Show I 1 ni iwami 0 my Imn aNUK J THE CANOE BIRCH A onoe canoe was being put away for the season said daddy and after the canoe was imaging hanging upside down in a nice old cellar which was not too near a f furna cerand and yet not too damp some little bronies bro unies jumped upon it it it was covered over with fill rugs ani and was ivas well cared for it would not need any attention throughout tile itie winter we would like to have a talk with Y you ou said billip Brow brownie lile id like to have a tall talk with will you too said she canoe we can understand you tor for were brownies said billie yes were very much like fairies dalric said bennie brownie except that tant fairles fairies are beautiful aud and we are funny anu and round and fat that makes no difference said the canoe thank you said billie brownle brownie 11 thank you said bennie brownie and the little brownies who had bome come along too sold said in their most polite tones anve we also thank you then rm rin being well thanked said the canoe and that is ulce nice for I 1 like to be thanked when I 1 have said something polite its a bit hard for k 41 L 1 I have a very pleasant life a canoe to tobe 0 be polite you ou know A canoe can go through the water so easily when people paddle it aap a canoe Is very lery useful and lots of fun it it Is properly ly understood but it the habit of a canoe to make polite spee speeches clies it was most good of you jou to make the he efrost said billie brownie bowing very low it was extremely kind of you paid aid bennie brownie we think you ou are a kind find and polite canoe said the other little brownies well said eillie billie brownie BroNn fe after a pause and after they had all chosen places about the canoe so they could hear its story wont you tell us all about yourself we have heard beard that you came from a tree 1 I did said the canoe 11 1 I came from the canoe birch tree there are many kinds of birch trees but my family belonged to the canoe birch tree family im so glad I 1 belonged to that family faintly for or we e are so useful f ua now I 1 have had a useful and very pleasant life as a canoe the people alio ft ho own me are so fond of me they wont let holes get into ely my sides by running me up on rocky shores they Th eyare are careful of me they like me and they hey want to keep beep me a long long time you see the canoe continued the canoe birch tree family can do many things people can get delicious froni from our sop sap they can make wooden kooden shacks out of us too nod and of course as you know they can get canoes from us its 1 the partridges enjoy our buds but most of all are we useful to men for we can be made into so many things but best of all the very best of all to my canoe mind Is that we can be made into wonderful bark canoes fine said billie brownie 1 I had no idea your family could do so many things and that so much could be made out of you and your re relatives in 1 I 1 beg your pardon said the canoe bu haf toy my re lathes are different they are the other birch trees find and some 0 of my relatives cant do much of anything such as the willie white birch family for example they dont live long iong they must have love swampy ground arid and they arent tit at all useful although the canoe added 1 I must say one thing the white birch family will grow in ili ugly places where there have been tires fires and where the land looks shabby but I 1 ami am glad that I 1 belong to the lie birch family or that I 1 did belong to tt it for we are considered the finest members of the whole birch tree family often some branches of my family are thrown into a merry bohlim bonfi fV 1 and how gayly they crackle and burn and how they do add to an all autumn bonfire party well were delighted to have heard about you said bialle crownie Crow nic and we thank you most extremely for telling us os your history bm we ale brownie ns as they nil all sold said goodby good by all and d left the canoe for its winters luters rest copyright 1018 western newspaper anlo i |