Show THE CONCERT the blue fairies were all over the tops 0 the hills said daddy and there were same fairies about who etere in lobely purple too they changed their costumes from one color to another as they placed which was done by the balry quien waving bet wand about they wore pink and lavender and then rose and at last chev wore yellow and the cloud fairies changed their costumes loo as they were nil being aa gay as they could at the top of the hill which was near where the cloud fairies and the mountain fairies were having such a good time there was a red house which was surrounded bf trees and wild flowers and big balla rising behind it and all about were the cloud fairies and he mountain fairies there was a little bungalow below the bouse and there stood ganv wild asters and goldenrods golden rods which were looking their best the queen annes lace was there too and so were some of the thistle family A log was burning in the fireplace at the back of the room which could be seen through the bungalow win dows and the sparks were telling facto ries to each other the bungalow was hidden by a little group of trees tor it was below the bill where the red house stood A few dumach sumach leaves were beginning to turn red and surrounding a brook nearby there were daisies and buttercups butter cups which laughed and said we are around here too though this our time of bear but when the whole country Is so beautiful we can not help but be around too and see what Is going on so here we are around this brook where some of the red leaves on the vines which creep about show that it Is almost alie autumn and some of the grass Is bravn and there are wild asters it Is different from the way it was when our brothers and sisters vere here farst this year and soon the brook will change again and there will be ice over it how beautiful nil the changes are so daddy continued the flowers and the fairies and the leads and nil the things of the country talked and chatted soon they all were quiet for they began to hear alie opening tune of the great concert and then all to beat time stopped and listened for upon this night all of the little creatures were going to sing led by the crickets chorus there was a steady bound of the singing and buzzing of the little creatures there a moment of silence always it part of the chorus stopped for a moment the others took it up so that there was a concert throughout the whole evening they had boon singing now on every evening but on this night all of the singing was to be especially fine for every creature had been asked to sing their very for the greatest of alie great september concerts alie leaves whistled and rustled and sang in their low voices and some of them blew little tunes as they w hh tied into the face of old mr ind and sometimes the apples dropped to the ground as though to beat time the very big grasshopper with the yellow wings who looked like a butterfly when flying but like a grasshopper when still was making the sound he considered ao fine like an airplane and he was buzzing and his wings were swishing I 1 the locusts with the long wings and little legs were rubbing their wings together and making music all through the day the bugs had been talking they had been saying that they lived in one part of alie conn try which was really wild it as away from any road and no aitoro allea could be heard from where chev were they had chatted all daiy diy lon and the birds had sung and there h id been a constant noise of little hlll creatures and no noise of train or autos and only the voices of alie farni er and his wife and of the children were the only voices heard and the woodchuck family bad chuckled over the nice home they ind and this evening you see the greatest of all great concerts way given 1 concert of joy over alio coun to eliere the voices of the little wild creatures could be heard rather than modem sounds burh at toots A |