Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-06-20
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
THE LITTLE SLEEPER.
How the Raindrops Woke Up Drowsy
Little Bean and Sent 1t Out 90 SUN.

How tho Raindrops Woke Up . Drowsy
Little Bean and Sent 1t Out 90 sun.
Down in the soft, brown earth one warm
spring day there lay little bean fast
asleep and dreaming of the days long ago
when he was baby living so happily with
his sisters in their home with such dainty
green curtains at all the windows Where
are his sisters now He doesn't know, but
Robbie does, for he has planted them all in
a row out in the garden.
Day after day the great round sun looked
to see if the sleepy little beans were awake.
Night after night the moon and the stars
looked down, but no beans could they sec.
why don't they wake upS" cried the
stars, but the sun and the moon only an
swered, Wait" And day after day, when
Robbie asked mamma, why don't they
wake up?" she answered, "Wait, Robbie"
One day, after Robbie and the stars We're
about tired out waiting, there came up
from the south such great gay cloud, ali
full of little raindrops. Glad to SEQ your
cried the sun. you re just what wo need, !"
and that the cloud laughed so loudly that
Robbie was frightened and ran to mamma,
but she was not afraid of the thunder and
took him to tho window to watch the trees
come the cloud. Suddenly those raindrops
cried Look outl Here wo gop' and
catching hold of hands away they dartod
through the air, down, down to tho earth,
and then slowly, slowly they went creep
ing through the dark ground hunting for
sleepy little seeds and roots, and at last
they found the little bean, still fast asleep.
Do you know how the raindrops waken
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sleepy little thing and begin to sing very,
very softly. So these raindrops gently
kissed the bean and then began their songs
about the great round sun shining so warm
and bright, about the beautiful moon and
the baby stars playing all night long up
in the sky and about tho robins and
wrens and swallows and bluebirds, all
coming back to live in the trees.
BY and by the bean began to rub his
sleepy eyes and to stretch and twist, until
at last he was wide awake. Oh, how hap
ply the raindrops were then! How they
did hustle about to get him dressed so he
might go out in the world and see the sun
and the trees. OFF came tho little white
nightgown in such u hurry that it was
torn all to pieces. But then, he would
never need it again, for he was never again
to go to sleep At last the bean was all
ready. Putting his tiny foot on the ground,
he began stretching up his body and push
ing and crowding until finally he had
reached clear up through the soft, brown
earth and found himself face to face with
the great, glorious sun, while all around
birds were singing their happicst songs
and the trees We're waving their branches
all covered with pink and white blossoms,
and just close by, standing all in row,
were his own littlo sisters, for they, too, had
been wakencd and dressed by the rain
drops. He was too happy to speak. All he
could do was just to stretch up his two
hands to tho sun, who tendcrly kissed the
tiny fingers, while the birds sang n well
come and the blossoms fairly danced for
joy.-Child Garden.