then taking it
out of his mouth and saying to
some people, Move on there now
Move on there!"
At once, Patrick saw the won
derS of the whistle, so he took it.
In another half hour he started
for school, and the whistle went
with him. Michael told mother
that Patrick had it, but Patrick
said he didn't know what Michael
was talking about, he never even
saw any old whistle.
Mother told Michael she would
take him to the store and get him
another whistle, exactly the same,
from the same card, but Michael
said, sadly, that no other whistle
would do. and explained to her
that by mistake a magic whistle
had got on to the card, and it was
real ivory, and the others were all
limitations, and there was only one
whistle like that in the whole
world.
PATRICK LOST 1T
When Patrick came home, at 4
o'clock, mother tackled him about
1t, because Michael had been in
tears nearly all day over his loss.
And Patrick said all right he had
taken the whistle, but he was sad
to say he had lost it. Mother could
not argue with him, and anyway,
she had an appointment to take
both of them to the dentist at 4::3O
to see if their teeth were all right.
And at quarter to S, Just TO
show that Providence is sometimes
kind to the small and weak as
well as the big and strong who
take whistles, Michael had two
teeth pulled out and Patrick had
no teeth pulled out at all. Michael
was in a seventh heaven of de,
light. The dentist very kindly
gave him the teeth and mounted
them for him on a small square
of pink wax.
Michael wondered how many
people in the world had anything
as wonderful in their pockets as
he had on that lovely square OF
wax. All the way home he kept
taking it out and looking at it.
The teeth, of course, had a tire
mendous value from a monetary
point Of view. Patrick, who hat
had baby teeth fall out all oS
: themselves, had sold his to tn.
: fairies for a dime apiece.
You simply write a letter tt
them and offer them the tootF
and put it under your bed wher
you go to sleep and in the morn
ing they have taken away Uht
tooth and the letter and left II
cents.
Mother showed Patrick all abou
it. She reminded Michael as h
undreSsed for bed, but he knev
already. He could not write yer,
well, so he had her write the let
ter for him, and she pointed ou
that there were two teeth, NJ
one, and that they were mounte,