The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-21

ter In the Green Forest. So the little
brown seed lay just where he had hid
den It. until gentle Sister South Wind
came In the spring and with her soft
fingers opened all the little brown
blankets Of the leaf buds on the trees
which Jack Frost with his hard fingers
had been unable to open. Then Old
Mother Nature remembered the little
brown seed, and she wakencd n little
fairy who was sleeping In the heart OF
Il, and the name Of the little fairy was
the Fairy Of Life.
So out from the warm earth sprang
tender green shoot, which really was
teeny wecny PIne-tree.
Jolly, round. bright Mr.. Sun, look
ing down from the blue, blue sky, saw
Il and smiled. and his smile made the
tecny, weeuy Piue-tree very happy for
lt warmed the ground and comforted
the little roots growing there.
Old Mother West Wind, hUrryins
past on her way to blow the white
sailed ships across the Great Ocean.
saw the teeny weeny Pine-tree and
sent some Of her children. the Merry
Little Breezes, to drive up n shower
cloud that It might not 90 thirsty.
But no one else saw the teeny, wceny
Pine-tree, or II they did see IT, they
took no notice Of It, Happy Jack
Squirrel ran right past and didn't so
much as look at II, for he had forgot
ten all about hiding that homely little
brown seed In the ground there. Once
Peter Rabbit, nlbbling tender sweet
clover, nearly nlpped or the head OF
the teeny, weeny Pine-tree and didn't
even know II.
But nothing really happened to the
teeny, weeny Pine-tree, and II grew
and grew and was happy, for II loved
Jolly, round, bright Mr.. Sun and Old
Mother West Wind and the Merry
Little Breezes, and they loved It. So
it grew and grew, and when rough
Brother North Wind came again he
covered It deep with a soft blanket Of
snow 10 keep It warm all winter.
So the teeny weeny Pine-tree was
kept safe all the long winter, and when
gentle Sister South Wind once more
came lu the spring the teeny, weeny
Plne-tree began TO grow again. It
grew and grew and grew and grew
until It was no longer tecny, weeny,
but put out sturdy branches and was
very good 10 look upon and held its
head high for 1t was indeed q beautI-
ful young tree.
And for q time the young Pine-tree
was very, very happy. But after u
while Il began 70 feel lonely. All the
other Pine-trecs were In the Green
Forest, and often It could hear them
whispering together and It longed to
whisper with them and could not, and
So It sighed and sighed, and Peter Rnb-
BIT passing that way often stopped to
wonder what made such handsome
young Pine-trec seem so sad.
So the years passed and the young
Pine.trec became bigger than any OF
its ncighbors In the Green Forest, and
became known as the Beautiful Pine,
and was beloved of all the little people
of the Green Forest and the Green
Meadows, and gave them shelter and
was happy.
Once every year, long after the nuts
had been gathered and all the world
seemed drcar and bare, came merry
children, and older folk, and with
laugh and song and happy shout would
cut young Pine trees and young Hem.
lock trees and carry them away. At
first the Beautiful Pine had pltled the
young trees, but when 1t saw that II
was the possession Of these trees that
made the children SO happy, 1t began
TO envy them, and when Jack Frost