Show AW 1 STORY TREES I 1 A T THIS time of oath h q y year ell F eold aid n the sandman ad tho birds are eating t the 11 a seed v f the reit red cedar awai trek trees the these so trees are ara otra strange ilie in their be havar they will grow well ivell in 14 a ew aw neighborhood but theado da not like ike to have many trees about them ad nd it oth other entrees er trees grow grini up op about then al they be become ome discouraged and give up trying g to growl cothey So I 1 they are to be found foun dand aw I 1 the birds birda fand thena but cei fond of spaces Y the ards h are re alloi finding winter food in barks barba of frees 6 where r e btttle eggs ZA a A f y r thank you thank you mr moon 4 said th the pine tree e i aa 3 v j i of i ln insects are hidden bidden and there are insects upon the fallen the ducks ond find insects onabe on the water until the lei ice freezes freeze over the wa water weeds in the deep beep parts of the streams androw and now the winter trees ore are look ing their best tor for they know that they oo 00 W well wel I 1 lin in the winter timea too abe T f p pines ines and hardwood trees till tell their the irown own stories ampy people can read them theiu aust as aa they would read the eb chapters apters of a took book there Is a ring of wood around the stump for every year that atia the tree tins has lived and from the width bcd be tween these rings it can be told how much the tree grew Arlien hen 11 1 was aias two years old or three years whether it hod had a good bearg year OP r U a bad daw yeah oat i the trees acil their stories just as a so go mao many y af of tho Off different ferent creatures dor arld add all we need Is to saddy their language so 50 ive we can learn their stories 0 arjes for they are so iby very very iery wood wonderful erful t and marvelous I 1 i y the roots of plants ana and trees 64 too 0 h have ave sto stories irles to tell of the work that they do i they come above thi the gi ground round but bai they do their parts not cir caring ing whether they are ieee been In fact they like ilke to hide their good works y they go their own w waya getting free from anything that would hurt buit them and and with bilth root hairs c arling curling themselves about the soil and growing and getting their roal root food they know that there Is or too in the soil and dampness and in some wonderful way they do the work that mother nature has them to do without any fuss fusi and pd ns though it were vere no bother bothee but the more we see se of it the more amazing it seems and the more we want to marvel 4 rome Some of alother Nature 8 children childrs do donot not do as she tells them there Is the mexican fleetle about whom there has gitig been a great deal of trouble for or she d destroys crops and everything that Is given to tb make the crops better she takes for herself herst lf i r she isia isa relative of lady bug but ady ady bug Is not harmful alid like ellb to think that this relative of hers I 1 ial p so BO dreadful but imus emust tell you more about the pine tree and what he said eald to moon as mr moon looked down at him mr mon moan you have hav s leam san me here foi q great many years non oa perhaps do not at k keep beep count of alie lie years you donot h ave to for it 1 matter what age the moon Is as the moon al ways waya looks about the same age I 1 of bourk joil you wear different suits ind and no longer a full moon youre called an moon moo apt back again as a youn gnew moon so I 1 suppose that to Is why you do not consider the he years therefore it matter how many years you have seen me it matters rs 1 said mr moon for or I 1 am always so kind glad to see you I 1 want to see you for many more years yeam that Is why it matters I 1 like to count those splendid years thank you thank you mr moon said the pine tree but this Is what I 1 have bave to tell you I 1 love to be a win in ter tree for in the winter time it seems that every one Is fonder of me for being ever ever eer e er green and I 1 like to be liked bevery i every one does said sir mr moon ive been shining for a good many years anil and I 1 know that copyright |