Show o oe e D I I THE VEA WEATHERCOCK TilE Weathercock on top of ot a n pole on the barn was swinging about as the wind blew It back and forth How tiresome you are l I said the Cock Mr Wind did It ever er o occur cur curto to you to blow your bothersome breath In another direction 1 Very ery well well gayly laughed Mr Wind that Is s the way WRY I blow but If It you do not like my way I will wilt be off oft and send my brother he blows In another direction Before the Weathercock could reply Mr Wind bustled away and ond In a few minutes his brother was there swingIng swinging swing swing- Ing the Cock another way But Dut this r I J. i Up Ju the Wind Brothers the Cock did not like Uke either Oh dear I do wish you OU tiresome Wind brothers would be off and stay a away You are so Impolite blowing this wa way and that Do you ou think I never wish to be quiet Very well replied the Wind Just lust Justas as his brother had done If you do donot donot donot not like my way I will be off but I 1 warn you It t will be a dull life without without with with- out the Wind Wh 1 brothers You do not know what yo you are asking Oh dont don't you OU bother about me replied the tho Weathercock I shall do lo dowell lowell well enough without the Wind broth broth- ers I am up here where I can see aUthe all aU the world Now run ruu along and dont don't hurry about returning for I 1 shall be glad to be rid of your bad manners So awa away went the Wind brothers to the top o 0 ol a n mountain and for days they left the finding fault-finding Weathercock Weathercock Weather Weather- cock ock to get Long Lions as best It could for of ot course it did not know that the Wind brothers made It possible for tor It to see all around the world So there it stood on the pole quite still looking only In one direction for days s 's and then one morning It sighed I wish I could see what wha t Is going on behind me we I 1 am tired of ot standing still What Is that you ou are saying asked a n misty little cloud hovering ho near I the th you wanted to be quiet Shall Shan I 1 tell teU the Wind brothers to return that you miss them and are lonely The Weathercock did not fee feel as 88 haughty as It lid did on tte th day it t dismissed dismissed dismissed dis dis- missed the Wind brothers blotters It was very meek Indeed Yes Misty Cloud It said tell the Wind brothers I wish to turn around Little l Misty Cloud Clond floated off oft to the mountain where the Wind brothers were Mere no now asleep In a gulch gutch and awakened awakened awakened awak awak- ened them Get Getup up I I It t said The Weathercock wants you to come back It Is tired o o standing still Up lip Jumped the Wind brothers with witha Ith a roar down the valley they ran and andIn andin In a few minutes Weathercock was as swinging merrily as the Wind brothers brothers brothers broth broth- ers blew It first one way and then another but never ue again did It complain complain complain com com- plain of their rude manners or that It wished to be still Though the Wind brothers did dill not make any remark a about out being sent away they blew their hardest and If Weathercocks Weathercock's till tall feathers had hind not been made of or tin it would not have had one feather left when at last the Wind brothers ran away to their mountain bed to rest 0 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate |