Charley s Wonderful Journey. 



''Won't you stop a moment and let me 

 get down?" said Charley, "I can't hold on 

 much longer." * * * * 



"Let me go," said the rabbit, and he gave 

 a kick and jerked himself out of Charley's 

 hands, and there stood Charley and saw a 

 little rabbit running away. 



" Aren't you glad that I looked at you 

 through the right end of the telescope 

 again?" said Ethel of the golden locks, 

 laughing. 



Just then the dog came running up, and 

 Ethel of the golden locks looked at him 

 through the small end of the telescope, and 

 he turned, oh, much smaller than a mouse, 

 and Charley ran and picked him up and let 

 him stand on his hand. 



''Isn't he a dear little dog?" said Charley, 

 and held him up to his face, and the dog 

 kissed him. "Will he always stay small 

 like this?" 



"Yes," said Ethel, "until I look at him 

 through the other end of the telescope 

 again." 



Charley placed the little dog gently in 

 his jacket pocket, and he and Ethel of 

 the golden locks went hand in hand across 

 the meadows; then their feet left the ground 

 and they glided on together through the 

 air, not flying or walking you know, but 

 only gliding without effort. 



Then Charley noticed two white doves in 

 front of them, and when he looked closer 

 he saw that he and Ethel were sitting in a 

 fairy chariot, and the doves were harnessed 

 to it. 



Then he saw water, and the next minute 

 they were in the middle of the lake, far 

 away from land, and their chariot was a 

 boat, and two white swans were drawing it 

 swiftly over the smooth surface. 



Soon they saw a beautiful white castle on 

 the shore of the lake, and Ethel bent down 

 and said "Kiss me, Charley, this is my 

 home, and I must go in now." 



Charley threw his arms around her neck, 

 and she bent over him and kissed him, and 

 Charley awoke, and his mother was bending 

 over him and he had his arms around her 

 neck. 



"Get up, Charley,'' said she, "the sun is 

 high and breakfast is ready." 



"Where is she ?" asked Charley, sitting 

 up in bed and looking full of astonishment. 



"Where is who?" asked his mother. 



" Why Ethel; Ethel with the golden locks, 

 she was giving me a kiss, and then I awoke 

 and it was you. W^ill she never come 

 again?" 



" It is my turn to keep you now," said his 

 mother, "and kiss you, but perhaps by and 

 by, when you are grown up to be a man, 

 your Ethel with the golden locks will come 

 out of dreamland into our every day world, 

 and kiss you when you wake in the morn- 

 ing." 



"But I brought something back," said 

 Charley, as he sprang out of bed and ran to 

 his jacket. A look of blank disappointment 

 came over him as he searched both pockets 

 in vain. 



"I put him in myself," said Charley, and 

 he told his mother all his night's adventure^ 

 But there was no dog there. 



"Never mind," said his mother, "you can 

 look at Fido through the wrong end of the 

 telescope." 



"That's no good," said Charley, "with 

 our telescope; when you stop looking he's 

 as big as ever, but with "Ethel's telescope 

 you keep small until she turns it and looks 

 at you the right way again. A cat may 

 find him and eat him for a mouse, or if he 

 got lost in the fields, some of those ants 

 may get together and kill him. Oh my ! 

 mamma, aren't those ants fierce and cruel 

 if they only catch you when you're little; 

 and he was such a dear little dog, I wouldn't 

 like to have the ants eat him." 



Mamma laughed softly. 



C. F. Amery. 



