Show I GREAT BARE BAltE FACTS TIlE TIE Great Tre Trees In n the forest stood A naked and bare for Old Winter had come and ond taken away their beautiful colored dresses that Mistress Fall had hud given them In place of their pretty summer clothes clothes But Dut th the evergreen trees were still dressed and they cried Shame I J to the tall bare trees as os they shivered In 10 the winter winds At first the Great Trees did not notice the evergreens and oDd held their poor naked heads high with pride above their green gowned neighbors but It was no use pretending for as the days went by the evergreens e became ht nu 1 t I Imore d fo sea more scornful and at ut last the great trees had to acknowledge to each cach other that they were a sorry sight It Is no use looking for Summer She went to sleep long Jong ago said one ODe tall toll tree and Mistress Fall Is too far away now to hear our call and ond Old Winter has no pity In his cold herd hard he n heart art rt f for ifs us We iVo might ask the help of ot the Forest Gob Goblins liDs said another tree 1 They come out on moonlight nights before the snow comes and they may I know of some one who will help us If they cannot I cannot understand why the evergreens evergreens ever ever- greens should be bo so disagreeable They have hove never been so before spoke up another tree Why I can tell teU you brother replied replied replied re re- re- re plied a very ery tall taU tree Those evergreens evergreens ever ever- greens have Just grown up and ond they are so proud that they can cnn see more than they did last year that they are talking a about out everything they see The first moonlight ht night that the Forest Goblins appeared the Great Trees told them their troubles and though the Goblins said they could not help them they promised to see the Elves whose queen was a friend of ot the Queen of the Fairies This s seemed emell a round-about round way to the Great Trees to get help but there was nothing else to be done and so they had to wait walt The Great Trees had about given up hope and the evergreens grew more scornful every day but one night when all was still and und the wind was cold and ond blustering a little fairy alighted on the tho topmost branch a great bare tree She had ridden to the forest on the tall tail of Blustering Wind without his knowing a 0 thing about It and as he passed along oft off she Jumped I 1 have hove a n message for tor you from my queen she whispered to Great Tre Tree The Fairy Queen will wUl help you and she gives you ou her promise that soon you shall all aJl outshine In splendor the ever evergreens reeDS that scorn you As Old Blustering Wind passed again the fairy caught at his trailing tall toll talland talland tolland and off she went but the Great Trees felt happier and they waited and oDd watched Then one moonlight night when the evergreens looked up at nt the great grent bare trees their cries of Shame I froze before they left their branches For Por Instead of being naked and oDd bare the Great Grent Trees were Vere clothed In gorgeous splendor such as us the ver reen had hud I never beheld TIle Tae Fairy Queen had hod sent the snow v fairies and aDd Jack Jock Frost Prost to fo dress the Great Trees They wore diamonds and their long branches were powdered with sparkling frost and there here they stood like great greut kings dressed dressell In white and ond silver sliver The evergreens c were certain that the next day when the sun Bun came come out I the Great Trees would be naked e again but they were more wonderful In their splendor as the sunlight fell upon them And no more did the evergreens cry Shame I to the Great Grent Trees for all through the winter did the Fairy Queen lueen keep them dressed In their sparkling clothes Copyright |