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Show W Daddy 5 Ep4 tveiiig fairy Tale (jyVEY GRAHAM BONNER ccrmwn it oulu" mwh wmo THE CLOUDED 8ULPHUR "Tho Clouded Sulphur Is n strnngo nnmo for u butterfly," snld Daddrf "but such Is tho .. - name of a butter. fly who has sent 'Atiw you his story to Wm bear. And you vUM? know him ver y&'D we'1' cvcn tn0UKh &jg!S n's i"mo may not fP "95gf sound familiar to you. II o 1b 4 small .yellow but xrfjl terfiy, very pret- M(gkg ty and dainty SWj with dark mark- lVEKrrisf J n,K3 nnmm1 the lS2ss? & edges of his ' 5 5c wings. 'I suppose AjftseS he Is called the br&?5lk$if Sulphur Butterfly because he Is yel- "We Lovo the low and sulphur Clover." Is n yellow-col or o d substance. Perhaps ho Is called tho Clouded Sulphur Sul-phur because of tho markings around his wings Uko clouds In a sky. I don't renlly believe ho knows Just how ho got his fnmlly name, but ho does know that he Is dainty and small and yellow In color and that ho loves the honey from cloer." '"I mn u harmless little butterfly,' said Mr. Clouded Sulphur, 'and I nm very fond of tho world nnd so nro all the members of the family. We will nov. or fall to como back each year, for wo lovo the Acids nnd tho countryside. We love tho clover better than anything any-thing and tho clover Invites us to many charming dinner pnrtles and luncheons nnd breakfasts. People mny not go out much to breakfast, nnd they mny very seldom hnvo breakfast break-fast parties, but we go to breakfast parties and hnvo n delicious tlrao of It. "Perhaps I should soy wo have a very good time of it, but still we do have a delicious time of It, and I might ns well be truthful. We're fonder of honey thnn wo are of talking. talk-ing. Oh, yes, honey Is better than talking. One can't swallow words, nl-thought nl-thought somo people do talk as If they were trying to swallow them. Perhaps Per-haps they ore trying to seo If the words nre good to cat. I might try thnt myself If I were n talker. But I'm not a tnlker as n rule, nnd so I won't try eating words. And, too, I know ono really cannot ent words. So why should I waste my tlrao trylnj to do something that I know Is Impossible Impos-sible to do? It would bo very foolish, Indeed; very, ver: foollBh. "'I wonder If people who try to swallow their words nre trying to find out If there Is nny honey In worda Perhaps they are. One cannot tell, or nt least a butterfly cannot tell. " 'To bo sure, honey Is a word, but then It Is n delicious drink too. How I love tho word "delicious." It make mo think of honey nnd .t thought of honey Is very pleasant. "But ns I said before I nm n very harmless llttlo creature. Some of mj relations are far from harmful. Bui tho birds tnko care of that. They nro the ones to look out for that. I am not harmful; no Indeed. 1 nm ai harmless n llttlo buttarlly a I can be. Mother Clouded Sulphura luy thelt eggs upon clover loaves, which hatch out Into llttlo green caterpillars, who nibble at the leaves. Yes, from bnby. hood, or perhaps T thould say eaten plllorhood, we're . . always fond of JA clove.'. TV rl 'But no ono . jtuW must think that cWTd we only enre for SSSmeZX' 1 clover, for we llKo MgW.am other flowers, too, " ni& ' I and wo like to sip .U.1 llttlo drinks of JfS7 full water from tiny fP'sWbmyL " 'Yes, after 7SII$ we'vo had good I j&5i?tL , meals we sip cool- jji "KWlH lng sips of wnter. luj' fcfiflFCA V And when you see ITAitty rlf"' n us about wo hope RUli) U. J(lA (I you'll know who Nmiwu hu we are, nnd you'll "Little Green Cat see ulcnty of us, erpJIara." nil summer long. Wo bellevo In arriving early und Btny lng late, for by Jolng thnt we can hnv such n very, very good time. Yes, w lire pleased with the world and wltV a long, long summer time, so we com Into tho world nnd we stay a lnnj) time, too. But now I must be off nnd hnvo some meals from n number the flowers who've Invited mu to call today. I must be off for my culls!"' |