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Show LOVE OF MIOWN LEW ONCE on a low hrnnch of n tree In Che woods liutiK H leaf. It hud not thrived us did Its hnithcr, und w tt grew to be very lonely nnd sud. tine day It wus Kwtnpiiitf In tin wind when It heurd a Rob rljrhl under it, und looking It saw u purpUr tlowor growlns there. "Why are you so and?" asked the teiif. forgetting Its own troubles. ' You are so pretty and sweet to look upon that you should not cry." "1 am nlorie," answered Purple Flower. "Some one mine ulong and picked my sNters md did not tuke .eui, "You cunnoi ee jour own I. flinty or you would no. emiihiin, und I Hiu K'uil you vvere not mrrled off. heniuse you Imve nwde nie forget thai I uiii unhappy uuil I Khali not Ite again If I have you to look Uon." "Oh, ! am so glad If I have Iteen of j Mime use," wild the Flower. "Hut why Kliould you he uftiiappy A lien you .re m miiiiy brothers up there with yonf "Do you not nee that 1 urn not hand- some like lay brothers?" replied the j l-eaf. "I am not large and tfreeii as thev are. I am small und I am turning brown before my time." "h, hut you look beautiful to jne," replied the Flower. "You are nearer to liie than your brothers. Why I do believe you are going to drop olT. and ii' you do you will drop right down be-Klde be-Klde me." . "If 1 can do that I hIiiiII never be sorry that I did not grow xtrong and hundsonie like the oilier leaves." Kuld the Leaf. "I have wondered for n lontt time what would hemme of me It I dropped down there, vhere before I met ym It looked o dreary." Before the two little friends could nay more ulong euiue u breeze and snapped off the last link that heldlie Leaf on the brunch und down It dropped clone beside the Purple Flower, There it lay close to her und on chilly nights or when It rained Leaf covered the Flower und kept her comfortable. com-fortable. I'urple. Flower grew strong and beautiful, beau-tiful, and though Leaf grew brown and withered, it knew nothing uhout It. for did not I'urple Flower tell him each day be was the moxt beautiful leaf In the world V And she thought he was hH'unse of his greut love for her. The strong green 'eaves on the tree over them looked down und mulled scornfully ut the brown Leaf xnupxled close to his sweetheart, but the green leaves knew nothing of the Joy of a great love nor did they know that beauty that the eye run see Is not to Dropped Close Beside Purple Flower. me, but then I am so small I cannot expect ex-pect anyone to notice me. .My si tern were much more buiutlful." "Hut you are beautiful," said the be compared to that of a beautiful soul. 0 And so, when the cold days cunio und winter with his soft white blanket covered the lovero I expect they slept until Miss Spring mine und uwukened them, and there, no doubt, she found the Leaf close beside the pretty I'urple Flower. ft hr MpDuro Nwtpr Svnileita.) ' 1 . 1 i'-v |