Show I 1 Little Lutle Legends 1 o 0 of fL Lure Lurer Luren 1 r are J Fl n MI YEn I Ie h. h Tin Till TJ J A U i SI One cla day In the summer ummer time mamma I dressed little Linda in her pretty prell new white dress and started her to Sunday school It had rained railed during the night so o oI I mamma warned wI Linda to be b- careful where she sho walked Linda IAnda hurried away for the thc church chinch bell was swinging back and forth corth callIng calling call- call I Ing the little ones to their lessons But Linda forgot to watch where pere v sho was stepping her foot Coot slipped and I II down she went right In the muddy mudd I road rondo Her prett- prett pretty new white dress was vas covered cov cov- covered ered with mud Her shoes and stockIngs stock- stock I Ings were a sight Linda tried to wipe the tho ugly black blacic mud off but that made madeI I 1 matters worse and silo she began to cry Well VeIl now what's all the crying I I for squeaked a voice at her elbow Linda turned and saw her little friend grinning at nt her side Ive ruined by b new dress in that I horrid mud I just hate hato dirt cried Linda I I Oh no you ou dont exclaimed dee I Yes Yea I do J I ha hate te It and I wish there a wasn't nt a speck l of dirt In this I j wide wide world worl sobbed Linda You like Bice the flowers and the trees I dont don't you you asked d Linda nodded her head hoad But ut what's that got sot sotto gotto to do with dirt on my dress Id I'd like to II know cried 1 Linda Just this this replied If It I J there wasn't Wl nn any earth there'd bo ho no I j I flowers or trees Why h even en the vegetables vegetables vege vegetables vege- vege tables couldn't grow prow In your our mammas mamma's garden arden And arid dirt dear Is ju Just t earth earths I out of ot place f fc c v t tb b G Y 0 J lye Tre Ruined My 17 Xe- Xe v Dress Drens I 1 dont don't care caro Id I'd ta take e the pennies from m my bank and buy some vegetables vego- vego tables said sail Linda But If there wasn't any dirt yo you'd d dhave have have- no bank or pennies either for theiron tho the Iron your our bank Is made of ot comes from the earth Copper from which h your pennies are arc made comes comel from the tho stones If It there were no trees where would you ou earth folks get bet the boards for Cor building houses and what would tl tho c cows and ana horses do without earth carth to grow the grass t they e eat cat Little finished everything everything ev you PU have comes from train the tho very ry dirt which makes s you angry Just be because because because be- be cause It has soiled Lolled your our dress Linda wiped her eyes Yes And all nit the time Ive I've said I hated dirt laughed nug ell Linda I never ne really thought ht about Ua Us being any an go good d ex except except ex- ex to dirty our clothes l Most Moat little children dont don't consider this or Im I'm sure they thoy tho wouldn't say thc they hated hate dirt replied e. e Why Vh old Mother Iother Earth Is our very best friend She's Just a great big treasure chest filled CUred with beautiful gifts for e every I one of ot u us Without her there'd be no life liCe at all Linda a looked down tut at her dress dregs The sun had dried the black mud spots ans and turned them gray Linda brushed bru hed them off and when she sho looked up again was gone After Acter that no one ever heard Linda a aay say ay sho she hated dirt And when whon she heard an any one else sa say It It she told them this tale talc as Ive I've just Jut told toM It to you ouo ou o o |