Show y 1 E 1 1 f MISS ROSEBUSH'S KINDNESS r 4 t Little Miss us no Rosebush ebush grew by the stone wall In the garden where there were wert so many man bea beautiful flowers that grew so much taller teller than she th that t no noone one n her bet Little Miss 1 Rosebush was a pretty prett d dainty looking little bush with pink roses and If she o c-o could ld not be tall tan and beautiful she knew she hi must be bevery very swee Sweet S So she grew In her place In the garden garden gar gar- den sending out all the sweetness she could and when whet the fall days came she l leaned ned against the stone wall wan and Went to to to sleep I But one morning she was awakened by feeling something tugging at her and who should she see but a little Robin pulling off oft her dead leaves Oh OhA I am so 60 to disturb am sorry you OU ou said 1 Robin V but bu you see I 1 have hav have been M caught In a snowstorm snowstorm- I did not think hi u u it would come so 80 soon and I have ave crept into the opening In this wall to keep warm warm Just help yourself to m my leaves said Miss Rosebush I wish i could he p you to keep warm I pulled off ott ff an all the leaves that w were were left e u on the bush an and snuggled himself M Into the crack irack in n the wall un un- 1 til Ui the sn snow went aw away y and the warm sun sun came out again I ni going so south th today he he told 1 Miss s Rosebush but YOU ou may be sure I wilt will never forget forset your kindness and I shall be very early In ln the spring i to to- iu repay repa it It Miss Rosebush had no Idea how Robin could could repay W her and she did not think she had done i anything for which he should so tiO she hugged the wall coser and ad went to 0 sleep for the winter When oke In the spring she he I wa wa very much surprIsed to rind find already back from the south and he was and digging around her ber rootS rootS' with his bill in a very busy manner You s see e I am keeping my prom prom- lse Iser h chirped x I am quite sure I why you OU have never grown a as tall taIl as Yort should tl there ere are I worms around this wall Willi but this year kYOU will not be hold hald back by them I promise y Qu u. u l Every morning anti antl evening Robin e and worked to repay Miss RoseI Rose Rose- I bushs bush's kindness of ot the fall da day we 4 he was caught In the snowstorm and when June came all the flowers Lf rJ the garden sarden looked with surprise upon Miss Rosebush's beauty for she fl far faZ outgrew them all 3 i Up to th the top ot of the stone waI wall she grew and then ab above ve It and her beau pink roses were so large huge th thai everybody passing that way stopped tu admire them I. I S i Now what Pio Bo co yo you suppose happened hap hap- said Mid a big big- red Ted rosebush wh who had always been the pride of ot th tt garden Nb r one ever er noticed Us MIs Rosebush before this summer No one could tell but If It the they ha haJ haa J asked Robin he could have told th them thi r that it was kind deeds that made her so 50 beautiful But though It Is sal sa l that little birds tell a great de deal Robin did not tell what he Knew about Miss lIss Rosebush and so EO no on D In the garden sarden found out why she greso gre so tall and beautiful that summer Copyright 1920 by the McClure News Newa paper Syndicate New York City |