The Tiny Folk
(A real alnry of real children for very young children)
Sunset glowed in the western sky. The last golden beams of the sun stretched long shadows a- cross the lawns and fields as it said goodnight to this part of the world. and hurried on to waken the sleeping children of far away eastern lands.
"Come now, Laurie. the sun has disappeared. and it is time for you to do the same." called Mrs. Page as she paused on the hack steps to enjoy the beauty of the sky.
Laurie came slowly tiiwarrl her. looking back to see if Susan were going in too. He \\as tired, but he did not want to be going tn hed if the other children were out playing. Susan ran in her own back door. so Laurie was satis- fied.
After a lunch of bread and milk. he scrubbed his face and hands. "Oh, see, l\‘loinm_\'. the wa- ter is Just as brown as can be. I did not realize my hands were that dirty." he giggled.
"Just think how that might mark up your clean sheets if you went to bed uithout washing. Now you see why I always tell you to wash before bed." said his mother
Laurie brushed his teeth. then undressed. He walked over to stand at the open window and look out at the given fields now growing dusky. From the orchard he could hear Mr, Rubin Red~ breast singing happily. Then from the marsh across the field he hear a clear shrill song of spring, peep. peep, peep.
"M0"lm.Y. come here and listen. What. is it that's siiigiiig“ he ask« ed.
"Those are the toads singing down by the marsh." explained his motlici.
"Why are they flH'.\’ll there?“ Laurie wanted in knuw
“They ucnt lllPt'f‘ in lay their eggs in the water." answered his mother.
“Aren't they fonlish"' laughed Laurie. "Whoever heard of laying eggs in the water? The hens 1.; Uncle Art's have nests of straw for their eggs"
"That is quite right for hens." ii: mother replied. "But frogs and toads are different. Each spring they go to prints or streams to lay their eggs. These eggs look lust like beads of ‘telly _]Dlrl(‘Cl to- gether ii‘! a wide string When the sun warms the water. the tiny black spot in the centre of each head gets bigger and bigger. Gradually it works its way out of the jelly, and looks exactly like a fat. little black fish. but it has no fins. only a tail. lt is very, very tiny but it grows fast. We call it a pollywng. It gets bigger and fatter until its head is quite round. Then two little front feet, just like those of a grown-up frog or.‘ toad. come. Then its back legs start to grow. From little knobs they grow longer and longer as the tall grows shorter and shorter. if you could watch, you would see the tail disappear altogether and there would be a little frog or toad that looks exactly like its mother."
"Could I go down to see them?" Laurie asked eagerly.
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The things unaided you may do, Most satisfyliig are to you. —Old Mother Nature.
This is always true. The llllllils that you do yourself. it well done. are always more satisfying than when done for you by soniebudy else. You see, they add in _\nu:' feeling of indepencleiire, and l.l’llt‘ independence is one of tlii» llll(‘Sl feeling: that anyone can have.
Things often seem easily dniip when you watch others do them When you try to do them yoiir. self it is a very different matter Tousiehead, the young kinutislier. had watched his father tateli a fish. and it had seemed the easiest thing in the world. Now ’I‘ousle- head was finding out that he hiid much to learn before he would find successful fishing an easy niaticr.
He was beginning in be dlSCOul‘- aged. Three times he had seen fish of Just the right. size which appeared to be right at the surface of the water where he could pirk them up easily. Each time he had tried and had failcd. Each time he had nifisjudged the distance 01 the fish below the siirfai-e of (‘if water. They had been too deep. Each time he had flown back to his perch on it slump, at most dis- couraaed young kiiigfisiier. But each time he had learned soineiliin: without knowing it. Each time ll“ had come a little closer to clich- lng a fish. Also, each time he had become more ismilrr with the water. The first time he had spla<li~ ed it. in his fare hr. had been re bit frighteiiecl. Now he \\'ilS lr.'.5 and less afraid of the water. In his attempt to catch a fish he had plunged wholly underwater and llflfl discovered that he wits none the worse for it.
He was getting liuii;:i'_\'. He “its getting very hiingry. l=‘a:liei- niiri mother were not bringing him fish anymore. If he was to have ii din» ner he would have to catch it. Until he could catch one, he would simp- ly get hungrier and hungrier.
All the fish seemed to have di.=~ appeared. He had been sittiniz on that stump s long time iritlimii seeing s single little fish wtwre he could try to catch it. He was iiiiiilm ing of flying to another fisliiitz gtation. He didnt want to do illls because -he was sure he would find one of his brothers and sisters, Di‘
mother. "We'll walk down to the marsh and try to find 3 few eggs or tiny pollywogs. Thcn we'll keep them in a glass jar to see if no can see them grow and change. Now, into bed with you. and good’ night."
"Good night. Mommy," answer- ed Laurie softly. In the silence of his room he listened again to that song from the marsh ~ peep. peep; peep, peep; peep. peep. It seemed to Laurie as if’ they wcrr saying. “Sleep. sleep; sleep, deep. no peep; sleep, sleep," and that is just what he did.
Page in The Guardian Monday. May 31. 1954
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’ , , flapping fish held tightly in his bill. He flew back to the stump. 1-le pounded the fish on the stump as
SS the fish was not down to deep. 5-‘ i ’
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a fish. then’ he turned it; .so as to swallow it head-first.
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D(’l'l'lllpS two or three of them there es and dinners he had ever had.
He now regarded this old glump that dinner was the best. Never
as his 0\\'l1_ special fishing stazioii, llild he tasted such ii fish. No. air.
A brother had shared it. with him never lind he tasted such a fish.
for 11 short mm-_ and then had That. was because he had caught
gone on. it himself. How he did wish that Tollslshnd hm “most decided father and mother and brothers
in go 0,, (00 when he SR“, 8 “sh and sisters had been there to see
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law He hoped the _fish woiildii‘I The t‘ll'l.‘lllnl' Cloth Hall at Hud-
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