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dresses of the right length, and are so joyful and friendly. My instructor
especially appreciates these ladies because they enjoyed the program so much,
even though they couldn't actually see the dancers. One gift donated to the
school is a set of two huge volumes. They have many pictures in beautiful color.
One of my Scouts says to me, "Don't you think they're too big?" She
is on her way to the restroom and doesn't wait for an answer. As I try to pick
up one volume to examine it, it slips behind the shelf from sheer weight and
clumsiness. It has a soft cover, like a magazine, so that it is a little difficult
to handle, being so large. I want to sit down and look at it, but someone else
comes up to speak to me, so I don't get a chance to see what is in the volume.
(V.B.M., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio)
I am teaching how to perform Hawaiian dances. I am full of necklaces made of shining white beads. I visit a marketplace where people can bathe. I tell them: "This way you can dance and get clean at the same time." (M.T.U., Mexico City) A girl writes a letter to a man who is the keeper of a large aquarium. She writes that she has several fish in a small aquarium and that she wants to give them to a place where many children could come and enjoy them and where the fish themselves would enjoy living in a larger body of water and be able to grow better. Then this girl comes to the aquarium. She is timid and shy. The keeper asks her what she wants. She says, "I wrote you a letter, remember? I've had these fish since I was 14 years old, but now I want to give them to your big aquarium." She then frees the fish, which she has been carrying in a small tank. Suddenly, I am that girl, and I find myself standing in very blue-green water, in the middle of a huge aquarium. I let the fish go and I notice that they are all colorful tropical fish. One of the fish is a beautiful gold color. It swims immediately to a section of the aquarium that leads down some steps into deeper water. I say, "Look, he knows exactly where he should go." I follow the fish, noticing again how blue-green and clear the water is, and when I reach the deeper level of the tank I see many children marveling at the beauty of the fish. (E.F., Westmount, Quebec) I'm carrying a baby and I come to a fish tank. I look down into the tank and through an opening in the moss I see some fingerling fish. I hold the baby over the tank 136
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