Show gel fir D kv MAN 6 THE BUTTERFLY A the war warm m days which often comer come alte q late in tho the fall said daddy had brought out some of the butteri butter i flies the flowers were also trying to look their best and though jack F frost rest lind nipped most of them some were able to blossom a little with the help of mr sun T to 0 b bo a sure there were several that jn jack ak F frost rost had not been able to touch the pansies pan garden violets and tho the sweet alyssum alys suin flowers they will never pay any attention to jilin him as ive told you before and will keep right on blossoming bloss oming until the shiow snow covers them thein up but there were others these days which had managed to come out and illow how happy they were to see the sun again we thought we had gone to bed fo for r the winter they said and that we ifould bould not seo sea you until next year mr sun blinked and beamed and sald said it will be warm for a week and ill see that you can have a wonderful week of sunshine the flowers smiled and waved in the soft breeze we love it these days they said they always come as such a surp surprise ilse somehow chow wo we cant imagine that warm days will come after jack frost gets CM wit tia geoffrey thought s he was being caught in a net at us he freezes TOS 14 and makes us feel like shrinking up into absolutely nothing at all its a shame too tho the way wo we obey him never mind said mr sun you have a lot of fun so you really mind if jack frost comes along in the autumn arumn for his fun too so eo were greedy said the flowers fl owera along came the butterflies and they sipped of the honey from the flowers hello blossoms said the butterflies ter flies hello lovely butterflies the flowers said as they raised their heads which meant an invitation to the butterflies ter te flies rilles to take all the honey they could now a little boy named geoffrey camo came out of his house he walked from the porch down into the garden what a fine day it Is he said to it himself im 11 1 I must do something now the flowers lind and the birds and the butterflies did n not ot like geoffrey and when flowers and nna birds end and butterflies ter flies files do not like alko chilgren chil hren its a very bad sign he always walked through the garden pulling at the flowers and dropping thorn them as lie ha pulled them off ile he never picked them aalf as if he thought they were beautiful and they loved to i be picked nicely they know that tha t they give so much pleasure that way and flowers love to make people happy the birds were always afraid that geoffrey would find their nests he etc had been known to steal eggs and the butterflies knew that he owned a horried net that he tried to catch then their in luckily they had not been caught but they always were miserable when they saw him 1 I shall certainly have a butterfly today lie be said 1 I thought they had gone for the year but here they are around again yes I 1 must start a col lection theres a beauty he said as be saw a gorgeous yellow one hying flying over s some ome flowers mr sun mr mi sun whispered the Is there anything you can 1 to help me all ali yes said mr sun 1 11 I know hat ril dog do and ril ill do it this very mor morning it will be a greaf great joy to do what I 1 have in mind but of course 1 I must musi speak to th the dream eDream king the butterfly know about the dream am king but mr sun certainly was a co comfort efort he called the dream king and said give this boy the right kind of a dream he wants to catch butterflies butterf fles androu and you know the rest mr sun began to shine so hard bard that it made geoffrey feet feel very sleepy 1 I guess ril ill take a nap in the sunshine before I 1 start in catching butterflies butterf fles he sara that was just what mr sun wanted the dream king came hurrying along and such a dream as he gave him geoffrey thought lie he was being ca caught in a net and then he was being pinned to a great wall his legs were laid up by pins as were his bis arms ife he struggled ad and struggled and after awhile he woke up to find out it if had only been a horrible dream but did he catch butterflies after that nop no 1 indeed 1 |