Show ass ii binl 11 w MARY jiyu IAM BOMBER NEP 11 1 vlen W THE ahr SUN fl in it maple tree said daddy high up tip in the center where the branches began there was a sun flow er growing no one had planted it there here some seed blown by tile the wind must have ana made d C it grow there mow how it came there no one knew only that it was there and that it grew its stem was not very tall its flower was of a good size however ele r and very golden and pretty sometimes the sun could not reach it very well weil there but it seem to mind it stood in the or if the maple tree and was inas very nery happy when the maple tree find in noticed that the sunflower was lins growing up ilk like L that alay from the sun the waple maple tree said 1 I shall be so delighted if you will spend a good part of the hummer vi with ith m me e just as long as you can stay in fact cut but I 1 fear there will not be much sun for yoli you here I 1 am among a good many ot of my maple tree friends and we like to keep it shady for our friends the good people they get so go warm in the summer when there is such hot hot sun shining and they like to be given shade from our leaves we cannot do differently sun flower but wont you stay with roe me anyway it would be such a treat such an unusual treat I 1 will stay with you gladly said the sun flower you are such a lovely maple tree and you do so much that hat is kind and good that I 1 would lie be very cruel not to do as you ask it I 1 1 tan can and I 1 imagine I 1 can I 1 feet feel as though I 1 would be able to do as you ik ask it is very good of you to say that a visit from me would be a treat im very grateful to you tor for saving that V so the sunflower stayed with the maple tree and was very happy sometimes the fairies used to come and play and again the gnomes and brownlea brown iea and elves would come and people would pass by and would admire the sunflower growing an fn n the maple tree ree and others would laugh and think it was it i great joke the maple tree and me he sunflower enjoyed the joke too and often used to laugh over it together sometimes after the sunflower and the maple tree had been laughing people would pass by and they would not know what made the sunflower look so very jolly and cheerful and gay the sunflower had really been laughing 7 with the maple tree the wind would tell stories of what it had seen alon along the roads and through the air as it had been going on its travels ive seen so much today the wind said one evening and the sunflower clovi er and the maple tree begged the wind to tell them what he had bad seen 1 I saw the blue hills in the distance and I 1 said to myself they are beautiful and they ere cre lovely and they are very deep blue in color but I 1 will not pay attention to them today for I 1 have other traveling to do so I 1 went through the valley kati anil I 1 topped stopped to have chats with ill the gol den rod family and the wild A asters how lovely they w wre were re 1 the vb golden rod family were as hands some 0 in e as ever they are such beautiful flowers and they wore their lovely yellow dresses dreches and tile wild asters wore their blue frocks the wild A asters told rne me that they were t the ic first of their family to arrive but that A great joke later on there orald be a great many more of the them they sald aid they were nere unusually eai early in aich ai riving ing and tile the golden rod family said that hat they were too cut when hen I 1 told them phout about tile sunflower which was pending idin tile the summer with the anaple tree they were so sur surprised pried deally that 1 Is the most important bit of nature Isa ture news that has been about in some time phlip and liny any one who doubts it can come find and see that it ls Is true sald the llie maple tree that is so agreed the and as I 1 saw it myself said daddy 1 I can prove that it most certainly was wa tile the truth |