Show vad abis J mill F denina firx tale mahy GRAHAM FAIRIES AND vegetables one day ns as the fairies were playing in the beautiful garden and were talking in g to old mother earth they heard some little whispers down in the ground ohl oh we are so anxious to come up was one of the little whispers dear me said one of the fairies what does that little whisper mean mother earth oh that Is one of those impatient little radishes they cannot bear to 1 tay stay in the ground when the nice spring weather Is here besides they think very beautiful and that red Is so bright end and gay after the long winter of snow and the enily early spring days of slush and mud they are really very proud of themselves and now they are becoming so anxious to get up that I 1 suppose I 1 must let them very soon then from not far off some other whispers came up through the earth they were quite like those of the radishes but not exactly the same the fillies full 11 lea decided this time it was something else besides an impatient little radish whispering wo we want to come up said eald the sounds we can just see above the earth and we like the looks of everything on top of the ground our families havo have often told us how nice mr sun is and mr spring mr giant who was wag walking by rain and that when we came up and looked about us we were admired right away by real people then we were taken up and put on a lovely dish and something soft and cool put over us they called it dressing and then we were eaten up the fairies laughed hard at that for they were acre not used to hearing whispers such as then well be eaten up said in such happy tones well said the queen of ct fairies 1 I con can plainly see that the only thing for nit me to do Is to give a dinner party and old mr giant who was walking by said well you give one tor for the me radish fi felly nilly and ill give one for the lettuce family and well see which will give the party first of all this made the greatest excitement tn in fairyland but those little radishes grow and grow until they were ready to be pulled up first and they were so proud I 1 never before had they been at a dinner party given by the fairies they certainly were looking their best so red and bright and tender and young old mr giant thought it a great joke that the radishes had won tho the race in this way and then he had a dinner party at the first party the treat was radishes and at the second it was lettuce I 1 |