DECEMBER 31: Little Pitchers
Fairy Grant-Your-Wishes was calling on a little girl named Janet on New Year’s Eve after Janet was in bed and asleep. For the Dreamland King had arranged this.
“I have come to grant your wishes,” the Fairy said.
“Then I wish,” said Janet, “that my mother and daddy would know that it hurts me dreadfully when they say that ‘little pitchers have big ears.’ I feel so much in the way then. And when people come to visit and say that ‘children should be seen and not heard,’ and ‘I used to know you when you were so high.’ Oh, dear, I wish they wouldn’t say such things.”
“I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” the Fairy said, “I will ask the Dreamland King to tell your mother and daddy that it hurts you to be told these things. And I will get the Dreamland King to tell as many other people as he can, too. And he will send his messengers right out by the direct route from Dreamland to Grown-up-Land.”
THE END