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Show FABLES, FOR THE. DAY , .Making Go6d, t The Pino Nut looked up nt the big45. Pine Tree nenr which It Lay In- aV brown. Cone; and, remarked:', - "You're pretty Hlg ns .you Stand, i there, hilt I hnvo moro Life anil - Strength In mo than you have,"' ,y "What do you Mean by'Tho, Httli, Seed?" asked tho Tree. "Simply that you havo been Struck by Lightning and Lost soma 'ot your Limbs, your Hoots havo been Ilurned' by FIros, and you won't Xnat many ' Years; while I havo tho Wholo Life ot a Perfect Tree Inside md." "So you think," snld tho Tree, "that becauso I have had' somo Misfortunes Mis-fortunes nnd may not havo a Hundred years to Live, you nre moro' Valuable." Valu-able." r ; "That's the' Idea," responded the Nut, enthusiastically. "I havo the Power to bo a Hotter Tree than you ever can bo, nnd thoreforo I'm Vortb, more to tho World." "Well," remnrked tho Treo,' as a Uoy picked up tho Nut and began to eat It, "It seems to Mp that thero Is One thing that Is AVorth More than Power and Ability, and that Is, to Mako Good." Tho Portal. |