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well with Rose and she stamped her foot and turned to her father.

"Father oh father, who do you see, looking taller, Mary or me?" Rose's father Mr. Henry Joefeather Packracker looked from his wife, Mrs. Edith Priscilla Pequant Packracker to his daughter and back again. He wanted so badly to tell her that she was indeed taller, because Rose is the star in her father's eye and he could deny her nothing, but ..... Rose was not taller than Mary.

Rose Abigail Hortense Packracker cried all the way home. She didn't want to talk to her disheartened mother or her dismayed father. She only wanted to be taller than her cousin Mary. Rose's mother leaned over to her husband and whispered in his ear as he drove home. "Oh Henry, I think I have the perfect answer to our most beautiful, wondrous, blue haired daughter's problem. I just saw an ad on the televiewer for growing shoes. I will get the address from the ad when we get home and go and visit their shop."

"Why my dear, I believe that may just be the answer to Rose's problem," Henry whispered back to his wife, while he tried to drive home so carefully.

Mrs. Packracker tiptoed out of Rose's room. She had finally gotten Rose to stop crying and take a little warm oleander soup. Rose would be asleep in no time. As she closed the door, she heard, "Oh, how I wish I was two feet taller than my tallest cousin." This made her pause in her steps a moment but she shook it off and said, "finally, I can get the address from that ad and go to the shop." She went into the living room to turn on the televiewer and found Mr. Packracker had already brought up the address to the 'Magical Amazing Growing Shoes' emporium. "My dear," he said, "why don't you go immediately to the emporium and see what the shoes are about. The ad says that these shoes will add at least six inches to the wearer, maybe more. There seems to be a lot of small print that I can't quite read, but I do think I see 'satisfaction guaranteed or your money back' at the bottom."

Mrs. Packracker stood outside the shop of the 'Magical Amazing Growing Shoes' emporium and hesitated to go in. What if this is not what we need? What if these shoes don't add six inches or more to Rose's height, what if ...? Rose's mother pondered over and over until she said, "oh pooh, I will just go in and see, and it can't hurt to ask." To Mrs. Packracker's surprise she was greeted by a little bitty woman who said her name was Mrs. Henrietta Osmosis Singular Smit and could she possibly

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