The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-05-10
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the crib Of little Nay flower, whose blAn-
kei Of seit brown leaves she bad blown
OF. gave her inst apst or two, hummed
roand sor, Of eheerily, aad was going 70
tack her up agsin.
Oh! Miss south Wind, dom, cover me
/ up. have bad this warm, sticky blan.
ket on all winter. just let me get up
and shake myself. Aud little May fow-
er, as sbe spoke, began TO liz pair ol
green leaves, Ike 8 sleepy bird, who
yAwns aud slirs It's wings.
SO, sol my dear. Don't you want me
to cover you up! ll's really too early ia
wake now. lt's ooly the middle 81
March. Jack Frost will come along all
offs sudden, dearie; and oh ! ohl--here
motberly Miss South Wind gave long
| Sigh, as II she meant something dreadful.
Obi Oil He has just the .hsrpest,
spitefulest pair OF tweezers, aud he'll
nip your nose off don't know but
he'll nip the life ont OF you.
But little May flower shrugged her
glossy shoulders; and can't say whether
| IL was just a wrinkle to h er leaves she
gave or an absolute pont, | don't want
to be covered up, she murmured. Aud
gentle Miss South Wind, seeing il was OF
no use to argue, gave her a loving kiss,
patted her iondly, fetched sigh from
the depths OF ber warm heart, and of she
went with a soft wbirr of her wings.
Little May flower enjoyed her freedom
very much. Open.air life, she said, al
ways did agree with me. | can't bear to
be housed up. must have my fresh air
and have 1t all the time The weather
kept warm quite while. The pines
shook out their stiffened tassels and sang
pleasantly all day TO one another in the
mild soulherly airs. The solemn old
crows sat on the highest boughs in the
Sunshine, and their wicked eyes kept
winkIng, winkiDg, winking, as much as
TO say to each other: You knowl Just
hold OH few daysl There will be corn
down in the fields for us TO pick upl
Cav Cav! Cav Aud a fcrocious
chorus they set up together, the Williams.
There was little brook just below
and 1t seemed 10 feel the genial spell
that prevailed. Obi it grew SO fast
those warm days. This weather does me
heap OF good, it said. I'm good deal
bigger than was. And of ii went,
chuckling aud laughing and sparkling
and splashing and rattling and jumping.
Everybody thought it bad gone mad.
Not bit like the quiet, dignified stream
that peoDle found there In the summer.
But, OH dear mel How can tell 1t !!
/ guess III try to. One day that awful
Jack Frost came along. lie must have
been In barber shop at the North Pole,
for bis hair was powdered with snow
fakes, bis face was freckled with FROST
crystals, his coat was studded all over
with hail stones, and he stumped along
on two lcicles. know be had lump
of ice for heart, the mean, cold-natured
thing. lie came to the brook. will
stop this he said. And be Just laid a
pavement of white marble up and down
the stream.
He froze up the tassels of the pines,
and he made the old crows chatter In the
cold till their bills came pretty near
dropping out. ! wish they had Good
enough for the black vagabondsl
And little May flowerl What do you
suppose happened? 1t was almost such a
dreadful sccidentl
Little May flower had ambitiously set
her heart on getting up spring bonnet
IL was TO be such love of a bonnet, aud
she wanted to get ahead of all the other
flowers. As think Of the fearful risk
she ran, in trying to lead tie fashions,
il almost takes away my breath TO Tell OF
IL; but there is knight for every fair
lady, even in these dull, prosy days.
Who should come along bnl stout Mr..
North Wind. lie was sort of bluster-
ing fellow aud made good deal OF fuss
| must say. though, that he had warm
heart
II here ish't y little May flower, be
roared, for be has considerable voice !;
and Jack Frost Is comingl She has
been trying to Get out OF bed, aud there
IL her night-oap, lie said, as be spied the
tip Of bud. The male ninny couldn't
tell spring bonnet from a night.capl
But we'll forgive him. His heart was in
the right place, If bis eyes were not.
You impatient pussl he went on to
say. Did you ever bear OF Jack Frost 2
DO you know your dsngerT Little May
flower farley sbivered.
What can do for ynnI roared Mr.
North Wind. Can't do much, but every
body can do something. Aud he new
round and round AEd round, making q
great comotion, and whisked some leaves
over little May flower. Jack Frost came
gathering along on his icicles; bat May
flower was 80 safe as mouse nnder q
haymow.
Ia . few weeks the weather became
warmer, aud for good. Then Miss
South Wind came along again. | Won
der i May flower is up, she aid, fer she
had heard all sbou. The story, that night
when sbe and Mr.. North Wind were CO.
quetlIng round the old church steepie,
aud people didp't know what to make Of
the weather. il was 30 variable.
Guess III wake up little May flower,
sbe said, aud rolled away the blanket.
And there was her pet. Wasn't May
flower Glad 10 see the uebt agslnl