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"don't worry, my daughter Rose is very prudent and she will be careful with her wishing. What do I owe you for the shoes, for these are priceless to me already if they do what you say."

"Well, Mrs. Packracker, you don't owe me anything until you are completely satisfied with your purchase. Satisfaction is completely guaranteed or you never need pay me, for if you are not happy, neither should I be. Come back in two days and then we will discuss payment."

Mrs. Packracker couldn't wait to get home. She knew that Rose would be so happy with the new shoes and if they really didn't work, she wouldn't even have to pay for them, but she wished deeply that the shoes would add six inches or more to Rose's height. Waiting patiently for her at home was Mr. Packracker. "My dear, what have you found for our most beautiful, wondrous, blue haired daughter? Did you find what we were looking for at the emporium?"

"Why Henry," said Mrs. Packracker, "I have just the thing, wait until I unwrap these. Where's Rose? Is she still sleeping?" This of course was not the case, because just as Mrs. Packracker took the colorful shoes out of their wrapping, out came Rose from her room. "Mother, oh mother, of my most beautiful, bountiful, blue haired self, are those beautiful shoes for me?"

"Yes dear, these are indeed for you and guess what; they are growing shoes and are guaranteed to make you taller by at least six inches or more. Rose jumped up and down with such zeal and energy that the wrapping from the shoes twirled up in the air and flew around the ceiling. Rose scooped up the shoes and said, "Mother and father, I can't wait, I must try these on now and I know exactly how much taller I want to be ... six and one half inches." Rose's mother and father looked on as she tried on the shoes. She carefully strapped the shoes first to her left foot and then to her right and stood up. At first nothing happened, but then, suddenly Rose did indeed seem to be taller.

Mrs. Edith Priscilla Pequant Packracker looked on in amazement as Rose now stood taller than the tulip patterned high backed chair that was the favorite of Mr. Henry Joefeather Packracker. Where Rose stood three feet tall before, she now stood at least three and a half feet tall or more. "Oh goody," shouted Rose, "I must go and show my cousin Mary Tealily Thumbelina Jones. She will be so jealous of me when I stand so much taller than her." So off they went to the Jones's house.

By the time Rose and her

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