New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-16
Digging for B1zffered p oils.

IL,
But the Earthw0rm said:
legs no spades nor shoyes 10 dig you out and
1 Geip you up But wait et me think a moment :,
tel you what ! can do III speak Of you to the
further Their up the hillside. and we will see what can
Now an this happened, in the spring-that great
glad time in the round of the year when new
plans and O Strength O in our G Brains Indeed
was the SPRING that reaches to the very centre
little Roll feel homesick FOR the Sun-the
so long ago to make the wheat that made the
Hoar tnat made he roll. and the other sunbeams
that made the grass that fed the COW that gave
me milk to make the butter. were growing home
Veil after While Re EarthSRoTm w g0t chance
TO speak to the Tap Root and the new car
over the branches of the wide Spreading tree. and
the leaves whispered TO another about in the
az Iast tiny twig on the topmost Dough SAID TO
so IL have thought out ], feel that I am
am going TO give ali my strength to it, so that
IL VIII be the finest and biggest one on the whole
10 ask the wind to carry It FAR far avn awa so' 10
said the But5ered Ro %a T bnred me
But what good will that do?" said the other
snIr. don't a,6r exactly know the Little Tvig
lonely Butfared Rng g 'R 3 must help that little
f. from qD5 my hSaFt JUST sure sure can
81 6ut ter Roll though don't know just way
So the Acorn budded and swelled the summer
| through; and then Drowned and grew shiny and
S T{s IN the autumn winds. And the Mother
fGeariy and sometimes felt that she could hardly
~ sne grew brave. and one stormy night in
hurricane rate gave her bestf uS acnT aG3s b at
great I@nd's keeping, with a charge to carry it
Roll lay waiting And through all these months it
I50u ~ Nh ceased 10 nope-this wee. Entered
at last the Wind laid the Acorn down the Earth-
earth that new, thing had come TO i've and
no no SIo% there on that sandy stretch where trees
| and awaited with gladder heart
story its Mother Twig had told it. and before tine
sprouts quite %0er had thrust out its little pink
thy roots into the sand about it.
had seven beautiful leaves and its tiny stem was
~ Ea stoeg ana straight and sturdy that who
WIZ That a4 9 2ii or shrub near it and said
ha VIII dg t up and put it in the lawn where
[ ThHe ,6 6gIit my new house,
| away had been showing some other people how to
country and he also knew great deal about Ciif-
terent KINDS Of earth He began at once to loosen
found however. that the tap root was already
As he dug deeper and deeper he noticed Curious
he y" sTifflhg now and then in the earth. Then
MIN to see more clearly and by and by he selected
last he stba uiy away IN ms handkerchief AT
gan again to Walk ye sme ~ oak T[fe o1 and be
ton against the setting run The nSf 6sv
planted the little Oak Tree in h vide 9ee s the D nap
nG NEAR ms mouse and showed the earth to some men
different sorts and they talked about il a great
before number of them Vent MAS o NOT many any weeks
pPPe e9p 5aaS ha do been fi the AeQTns home
coored stones in the ce erb sPrL OF 9Tlght or
no matter how deem h..w long until they have
The Tiny Twig on the topmost bough Of the Oak
a lar I t on the hillside saw what was going
loved into every fibre Of its beautiful Acorn Was
going to be anSwered-as heart messages always
tree as the Sap went down in the autumn till thu
called out to Passing i EarthW noGd with 1t and
oh Earthworm. Earthwormr' it cried 1T is
their butered rolls they are getting closer and
closer to them even while they dig for the foolish
And the Earthworm burrowed back to tell the
oh Water. Water" it cried out Tt is
coming 6niI at East Though people viii not dig for
closer to them even while they dig for the foolish
And the Water trickled down to the vein OF metal
oh, Metal Metal. it is coming at last. Though
people Nil not d dig for their buttered rolls they
they dig for the foolish things they really do not
And the Metal grew bright with joy and smiled
on Rock Rock it is coming at last Though
they dig for the foolish things they really do not
thrilled the earth about it far and near.
oh Earth: Earth" it said. ii is coming at Iasti
Though people will not dig their buttered rolls
they are getting closer and closer o them even
while they dig for the foolish things they really
90 need"
And the thrill from the great Rock went to the
heart of the little Roll but before this its
love and hope and longing. as pure and beautiful
as moOnbeams and strong and warm as the
Buttered Roll, living long with Rock and the
Sand and the Metal for neighhOrS. into beautiful
gem that people call opal: a stone that has
thoughts and moods Of its and is full dreams
| and prophecies.
And the men that had been digging for other
things came upon il ~ last and took II ont with
great delight and had ii rounded and polished and
in ring to carry its sweet message to the
happy hand that would one day wear it.
And is your ring really truly. that very same
wee buttered ron?" Max asked with wide open
| eyes.
'T wonder II just wishing could turn a common
buttered roll into a beauty thing like that?' Jessie
| said
Grandma was looking deep into the heart of the
! glowing Goals if her thoughts were very TAR
away.
| YES" she said, slowly. after a while. Il do
| think that wishing do nearly anything and
| that just wanting with whole souls. is the
| with YOU and and everybody just as il was
! with the sunbeams that had long gone 0
sleep in the making of the little roll All the good
] glad things that have gone TO the making OF US