New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-09-07

40 - knew how it
came there, for
no'one had planted it, but it was a
pretty little thing with green hearts
for5leaves and cunning little palegreen
curls here and there upon it's fuzzy
stem.
She wanted to get off Of the ground.
where she had been all her short life,
SO she'crept slowly along to find some
thing to take hold of that she might
climb high up into the bright sunlight.
She put out her tender tendrils and
felt carefully along, for she was blind
poor little thing, aud could not see
where she was going.
AS she reached out she felt some
thing hard. "Ah, perhaps this is
something high thought Morning
Glory, SO she crawied up the side
quite to the top, but she was not
nigh at all much higher than on
the ground-for it was only q stone
shat she had found; SO she quietly
crept down the other side, and lay
there quite discouraged.
There was an old man who used to
take care OF Somebody's garden, and
he saw this plant growing there and
CROPPING about for support, so he
fastened string from peg stuck
into the ground up to Somebody's
window sill, and then he quite forgot
all about it.
The next morning the Morning Glory
felt more cheerful, and she started
upon her search again. She had not
far to go this time, because the kind
old man had fastened the peg very
near to where she lay; so she
reached about with caution to avoid
another stone, and took hold OF. the
string.
The poor, sightless little thing did
not know that the old man had put
it there for her, but somehow she felt
that it would lead her where she wished
to go up toward the beautiful sky
and the great golden sun.
So she climbed along the string,
slowly at first, then faster each day
as she began to know the way, until
like Jacks beanstalk, she had
reached the window-silI
Now, somebody, the person who
owned the garden, was i'll; so i'll that
he had to stay always in his room
with an ugly black bandage over his
eyes, and the doctors feared that he
might never see again.
He was very unhappy, and was
often-oh, SO very!-cross; and the SER
wants quite fear ed him when he spoke
to them in harsh and authoritative
voice.
He had no relatives, and he lived
quite alone in his great house, with
many people to wait upon him and
with ever so much money to buy
things to make him happy. But the
things that one buys do not always
make one happy, and he was terribly
wretched in his big, fine house.
One morning be CROPPED his way to
the open window and put his hand
out upon the side ofthe frame, and he
felt a little sharp nail. Now, if he had
been gentle the nail would not have
hurt him, for it was harmless
little thing; but he made a rough,
impatient movement, and it caught
his finger and bruised it little
This made Somebody very angry.
and he said some very unpleasant
things about the person who dared to
put nail outside his window, and he
fa3t oil o,,+g xyor1y " bic no
to find the nail once more, that he
might tear it out.
So he moved his hand slowly along
upon the sill, and the Morning Glory
was reaching her little hand about
there at the same time, and their two
hands met.
One did notlook at all like a hand,
but it was one just the same, and the
little green hand grasped the great
white one and thay seemed to know
and to understand leach other at once,
for the little green hand said to the
large white one very senderly, ooh! 50
you ane;blind, too! 4 am SO sorry
The great hand. did not try to find
the nah after that; lit gust touched the
Morning GLORY with @ soft caress and
two great ,drops;fell upon her leaves.
They felt strangely and net at all like
the cool RAIN drops which sometimes
watered the Morning, Tory, and some
thing told her that these drops were
teams.
Now, after thss, these tMo--Some-
body and the Morning g lory grew to
love each other very dearly. and each
day they would fees about for ono an
other, and the dainty Morning Glory