Show ky THE BLUEBIRD IS BLUE pretty legend of her sympathy fori fon christ as he hung upon the cross the friendship between the robin and tho bluebird Is a accounted for in an old legend says the ave marla maria when the robin filled with pity for or his buffering lord bore him drops of 0 water as he hung upon the cross a little brown bird thought oh I 1 too love him why can 1 I not do something to ease his pain so she made a cup out of a leat leaf and filling it with water met the robin and gave it to him so BO that he would not have to fly so far ar as ho he returned for more of 0 tho the cooling liquid and when at last he be came with news that his bis lord was dead she bathed his bis bleeding breast that was wounded by the cruel thorns then the master of birds said to the little brown bird because you loved the lord aud and would have helped him you shall henceforth wear a coat the color of the one his mother wears and that Is why this little brown bird has ever since then been a little blue bird and la Is never tar far away from the robin when he comes bomes in the spring this will be something to think 0 of when a bit of blue flies between you and the sun and you know our ladys bird has come |