Show 11 lait daddy s IV e I 1 X 1 R fid r i ry ta 71 bp I 1 e 62 ARY GP GRAHAM NHAM baiwer rl MISS MARSH MARIGOLD come on sisters and brothers said miss marsh marigold old do not sleep any more inore it Is still cool it Is true but you mu must at a wk awak enit Is go going ig to N bo be an early spring but any A way nay we must N awaken for we are I 1 c f I 1 famous for get f ival l ting up jarly ln in the spring in fact we got get get up tip before it is Is quite quite spring we do not in mind ind ley icy marshes in the least were were R really ally cousins of tile the quite gay buttercup family but were a good deal larger than the buttercups Butter cups and were really quite gay and sunny in our golden frocks there must be many of us too oh yes there tire are lots of leaves and they are as gay and handsome as they can be and we vie must look our best too come on sisters and brothers do not delay so the marsh marigold family began to awaken in the swamp and trim to look their very best we do not care to be picked sald said miss marsh marigold it is not that we mean to be horrid about it but we cannot live away from the damp ness of the marsh we like a good wet swamp aud and of coure that to be found in peoples houses bouses where picked fl flowers overs go other flowers like to be picked and give springtime joy but it la Is our habit to stay in the swamp and we aie cannot help our ways been family na ways for years and years and years yes and good swamp ways too our leases are somei somewhat Nhat heart shaped so ho that shows that we do not mean to be cross about being picked we cannot help it that Is all soon other flowers will come out it will not be so long but we do not mind the chilly weather most of them thein want it a little warmer the pussy willows iNI lIoNs will x III not mind it it if it is not so warm but they will open their sweet gray faces when the vr warmer ariner dais come the trailing arbutus flowers will peep out of the green leaves with their dear pink and white faces the ferns will soon begin to unfold themselves the spring beauty with its white and pink petals and its veins of rose pink will ill open before long in the woods where it is damp and moist we can understand how it Is that they like dampness and moisture later the columbines will come along I 1 know of a columbine family which has always lived along an ugly railway track they said they wanted to make some beauty for the people passing by on trains to see and how lovely they always look columbines are beautiful flowers whether they wear red frocks or purple to white or pink then another nice swampy flower or shrub Is the stagger bush flowers floers too they have leaves which are thick and look something like leather their fl flowers overs look something like blueberries and supposed to bo be poisonous to any cows cois who eat them handsome flowers ali then en there are the violets yes they too are spring flowers and the dear little star of bethlehem flowers what dear star faces they have so you see sisters and brothers that the spring Is so filled with a succession of beautiful flowers that we must hurry it if were to get in at the start of the procession yes we ne must look our golden best lets all of us come out and greet the early early springtime so tho the marsh marigold clovers flow fl overs ers came out and smiled in their sunny golden way at the world k it was still later the quite quite cool columbines but the hie marsh marigold family did not mind the swamp swam was as wet as wet could be and they loved its cool dampness so they bloomed anil and looked their best is as they took their places in the first section of the early spring flower parade |