Show oo 00 THE buttercups BUTTER CUPS 1 T T IF alias BUTTI looked looke d L tt ut t iter her cousin if iq daisy vi ith en boua eyes cea site envied cm led lier her the dainty frill she wore MO aro mound tin tier her bright face and then 9 she lie is so tall anti and graceful sighed miss buttercup 1 I uni 1111 so short I 1 never shall be grace graceful gracemill fill oil oh dear will no ono one help me I 1 to 0 set get a white alte frill llo ilow silly i you ou me are buzzed a 0 bee who wils pl issing you are a 11 brig brighter kold color than voir our cousin T allsy you might not took look hlll 11 ll wearing a white ruffle rudle oil oh luit lint I 1 should I 1 know pouted ails 1 I might be prettier k I 1 I 1 1 i z 4 N 14 MI W i saw afield a field of golden cups un than cousin dalsy daisy if I 1 had a frill like tiers liers oil oh dear will no one help tile me to ret get it a white bilte frill to go with alth my bright yellow color colmorr dont be silly piped a it if nu dont stop fus you sou soon will be crying tint and will spoil your bright looks there are plenty ot of white frills in tile the field now it if you wore ono one you would spoil the picture if t gold you ou end your sisters make ila be happy and remain as you are but no miss buttercup did not wish to wear nil all yellow sellow site she fussed bussed lind fretted until she had find all of tier lier 1 sister buttercups butter cups discontented ns as well ind pretty soon they nil all began to cry saying between their sobs will no ono one help ua its to get a pretty white frill oh dear oil oh dear how unhappy we arel are I 1 now in those days the fhe gold buttercup was not a cup clip nt at lill all but just a little hat flat flower making the fields bright as they do now but not cup shaped but nothing the bees or the birds could say stopped the lite buttercups butter cupa cups from crying find and one night when the fairies and their queen were flitting through the fields and meadows they heard the lie sobs of ilia discontented buttercups Butter cups so the lie fairies fall leg stopped to ask why they cried so hard and when the but told them they wanted a white frill like their cousins inq tile the daisies the fairies ran to their queen and asked tier her to grant the butter cups wish oh but my dear cant you see what would I 1 happen said the queen tile fields would be robbed of a lower flower and mother alother nature knows best what should grow just where she has placed each golden flower hut but the fairies begged their queen so liard hard to to do something for the but that she tit at lust last vald said she would curve each petal till it formed a 11 cup clip lind then they would be butter c ups cups indeed so the buttercups Butter cups stopped crying and the fairies worked all night curl I 1 ing n each petal until the morning mr Sun sunning nitin looked down tint and saw a field of gold cups cupa where abe lint ilat gold flowers hail and been the night before still tile the buttercups Butter cups not happy they had not got the white frill they had cried for often at night they cry but now their tears do not roll from their gold colored faces the cup shaped petals hold them and mr air sunning tins has to try dry their tears before the they y can hold up lip their heads As should to ninke make the lie fields nil all goll see aee nil all tile work you have us me lie he says us lie wipes their faM wily tire are you so silly as to cry cr t white frills 0 but this makes no difference to thi buttercups Butter cups and when some you see drops of water in some otto but Butter cupa in the field you maylaw may loo law they are still crying for a frill the one worn by cousin daisy 0 mcclure |