. The Tiny Folk

Pigs " The Guardian Wednesday. July 14, 1954

(A real story of real children (or very young children) I

The play house at Laurie": was a faacinating place to his play-

mates, especially Susan. Being a girl, she clearly loved to play at being mother. Anna and Lynne liked to play in there tpu. and, if Linda was allowci out it made it that much better.

This sunny morning was a bit cool alter the thunderstorm of thel evening before, so the children were quite content to play inside. With the three girls, Laurie, David Folly Chuck was worried. Yes, and Frisky all inside, the play-isir Polly Chuck was worried. Any house was really over crow?-ed. Tmothe-r with eight children is bound but lhfty did 110! Seem to mind. lto be worried. There were eightllttle

Anna had mime 3 SWVC Um Olichui-ks playing around the doorway some bricks, much like an out-iof the underground home under the doc; st&ve' slrlie, -liafd seen in it story old apple tree on the edge of the bo”' Hi i” hlmg Wm ”" ”,Old Pasture. When Peter Rabbit

By Thorton A WORRIED MOTHER

IThe most important thing 'to know. 1; food that's best to make one

fl'0W. -Polly Chuck.

lhe was quite busy frying steak for dinner. The steak was really large pieces if bark gathered from the wood pile, but you could pic- tend it was real. couldn't you? Lynne and Susan were quite taken up making little cup ciikus, They pressed the wet sand into a little

cup. thcii crircfiilly turped it out again on a piece of shingle. What pretty cakes it formed. With a tiny white pcbblc stuck in thet centre of each, they look quite llktli the fancy cakes you see in the. magazines. .

What were the boys doing? Lau-i ric had iakcn out Ginger, andl

all his time was occupied in try- ing to pull long stockings up overt thc teddy's chiibly legs. DiH'l(l,l being bait-ly tliicc. was cuiitciitl to just sit and watch it all

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"Isn't this a cosy liouscl I'd, like to live here all the tinic,", said Anna l ”Wo couldn't slccp in here, for there aren't any bcds," protcslcd Lynne l ”But we have a table We could. eat on hr-ic," liaiiric put ill I

"We nizikc bclicvc we eat these cakcs and this steak." said Anna.

”But I lllCitfl rcally eat our dinncr in hcic. I ixrindcr if Mom-i, my xvoiild lct us. I'm going to aski her tight non.” and Laurie racedi i-xcitctlly to tho hoiisc to tell his mother about his bright idea.

His miithcr limkcd at his eager face, and sniilcd. "Yes, you may eat in your playhoiise tonight. It is just as hour until supper time, so you run out to play. Illl fix your supper, then you Cali all help to take it out. Susan will have to ask her mother 1! she David may stay too."

"We're going to eat out here! We're going to (-at out herei" col-1 led Lauric as he raced back to, The playhousc, skipping high and waving his arms in wide circles.

in the house Mrs. Page got busy making up plates of sandwiches. She hiilled and washed strawber- rires and covered them with sugar and cream. From the cupboard she

and

took protty chocolate cup cakes with color it icing. and sugar cookies full of fat raisins. She

filled a pitcher of cold milk. then called the children. That was once

saw that big family for the first time he went back home to the dear Olrl Briar-patch and told little Mrs Peter about it.

Each one of them was I scparnte worry.

"Polly Chuck has seven and a half children," said Peter.

Mrs. Peter didn't see the twinkle in his eyes when he said that. iWhat under the sun do you mean?" de- manded Mrs. Peter. "Either she has seven children or she has eight. Who ever heam of anyone having half 8 child?”

that only one call was needed. They came raciiig over to carry out their ”picnic" as they called

Anna carried one plate of sand- wiches, Lynne another. Susan had dishes of berries and the spoons on a tray. Laurie carried the glas- ses while David came behind with a little basket with cookies and the cup cakes in it. Mrs. Page brought a table cloth and stayed to see that they had everything they needed.

Baby Linda stood at the back door of the house and called out to them. She wanted to go out too, but her mother decided she had better eat with her Daddy in the house. She cried R bit. but stop- ped when her own supper was placed before her. Evcry now and then shouts of lau hter from the play house drifte 'in through the open window. Mr. Page looked across the table and smiled as he said. ”The children seem to be having lots of fun. They must be enjoying themselves, if noise and laughter is any sign of a good time."

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,came carrying their dishes. Not a ici-umb was left on the plates. i "We cleaned them . all off," laughed Anna.

"We were really hungry," spoke up Laurie. i

''It was fun to eat out there," ,sald Lynne. ”We always had mud pics before, and once Baby Linda tried to eat one. but this time

fresheiis taste-gives a mce little lift waiaiu s

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Half an hour later in they'a1l '

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Peter chuckled. He was chuckling

over his own joke. "My dear. it you'll go with me to see Polly Chuck's big family, you will know what I mean. One of those little Chuclu is only half as big its his brothers and sisters. Has it runt. So 1 till say that Polly Chuck has only seven and A half t'llllCll'('ll." Mrs. Peter sniffed and turned her back on Peter. "Silly." said she. and went out to get a mouthful of sweet clover. It was true that Polly Chuck had one baby only halt as big as any of the others, a runt (IS one not so big as he should be is called. Because of his Slli'.lll six: he was

we had a real supper," ”And Frisky had a biti-

Susan added her liltlc bit.

saved a sandwich for him."

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giggled Laurie iitisi'liirviiiIi:l;.. "We thought thcy'il be good lot" his teeth.” i

”Run along then.” siiid Mrs.

Page, trying to look (lisplcasctl be-

came mun. Polly Chuck won-led nu-y min. ute she wu awake. How could aha ever manage to keep all of them out oiimischief. and especially keep

separate worry. But atirtuige to say. the smallest one was the biggest worry. You see he was pushed lc round by his brothers and slstaa. They crowded him away from the food that mother led them to. They knocked him out. All the others were growing. because all of them were getting plenty -to eat. Runty wasn't getting plenty to eat. so he wasn't growing as fast la the others. when mother nw thla she was more worried than ever. She did her best to keep the other: away from him. but she couldn't be on hand all the time to do this. The minute her back was turned. poor little Runty was picked on by his brothers and sisters who were to ,mui-h bigger. They were not mean .to him purposely. They were Just ; thoughtless. But Runty was so amall he couldn't protect himself; he l('0uldn't fight back. Never was there ll imre unhappy little chuck. And in ,so far as he could see things were illut likely to grow my better. In izict, they were likely to grow worse. I Polly Chuck saw this. and wor- ried. She was sure that soniethlm would happen to Runty, something dreadful, simply because he wun't.

"And a few of our criists tuu.",ib,g enough to look out 101- him-

self. Wheiiever she went away to ilook for ii new clover patch she livorried for fear that on he: re- ltum she would find something had

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