Show BEAUTIFUL OLD INDIAN LEGEND the transformation of leaves into birds still believed an indian story that has been hand ed down and Is still believed by man indian tribes Is one about the formation of leaves into birds says the kansas city journal long years ago when he world wag young the great spirit went about the earth n aking it beautiful wherever his feet touched the ground lovely trees and flowers sprang up all summer the trees wore their short green cresses the leaves were very happy and they sang their sweet songs to the breeze as it passed them one day the wind told them the time v soon come when they would have to fall from the trees and die this made the leaves feel very bad but they tried to be bright and do the basi they could so as not to make th mother trees unhappy but at laba th t me came and they let go of th twigs and branches and fluttered tt the ground they lay perfectly quiet not able to move except as the wine would lift them the great spirit saw them and thought they were so lovely that he id not want to see them die but live and be beautiful forever so be gave to each bright leaf a pair of wings and power to fly then he called them his birds from the red and brown leaves of the oak came the robins and ellow birds from the yellow willow leaves and from bright maple leaves he made the red birds the brown leaves became wrens sparrows and other brown birds this Is why the birds love the trees and always go to them to bjeld their nests and dooh looh for food and shade |