ELSIE.

6 LHEY were delighted, the shadow people, for all their
lives long they had been trying to attract notice,
and now in the heart of a great city, on this New
Year’s Eve, they were to be seen more plainly than
ever before; and, strange to say, as is the case so often in a big
city, the night was to become their play-time rather than the

 

day.
“Qho! Mr. Sun,” laughed one little wizened creature,
dimly seen under a tree, “we do not need you now to show
us off. You may get angry, and hide yourself whenever you
please, we do not care.” |
“Aha! Mr. Sun,” said a graceful, swaying figure that
danced up and down on the walk, “I can dance to-night too, if
I wish, and not depend upon you, nor the moon either.”
Then the shadow people twisted themselves and poked out
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