Milford News | 1928-09-28 | Page 9 | Fig Tree's Lesson

Fig Tree's Lesson Once upon a time, there was a house surrounded by a pretty yard in which grew a large fig tree. A family moved Into this place, and the mistress soon saw that It was the playground of many beautiful birds, who visited it daily. When the figs began to ripen, the very air resounded with music. The mistress of the house made herself very unhappy by picturing the hlrd as greedily eating all of them and leaving none for her, and one morning she went out to the tree and saw that one of the first and finest of the ligs. which she had wanted for her own. had ripened and the birds had eaten a hearty meal from It. At first she was very resentful; but when she calmly thought the situation over, she came to the conclusion thnt the figs belonged by right as much to the birds us they did to her, and she was content to share the fruit with them. Day by day so many figs rip ened that besides what the birds ate, she had more than she could use. She made preserves and then had still more which she gave to a neighbor, wid was always thankful for (his lesson les-son from the fig tree.