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Show Fciiri Tale A- -MAPY-GRAHAM-BONNER . J a nnm fivy'iii uhioh - A PEA'S POINT "Of course," said the first Pea- In i the pod, "we do not look like beans. eiuicr uo wu resemble the potatoes. pota-toes. And I doubt very much lf anyone any-one would come up to us and say : "'Well, how about having a few radishes today.' to-day.' " At that, all the oilier peas laughed. Have you ever seen a pea laugh? They fall around and sometimes roll off a table lu laughing so hard. The peas had all ueen sneueu now. "Well." "Then," asked the rest of. the peas, "why are you making such a fuss saying all you're saying." "Because," continued the first pea, "we may not be beans. We may not be potatoes. We must never be taken for these vegetables. "But and here comes my point a pea's point It is a very fine one, so don't miss it !" All the peas jostled nearer and listened. lis-tened. "You see," the first pea went on to say, "we are peas and nothing else, but we're not so much like each other as to have people say when speaking of two things just alike: " 'They're as like as two peas.' "I object to that. Just look at the little pea lying over there. "That little pea Is very small, and I am very big for a pea. "We're not just exactly alike. So I don't think people should use that expression ex-pression 'as like as two peas.'" "True, true," said the other peas. "We are of different sizes, an there are different families . of us. "We, to be sure, are called the Telephone Tel-ephone peas. A fine modern name. "But we are not all alike. There are thin ones and fat ones in our family. "We're quite, quite different." "Well," suggested suggest-ed the first pea, "let us start a brigade, bri-gade, and call ourselves our-selves 'The Different Differ-ent Peas.' "Then, we'll whisper as we're being eaten : ' 'Peas are not alike. They are quite different. There are thin ones, fat ones, de- "Peas Are liclous ones, and Alike." ' dried up ones.' "We'll just see if that won't make a difference." "A fine scheme," said the other peas. "When our sizes nre so different differ-ent we should not be thought so alike. "Truly, first pea, you have made a good point and we are all in favor of It" So the peas kept quiet for the rest of the time until they were ready to be cooked, but once in awhile one of them did roll a little bit,' saying as it rolled: "You made a good point, first pea." |