Chase Me!

One autumn afternoon, the Montreal writer Paul

Xylinides was playing outside with his niece when she

called out to him to chase her. "If I catch you," he

warned, "I shall turn you into a princess!"

"No!" she answered, as she ran, "I don't want to be a

princess!" but it was too late, for her uncle had already

caught her.

"Remember, my child, imaginary days don't grow

beneath trees - you have to climb up and pluck them."