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Show 1 JESSICA'S LILY Jessica had a dream. It was to have a lily to care for and love until it grew to be tall and graceful with a beautiful white blossom blos-som on top, then with her own hands take it to church on Easter morning and place it on the milpit step. The morning of Jessicas dih.uuj the postman left a little square box addressed to her. Inside, wrapped in many folds of tissue paper, she found an add looking object, something like an ill-shaped onion in layers of dried brown leaves. Outside the box, these words: "Easter lily bulb." What a bagpxrL ?he was'. She - ' " -ist's and had a pot then with careful, "', s patted the bulb jt awa dark, cool closet. ' By ana 1 tiny green sacks commenced U. jw on top that swelled larger and larger, until the green case began to crack and the very night before Easter Jessica had four beautiful sweet white lilies. Now all that remained to fulfil the dream was to carry it to church, no easy task for a little girl like Jessica, but early in the morning she started out, hugging it close in two stout, ' loving little arms, that often ached under their beautiful burden. Once j she set it down on the sidewalk to rest her arms.. She pulled the paper,, away from the top and looked into the "blossoms.. They looked to her like beautiful white, gold-throated bells. She felt sure they were a set of flower chimes, and when the breeze set them swaying gently, she imagined imag-ined she could hear the music. But the tapping on the window op posite was not imagination. Jessica was a little -frightened. Then she saw the girl. ; "Won't you let me look at K, just a minute?" the girl asked, in a thin, high voice. . . - Jessica lifted the lily and carried it across the street; then shebraced it up against the rickety fence. "You may smell it if I can come in a minute." she said. There was a cry from the girl. "Oh! granny! hurry! hurry!" and the next minute Jessica found herself in the bare little room, and the lily set on the floor and the poor, misshapen mis-shapen mite of humanity bending In awe over it. Finally she leaned lr.ck in her chair with closed eyes and said: "It must be right from heaven!" "I will give it to you," she" said, moving it yet nearer the girl. "I guess God will see it here quick as he would in church." After service Jessica and the minister min-ister walked down the street, hand in hand, and she told him about the girl j and the lily. He was silent, so silent she thought he was offended. "I am sorry if I did wrong," Jessica Jes-sica said. "But she was so poor and sick, and "Wrong?" he said. "Why, my child, you placed that lily on the very topmost step of God's throne!" Jessica gave his hand a happy little squeeze, and ner feet would skip, for the world is such a beautiful place when one's dreams come true. It was Easter Sunday. The streets |