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Show 5G PRINCESS MARY'S GIFT BOOK "The-Flo Floriani! U'lmf is it?" asked her ladyship fear- somely. " It‘s a restaurant in Soho. where you get a thorough blow-out-I mean a Continental lunch-for one-and-nine." her nephew informed her. " Come on. Aunt Philippa ! " Lady Hawborough shuddered. THE LAND OF LET'SPRETEND BY LADY SYBIL GRANT "I should be delighted. Archibald Painting and Drawings by ARTHUR RACKIIAM, R,\V.S. dear, butibut I think you‘d better all go round to Belgrave Square with me. It-it would be safer." I.-LET‘SPRETEN D It was after lunch, when the two young,r and silly lovers were in the very ante-room where Kitty had overheard Lady Ilawborough's fell designs. that Kitty. holdinghis head back from her for a moment, asked: " But why does she call you Archibald ? " "Because it‘s my name. or one of 'em," he replied. "Harry Archibald Stephen Fitzwilliam " " 0h, stop, stop! I shall feel as if I were marrying,r half a dozen men. But you haven't told me ze/u/ she calls you Archibald; and has thus caused all this I . confusion ! " "0h, because a . lawyerchapwhobolted with a lot of her . . I . money was called Henry; tttttttw and, more- ' over, a bishop we've got in the family, and proud called _ "She'll have to of, is ~ Harry," said Kitty it. Do you think she ." I'm ,' ‘1 ii . perfectly " tor it's plain to Inc / ‘ ‘ , r ' Also a yacht, like Grandpapa, And lives in wigwams, tents, or huts, I wish that I could find the path. And owns a knife that really cuts. sometimes, HERE no curled on BUT some things you can never one's ever called a dunee, And you eat jam and cake find, However tired you make your at mind ; once. Or chocolate and lemon squash, Archibald." \Vhile nobody need ever wash. Like other things you never know For sure-if you try ever so. drop that name, firmly. will ?" "Ican't abear certain she L's'r as: how God turns on the OTHERS have nothing,r else to do will, if rain, Except to kiss and cuddle you‘ve captured the And fathers need not "earn their bread," So nobody can quite explain Exactly where the rainbows end. " nephew. Yes, it's a But stay and romp with you instead. And so it is with Let'spretend. ' a dear," his ear. murmured _, . Mother's lap, 01‘ sitting in my bedtime bath, But a chap my aunt's very mind she shall," he reprofound conviction; as the trump." "She's lutty, very close to a .. you ve made up your turncd. with an air of aunt as well i ' 1111.1: everybody has a car. TIIIS country is not on the map, you -. MY Father says that all his HERE are no girls: just men and life \Vith my Mamma (who is his wife) boys And mothers; all the shops sell toys; They‘ve looked; and they are very Just every one plays Hide and Old. Seek, My And Christmas happens twice a veek. father's told! 57 thirty, I've been mmw Mlm nil |