| Show dr 1111 dadds evelin Eve iii fairy tale BOWER i f T n UNION a FORGET ME NOTS sometimes said a little F forget arget me not growl growing tog la in the garden in a shady place near some som ferns 1 I think of my other name and I 1 smile to myself often ive seen you stuffing smiling to yourself 9 said a I 1 d F a I 1 r y princess joy and perhaps youve been thinking then of your other name dome 1 I dont believe I 1 know of any other name which you have she continued it ro d im sure id like 1 I am not silly to know perhaps ive several names which 1 I 00 not kno know w myself the forget me not continued you know we flowers are like that thal ido I 1 do hope were never rude because of it at least we try never to be you tou see sometimes some one will go up to a flower and will speak to that flower by a name the flower has never really kno known an it had to be sure people make mistakes and call flowers by their wrong names they forget the names of flowers just as they forget the names of deop people it is quite quite easy to understand that they would do this s but I 1 mean that they often speak to flowers by names which the flowers somehow feel are names darnes which they really own and yet which they dont know themselves now there are the gorgeous pink flowers Mount mountain aln laurels also called calico bush flowers and pink azalea flowers are also called PInk they rather like the name dame of Pink better than the other they say it Is so simple a name and that it sounds like the woods and not like a greenhouse and Pink do love the gut but as I 1 say we flowers always try to be very polite as were called by our different names and we try to smile our nice how do you dos back at people my other name Is mouse ear that a tunny funny name oh yes laughed fairy princess joy that Is a funny name I 1 dont think ive ever heard you called by that name before 1 I have been called ba b it sold said the forget me ile not but not very often arod and as I 1 say I 1 may have other names some other members of the family may know of them but at the time 1 can only think of my usual name of forget me not and my other one ot of mouse ear do you wonder I 1 laugh or smile to myself when I 1 think of that name it Is such a funny name I 1 As though I 1 had bad an ear like a mouse I 1 nave have I 1 tell me that fairy princess joy do you think I 1 have anything about me that Is like a mouses ear 1 I dont said fairy princess joy t it Is not that I 1 would mind the forget r arget me not said 1 I am not silly and I 1 do not think myself so much above a mouse in tact fact a little forget me ine not Is so near the ground that ii it should not think itself above any thing I 1 ali ah said the fairy princess joy the creatures who should not think thetus themselves elves so superior always do I 1 1 I suppose it Is because they have made themselves small because I 1 thought they were so big 1 I mean that people grow small in their minds and in their natures when they think so lit big and so im por tant 1 I see thu forget me not an answered sered put as I 1 said it Is not that I 1 would mind but I 1 dont think there Is very much resemblance now we different forget me not are juit as alike as we can be I 1 blame anyone for saying 1 I cant tell you from your little J brother brot lier or your 11 little atle sister in fact I 1 think you ell all are bously alike 1 I think we nil all I 1 look I 1 0 0 k amazingly alike but I 1 dont think we look like the ears of mice in the first place mice are gray and we are blue with centers of yellow and mice only mice only have h have ave two ears and two ears we have five petals apiece cut but I 1 do think it is a funny oame name and as I 1 said I 1 smile to myself and so do many of us when we think of that name but now I 1 must think about looking my best for I 1 have been given a nice drink of water and I 1 want to look nil all spruced cupl up you see someone transplanted us from a river bank to tills this little fern garden because we were so much bueb loved and because we were wanted near at huml band so loo we try to do our best as we are watered so much and cared for to la ko bo kindly and understanding a way |
