Show TH THE SANDMAN N STORY from preceding page queen of tho garden she said and andI I will show you that that eve even this Jack Frost fellow shall fall under the spell i u of my beauty J The Big Tree and the Shrub in In vain warned her to go when tho summer summer summer sum- sum mer days were vere over but Inquisitive Rose Roso Bush w would uld not hee heed them I want to see this wonderful artist she told them and show you also that he will become my slave And so one night after all the other flowers In the garden had gone to tobed tobed tobed bed Rose Bush kept one beautiful big blossom aw awake ke and waited to see Jack Frost Over the mountains and treetops he came softly and without his Mother North Mother North Wind Wind Wind-so so that no noone noone noone one knew of ot his presence until he leaped the garden wall He espied the beautiful blossom on Rose Bush the first thing and quickly quick quick- ly he touched her soft petals with his long icy finger tipsI tips I II I knew he could not resist me thought Rose Bush though she shivered shivered shivered shiv shiv- ered under his touch but she saw too that she looked very beautiful Jn n the moonlight all frosty from his caresses I The next morning as the sun peeped over the wall Rose Bush looked so beautiful that the Big Tree and the Shrub gazed upon her with admiration You see Gee my friends he did not lea leave me to die said Rose Rosa Bush he made me more beautiful than before But the Big Tree and the Shrub I I did not reply They knew what Would happen when the sun shone I on her in a little while I By and by the warmth melted the frost and poor Rose Bush began to toI droop then her petals curled and I before night she was withered I 1 Poor Rose sighed the Big Tree she was so inquisitive she had to see for herself I am not sure whether it was her vanity or because she sho was inquisitive inquisitive inquisitive tive said the Shrub but it is just justas as we said said not not even her beauty could save save her front from Jack Frosts Frost's frosty touch I |