SALLY SOAPBUBBLE AND HER SILVER FISH


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The Silver Fish began to go down through
the air until they stopped right beside the pails.
Then Sally got out and filled her Soapbubble
boat with them until there was just room
enough left for her to squeeze in.
Then the Silver Fish went up and up until
they were in the Northern Lights again. There
he stopped and Sally got out and began to fill
the pails. She found a solid spot to stand on, and
as soon as each pail was full she stacked it in
the boat.
She dipped one pail right into the glittering
red light and filled it. Then she put the cover
on and dipped another pail in the yellow light.
When the pails were all full she got back in and
the Silver Fish pulled the boat back to the
forest where the Frost Elves were.
When they saw her coming they all cheered.
“We’ll get through in time if you help us,”
they told Sally. “We were afraid it would be
time for the leaves to drop off before we had
them painted.”
So all day Sally and her Silver Fish made
trips back and forth for paint. Once some
paint rubbed oif onto the boat as it sailed
through the Lights, and by the time night came
it was irridescent with beautiful, clear colors.
“I don’t care,” Sally told the Silver Fish, as
they made their last trip back. “It makes it