The little girl sat at the end of the garden
looking at the flowers, the sun
Was shining and the sky was clear blue. The
little girl Rosie had been playing with her doll, she sat chatting to her, when
she nearly jumped of the garden chair
“Did you speak” Rosie asked the doll,
She could hear giggling but it wasn’t coming
from her dolly. Rosie looked around her garden , behind her chair, then she saw
a sunflower move she slowly went up to
the flower it had gone silent, she moved the flower over. Rosie could see a
small coloured ball, she poked it with her finger and then stepped back when a
very small elf unrolled him self, dressed in very bright colours with shining
red cheeks. “Hello” said Rosie, the elf looked at her and gave another giggle,
“Hello I’m jack”
“What are you doing” asked Rosie
“Clearing up” he replied.
“Why” asked Rosie
“I like to keep the garden tidy”. “I spend my
time collecting up the petals that have fallen from the flowers, and the leaves
from the plants”.
Rosie sat back in her chair,
“I thought mum cleared the garden”.
“She does but I help when she’s not looking, I
also mend things”.
“What have you mended” asked Rosie.
“Pegs, I mend lots of pegs that fall on the
floor.”
Rosie asked Jack if she could help him, she
collected the pegs from the garden and put them in a pile on the path.
“there” she said “that should save you some
time.
“Thank you” said Jack you are very kind.
Rosie went inside to get a drink , when she
returned to the garden all the pieces of pegs had disappeared she looked around
for them , then she noticed the leaves moving in the flower bed she gently
moved them apart and saw Jack, he had one pile of pegs he had mended and on the
other side of him there was all the left over bits that he had built into a
figure rather like a stick doll, with arms and legs of pegs a face made from
tiny seeds from the garden and her hair was made of rose petals and a skirt
made from sprigs of lavender from the garden.
“Oh how wonderful” cried Rosie.
“I thought you would like daisy” Jack said to Rosie,
as he placed a daisy chain around the peg doll’s neck.
“You must be very gentle with her and keep her
out of the rain”.
“I will” promised Rosie and placed her behind
a large flower pot to keep her safe. Rosie sat starring and talking to daisy,
while Jack carried on with his work. When mum called Rosie in for tea, she
turned to tell Jack, but she could not see him she just heard him giggling to
himself.
