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Show Fairi Tale l- -MAHy GRAHAM. BO.MMBR THE SPRING "The spring, the spring, the beHntl-fnl beHntl-fnl Bpring," called the birds as they went "orth for Tho Children. sessions, as they went Into their new homes In trees and bushes. They were delighted when people put suet on their trees and breadcrumbs bread-crumbs and water about, for that helped them when the marketing supplies sup-plies were low the first of the season. Before long the robins would be look-tag look-tag after their little ones, feeding them, watching them grow. How they did love their little ones! This was one of the lovely parts of the springtime. The children in the little green cottage cot-tage would sell lilacs to people passing by in automobiles and would earn money for the Fourth of July and summer sum-mer picnics and all sorts of little things they wanted. That was something they could do on springtime afternoons and on Saturdays. Sat-urdays. Later the buttercups would come out and would chat with the long green restful grass. The wild honeysuckle would whisper sweet secrets to the woods. The wild strawberry blossoms would promise delicious treats to come when the strawberries came in place of the blossoms. blos-soms. The iris flowers in the gardens would open, the sweet ferns of the hills, the sun shine, all a part of the springtime spring-time and the early summer. The rain would come down In clean, glistening, beautiful showers. It would spatter on the dog and the cat who lived in the old gray brick house. The dog did not like other cats, and the cat did not like other dogs but these two were the best of friends, eating out of the same saucer. They would lie out of doors until the rain drove them In. The ferns would lift op their little, young heads and drink of the soft, warm rain. AU this was a part of the springtime. The children would have supper on the back piazza and they would use the pretty old-fashioned table cover with the birds embroidered in the corners. The days would become warmer and the Persian lilacs would come out a little after the other lilac trees, and the whole air would be perfumed with their sweetness. Then the little birds would sing as though their throats would burst with the Joy of the springtime. Golden, white, brown, purple butterflies butter-flies would soon appear. Dolly who had once had a golden butterfly come and sit in her lap would be watching all the springtime glory. Her favorite time of the year was the springtime. Allie would be gazing at the Persian lilacs her favorites. To her they were like long, heavy blossom plumes, and she loved the exquisite lemon-colored tulips, too, so aristocratic and grand in their shape, and the red ones old friends of hers so very bright. Cows would come out of their barns and would enjoy the air and the streams and the grass. I But they would not pay much attention at-tention to special bushes and scenes such as the children chil-dren would do. The children would speak of their favorite hills and fields by name. But they would all enjoy the warmth and the sunshine. The the summer. They traveled so easily without having to carry any boxes or bags. They didn't even have to carry toothbrushes, for they never needed such things having hav-ing no teeth ! When they got North they built their nests and didn't have to bother about moving mov-ing all their pos- roosters would The Line Bird, crow their spring- Wo(jd time delight and the hens would cackle and soon there would be running around little yellow chicks, all soft and new and pretty. Everything would be perfect Even the showers would be lovely. It would all be a part of the spring and everyone felt the beauty of the loveliness of springtime. It was wonderful to be alive, to breathe the sweet, sweet air, to see the soft, soft colors, to hear the songs of birds, to speak of the new flowers daily appearing, the new birds dally arriving. arriv-ing. Yes, It was very wonderful. It was all a part of the wonder and the glory and the beauty of the spring. |