Show I e ari a n tOrY Martha Martin Martn 1 LARRYS LARRY'S HOLIDAY t HY illy Y to be sure cure wasn't so very d. d Neither was he so BO very knew th that t better than tar le re was wa very far tar from being a ar r Once some one had called him y F. It had hod been very ery hard to From tears nut But ears tears were ere so baby So he had kept back his but he e had hod felt very angry In In- 7 1 was waR n all 1 of ot five years old And And straight sturdy boy he was lie liedo liedo liedo do so eo many things and he wasn't of anything Not of ot a single singlee be e sure there were some things have cared to meet so 80 as asIve the Ive that he heas was as not afraid ld of ot for there were some things and andS S r rhe ht he Next Few Days Larry Was Wat Very Very Busy creatures no one wanted to torace race face to face toce had bad no desire to have a n hand hand- ig tg acquaintance or shaking paw as u perhaps It should be with a lion for tor example and Less ess so with a tiger or a leopard 1111 wildcat t. t wouldn't have haTe cared to have caught far tar from home In a bad bader baden er en and lightning storm but bat then being cowardly apart from all this Larry was boy bore Only a holiday was g C along along on on the very next Monand Mon Mon- an and Larr Larry knew tl tle e holiday was wasIs Is I. at all lie rather wanted to he holidays holiday were all partly his arse they were to be shared by lots and lots of others but he too wanted Ills Iris own particular little sh share re There was Lincoln's birthday and there was Washington's birthday birthday- and the tile Fourth of ot Joly and Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- giving day and all nil of these Larry Lorry fell fella a n share In for tor was he not on nn Am Ameri Amerl American rl can cnn boy And Aud does not every Amerl Amerl- can boy feel teel a share In these holidays Christmas day day ot of course he felt a apart apart apart part cf of Christmas Christinas day and a big share In the day Itself Just itself just as all boys and girls feel that they belong to that most wonderful of all days But Dut the coming holiday holiday t It was not Dot Larrys Larrs Nor had It anything to do with Larry The thought of ot that bothered bothered both both- ered him He lie wished somehow It II could be different lie He had asked his father tather what Labor day meant and aDd his father tather bad told him that lint It was a n holiday set apart as asa asa a n day day of reco recognition to the tire laboring class lie He had not quite understood what that meant but his father tather had explained that it meant a day set aside In honor hOllor of ot there being such a class cluss as a laboring class closs showing that to belong to the laboring class was something dignified and to be re reo specked Larry Lorry knew then that it was useless for tor him to have a share In n this holiday holl holi day day day-a a real reul real share In It at least But Dut then a n happy thought came to him l For or the next few tew days Larry was very very cry busy Every one ODe thought he was busily playing and making mud pies and such but not nt at all oil And on the morning of ot Labor day they knew what Larry had been do do- Ing lie He led his father tather and his mother moth moth- er and his grownup sister and his hb old fourteen old eor brother to the ver very far tar corner of the garden which had always been set aside as Larrys Larry's mud pie playground There he showed them a tiny Uny garden garden gar gar- den set out with paths and borders of pretty pebbles Growing In the garden garden gar gar- den were ferns terns which Larry had transplanted from the woods and a tiny red geranium stood proudly In n a little bed by Itself It had come from Larrys Larry's nursery flower pot You see he said I wanted to have a n holiday today today today-I I mean I wanted wanted want want- ed to have a right night to to the holiday as daddy talked about laborers having so Ive I've labored too It was rather a ahard ahard ahard hard word to to say but he managed It wellAnd wellAnd wellAnd well And now DOW he turned to his family dont you think I can have a little share In n Labor day too too too-a a real little share And his family said Yes Yea and I 1 think you'll agree with them tool too I |