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Show I DADDY'S EH EVENING fll FAIRYTAIll.f rMaryGrahamBrj finer COPYMCtfT BY WEJTfXfl lTWJfPfi UMOff SPRING LILACS The purple lilac had a story o tell to the other lilac bushes in the oid I ft?5 "ri ., . that its family had "How Fragrant jo .,, , ,, been planted by and Beautiful." , ,, bulbs or roots, and so it didn't know anything about' Jack Frost. "It didn't even know of him by reputation rep-utation as we do from hearing all the flowers talking of their family histories his-tories and what happened iu the autumn. au-tumn. "And what do you suppose that little flower said?" "What?" asked the Persian lilac and the white lilac. "It asked the first spring flower If Jack Frost would come around and touch us, and it said what a pity It would be to see the three lilac bushes frost bitten." "Well, that was a joke," said the Persian lilac and the white lilac, for they thought the end of the story had been reached. "The very idea," said the Persian lilac, "of our ever being bitten or nipped by Jack Frost." "That's why 1 thought it was such a joke. This poor flower, grown from a bulb knew nothing abou' us at nil. And then what made It even funnier fun-nier " "Oh, there's more to come!" exclaimed ex-claimed the Persian lilac. "I'm listening," said the white lilac. "It asked the first spring flower if the lilacs were ever nipped by Jack ( Frost in the au tumn. too. for it thought we were so beautiful and it would he such a shame if we evei were frost hiiten." "T h a t's the best of ull," said the while lilac, us It' shook, laugh ingly. "To think II didn't know that we only bloomed in the sining." said the Persian lilac. garden. "I just heard one of the early spring flowers telling tell-ing another that Jack Frost had put its family to bed for the winter by making them so cold they couldn't keep awake and their heads dropped off," said the purple pur-ple lilac. The other lilacs li-lacs listened. "Another sorina (lower said "Ah. for us." said L - 1 the purple lilac, .Jhey Haye 0ny "we only wanl the 0ne S:ason I spring, the spring I of soft breezes and warm sunshine ! with everything coming out. flowers. I leaves, shrubs, and the children galh ering our big branches and spying I how fragrant and beautiful we are." i "Yes." said the while lilac, "the , spring is our time." And the Persian lilac agreed. Just then some children came out of the house near the lilac trees and one ot theiu said : "ll seems u pity we only have lilac in the spring, but perhaps it makes u? love tliem and iippivclale Ihcin all the more because Ihey only have one sea son the spring." |