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Show A" MARY -GRAHAM-BONNER TRAVELERS WITHOUT TICKETS "Really," said one daffodil to another, an-other, "It Is very brave of us." The daffodils Here In a box and they were being sent from a beautiful beau-tiful garden In the country to some one who lived where she could not have a garden, bo many bouses and buildings build-ings were round about "Later on," said the second daffodil, daffo-dil, "I heard our mistress say that there would be big red pop-Big, pop-Big, Red Popples, pies to send and Valeria flowers which are so sweet, and yellow lilies end ferns and wild roses, and forget-me-nots and sweet Williams and Uttle dulaies and pinks. "But Just now tlie spring flowers are being sent." "Yes," sold a third daffodil, "and I think with First Daffodil that It is brave of us to travel as we do. "True, we're well wrapped up and we have nice cool, damp cotton about us and flower-paper and we're kept fresh, but still we travel without any companion and yet we do not get excited." ex-cited." "We have stamps upon our box," said a purple hyacinth. "But no one guarding over us," said another purple hyacinth. . "There are the Mall Cor people, but they're looking after dozens and hundreds hun-dreds of other packages and papers and so forth at the same time. "We have no special person looking after us. "And we have no tickets for traveling." travel-ing." "What," asked a little branch of flowering dogwood, "do people mean when they speak of money not growing grow-ing on bushes? Who, for a moment, ever thought It did? I know none ever grew on me." "Oh, it's a saying," a little crocus said, "and when people think that they can be extravagant some one who thinks they should not be extravagant says: 44 Goodness, to see you act, one would thluk that money grew on bushes.' It doesn't meun it ever would grow on bushes." "I should hope not," the flowering dogwood said. "Dear me, wouldn't I hate It if Instead of lovely, bright petals opening only hard little coins should appear which wouldn't have any nice sweet perfume or anything like that." "It's a good thing," another daffodil said, "that the address of where we want to go Is written outside of our box for I'm sure I wouldn't know." "Nor would I," said the second daf-1 daf-1 fodll. "Nor I," snid the third daffodil. And all the other flowers In the box said that they would not know where tn en nnd thev'd be lost surely If It weren't written on the outside of the box. - "Then, too," said the first daffodil, daf-fodil, "that Is a good tiling, for when we haven't tickets to show where we're going go-ing and when wa haven't voices to I call out: ! "'Let us off at the next station, please.' It would be hard for us If Th. Flowerln9 the address Dogwood. weren't written on the outside of the box." "It's interesting to be a traveler without a ticket," said the first purple hyacinth. And all the flowers agreed. |