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Show LEGEND OF THE PEACH. LEGENDS are pretty things, ami almost al-most all the flowers and fruit have them, the tales being banded down from generation to generation, particu-i particu-i larly In the Oriental countries, Tho peach ' legend comes from Japan and should lo-tprost lo-tprost us all In a country like -ours, where the fruit Is ho popuJur. i The tradition is that a piotus old couple, i very hungry, were searching for food by i the roadsido when the wjman found n I peach, which she would not even t.-tst.-until her husband came to fharo it. He . cut it exactly io half, turned it back from , tha stone aod a baby flew out. It proved . to be one of the Japunern godl who hud I fallen to earth trM, a h..av.-nlv peach k orchard. He liked the old couple so much that b- tod them to pnnt tK. pea-b stone and Uiey would live lo s.f. prow ' orchard bearing lusions trui SUeh as was in lcaven but was not then known on earth. They did bla bid lmg and lived to ' ho many year of happimN health and! . prosperity. , S'O When you .( n defrJox pc.ich soraetimes-think of r!nf dear old .T ji.-aue.-e woman whose Lii....Uan.-s brolr bt Lithe i mil down from btAnu. |