El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-01
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
"1Iary Caw-Caw and June
By HOWARD B GARIS
By HOWARD B. GARIS.

EARY CAW-CAW, the little crow
M girl, woke very early in her
nest-hOuse in the tail pine tree
one morning, and. fluttering first one
wing and then the other, and stretch
ing out her Claws. she few down to
the ground
why, Mary, where are you going so
early before breakfast asked Aunt
Flippity-Flop, the dear old maid crow
lady, who, as usual, was sweeping of
the front porch Of the nest
7 am going after flowers" said
Mary, as she dipped her beak in a little
spring Of clear, cool water and took
a long drink
@FlOWersl" exclaimed aunt Flippity-
Flop, and as she said that she swept
a little too much dust on one side OF
her left claw, and the next moment she
fell right down Zip But she did not
get hurt in the least, as she fell on the
soft doormat which was made Of old
crow feathers
"Oh. how you startled me" exclaimed
Mary.
Yes, I am a little surprised myself"
aunt F1ippity-Flop said 7 know it
only takes a very little to upset me,
such as too many raisins on one side OF
my sugar cookie, but / never thought
a little too much dust on one side would
do it I must be more careful after
this"
Aunt Flippity-FlOp was very sensi-
tive and easily upset, YOU see Why,
sometimes she would fail down il the
canary bird just put his head too much
on one side But the dear old maid
crow lady was seldom hurt though she
did flip and flop, which was the reason
she had such an odd name
You say you are going after flow
ers, Mary2" asked aunt Flippity, as she
carefully swept the dust all up in
heap in the middle, so as not to upset
herself again.
yes. flowers for our school" re-
piled the little crow girl The lady
mouse teacher asked US all to bring
some So I am going off in the woods
before breakfast to gather a bouquet"
That will be nice spoke aunt Flip
So Mary Caw-Caw flew down and
gathered flowers, singing as she made
them into a bouquet with ferns and
ribbon grass And she sang a song
like this:
q see flowers red and blue,
7 will gather them for you
Rain and sunshine from above,
Grow the flowers that we love.
Pretty flowers. as they dwell,
In woodland depths, are sweet to smell.
Don't smell too hard, though, if you
please,
Or flower-dust viii make you sneeze.
And. no sooner had Mary sung that
song Lla4 ollb LUX a luAEf sweet 6lAAHA4
of a yellow dandeliOn, and, surely
enough, the dust got up her nose and
she sneezed: "A-ker-chooi A-ker-chOoi
A-ker-chooi"
But the little crow girl did not mind
that, and kept on gathering flowers
until she had a fine bouquet for the
lady mouse teacher
Then Mary flew back to her nest
house to get ready for school, and, on
her way, she flew past the garden
where a rich canary bird gentleman
lived. His house was a golden cage,
and all aronud II were beautiful June
roses blooming.
"Oh. how I wish I had some Of those
rosesr" sighen Mary. They are so much
more gorgeous than the plain little
wild flowers that wilt so quickly"
But she could not have any Of the
lovely June roses2 and she knew ii, so
she tried to be satisfied with the more
simple blossoms.
But you just wait and see what hap
pens
Uncle WiggiIy Longears, the rabbit /
gentleman, had also risen early that /
morning 10 take a walk in the woods |
before breakfast. And he happened to ]
be near the gold cage-house of the ca !
nary bird gentleman as Mary came past |
on her way to the nest-hOuse. Uncle |