Show r n c P f y J J E F 1 Tale ale A fir MAPy i GRAHAM BOI II R SWEET SINGING I I 1 am nm going o n to send you to the Meadow Locust Family Music where singing Is taught sold alt ald Mother Iother Meadow rea ow Locust to little Millie Meadow L eu Locust t Then your voice olee will be soft anti sweet You see she continued years ago ngo when hen we sang just as the family the Fairy alry Queen was gln giving a concert one night Locusts she said alt to us J 1 some other singers to tike dike parts which are like the lie Katydids parts hut but a little softer That will help the whole effect or of orthe the singing It will twill make It so lovely lo to have different voices different tones different sha shadings Do ye thInk you could help me Locusts Of course urse we wanted to do every everything thing we could for the lie FaIr Fairy Queen and her concert So we wo had n a huge meeting that lint very ery afternoon of all the locusts We Ve put sl signs ns around the lie meadow on nIl all the lie tall toll bla blades es of oC gras grass and tol told old nil all the locusts to come to the meeting They arrived at nt once puce Oh Oli Oh It was wasa wasa n a huge meeting There were loads ot of us Our Our one Idea was to help the Fairy Queen Then n a little locust named Lorry Larry Locust spoke up a I j have an nn Idea he lie sol said We Ke nil all crowded around Larry and asked him his Ills Idea Iden Well Kell he said If It we I nil all practice to sing quite a n soft sort song and always I Have an Ide Idea remember to keep down clown our voices so M othey the they wont won't be too loud I J think well we'll give In the Fairy airy Queen what she So we I practiced and practiced practiced and practiced right then mid and there When evening came we all nil took our places at nt the that concert concert we Is-we Is had It In lu the early e evening We e e sat at In front of the I and all nil the other creatures sat SIt around Well Vell when the Fairy Queen heard us singing softly and sweetly raid when she heard lioard our parts larts by ourselves I she was tens delighted Always sing like that she cried I yes always sing slag th those lse sweet low lowI I notes of or yours ours We e were so pleased and we I have ha always 15 kept to that lint same sallie kind of or sing sing Ins In lag The Fairy Queen liked the Katy Katydids gnu dads s ou you mustn't fur for a 0 moment think she Ehe didn't but she thought It would be nice If we had our own kind of singing our ln ln our our own little songs sons so there would be music belonging just to the Meadow lellow Locusts too that lint a good l Idea of ot Iran rys ry's rs rys ry's Mrs ll's Locust asked A most 1111 marvelous I Idea d said Millie Is that my Uncle Larry The very cry one said Mother Iother Locust I must tell you nu too now that hat the story lime Ilme Is over oyer a III little tie of if the lie his history tory Cory of or the ilic In Insect family for we mu must t have ha the history of or our people nod and all peoples or rather all nil Insects InFects In our lessons There Is the Hying nY I grasshopper col colored ored like Ilke the ground that Is the lie color of pebbles and 1111 stones lie Is 3 safe that way for Cor enemies dont don't know half the time line that liat lie he Is Iso Isa lan o a grasshopper I 1 I There Is n a very ery distant relation known own as ns the scorpion lies lie's an on old JIll terror I 1 lie He is nearer the he Crab family In reo re- re relationship I IIII however er I 1 am III glad to say So Sn you ou must learn the lie Locust manner of the singing singing the real I Locusts songs as ns they ar art lire now called |