Show I I e e I LITTLE EVERGREEN TREE day when the sun was shIning ONE O warm and bright and the peach trees were Oiled with beautiful bloss blossoms blos- blos s ms a little evergreen tree growing close by by- Its big mother tree began to tol J cry I II I want waft a pretty pink gown like the peach trees It said I am tired of this old green dress and the tho peach trees trees make Inake fun of me because I never wear anything else Dry your eyes my may dear said the mother tree and I will tell you yon some some- thIng Little evergreen shook Itself softly In the br breeze eze and trIed to hold up It head hend but Its heart was so heavy with l M Her Green Gown Peeked Through Making a Beautiful Picture unhappiness It could do little but look at the th pretty peach trees In theIr new pink gowns and wish It had been lucky enough to have grown up a peach tree Instead of an evergreen You wear u a beautiful shade of green saId the mother tree and It never fades but through all the wInter winter wIn wIn- ter you are dressed while the peach trees and the other trees as well are naked t ked and bare that something for which to tobe tobe be thankful 1 Wait until the fall days duys come and November wInds shake the leaves from all the other trees and then you wIll know that your thIck beautiful green wears better than the gowns worn by those you now envy envy Oh I dont don't care said the unhappy lIttle tree I want a pInk gown now I 1 am ashamed ot of thIs old green thIng and the peach trees toss theIr heads every time they see me There Is something else I have not G the mother tree land and w oa oare bre so discontented I Iau if au l ett t oia a surprise for tOI you It ld no hi It worth hayIng having now But thIs much I will tell you When the wInter comes the peach tree willbe will I be envious and not you They wont won't core care for this old green dress pouted the little evergreen I heard them sa say It was too bad I never had a change but had always to wear the same green dress I 1 dont don't mean your our green dress said the mother tree though It willbe will be beautiful then But Dut something else they will not be able to wear you will have ha and wear like a queen That was all the mother evergreen told the little tree but though It was tas not happy all summer It spent part partI I ot of the time tr trying to guess what It t would wear when wInter came that would snake the peach trees envious It Is cold mother said the little lIttIe i evergreen one night The wInd Is blowing all the leaves from the peach trees those that hung on to the last but but butI I do not wear anything different from the green gown I wore In the summer I Walt and see my chIld replied the mother tree The winter days are not here yet et But ono one morning the tho little evergreen ever ever- green grcen awoke to find herself wrapped In a beautiful ermine coat her green gown peeking through In places and making n a beautiful picture but shedid she sho did not know how beautiful until she heard a bare tree sigh and then whIsper whIs- whIs per to another naked tree Look at that beautiful ermine coat the evergreen evergreen ever ever- green tree Is wearing Yes the other sighed we wear dainty gowns In the summer but the evergreens wear their ermine and diamonds diamonds dia- dia monds in n the wInter like kIngs and queens How nice It must be to be an evergreen tree Our naked limbs will not hold a coat as theirs do At last little evergreen tree was as happy Somebody envied her and the next summer when all the peach trees were wearIng theIr pretty pink frocks she kept her thoughts on her rIch coat of ermine that she wore In n the wInter and nil all the other trees wIshed they could wear Perhaps like the little evergreen tree some of us do donot not apprecIate the things we have because we we- we weare are too busy wIshing for something that belongs belongs be- be longs to others when our own possessions posses posses- may be worth far more by McClure Newspaper Syndicate |