. Country life reader . Trillium. Wake-robin THE LEGEND OF THE DANDELION The Angel of the flowers came down to earth once—long, long ago—and she wandered here and there, in field, and forest, and garden, to findthe flower she loved the she hurried on her search,she came upon a gay tulip, allorange and red, standing stiffand proud in a garden, andthe Angel said to the tulip:*Where should you like mostof all to live? 1 should like to live on acastle lawn in the velvetygrass, said the tulip, ^wheremy colors w^ould show againstthe gray castle walls. I shouldhke to have the princess touchme
. Country life reader . Trillium. Wake-robin THE LEGEND OF THE DANDELION The Angel of the flowers came down to earth once—long, long ago—and she wandered here and there, in field, and forest, and garden, to findthe flower she loved the she hurried on her search,she came upon a gay tulip, allorange and red, standing stiffand proud in a garden, andthe Angel said to the tulip:*Where should you like mostof all to live? 1 should like to live on acastle lawn in the velvetygrass, said the tulip, ^wheremy colors w^ould show againstthe gray castle walls. I shouldhke to have the princess touchme and tell me how beautiful Iam. But the Angel turned awaywith sad eyes from the proudtulip, and spoke to the rose. Where should you like most to live? she asked the rose. Dandelion. I should like to climb the castle walls, said the rose, for I am fragile, and delicate, and not able to climb of myself. I need help and shelter. ii8. THE LEGEND OF THE DANDELION 119 The Angel of the flowers turned sadly away from therose, and hurried on until she came to the violet growingin the forest, and she said to the violet: Where shouldyou like most of all to live? Here, in the woods, where I am hidden from everyone, said the violet. The brook cools my feet, and thetrees keep the warm sun from spoiling my beautiful the Angel turned away from the violet and went on,until she came to the sturdy, yellow dandehon growingin the meadow grass. And where should you like most of all to live? askedthe Angel of the dandehon. Oh, cried the dandehon, I want to live whereverthe happy children may find me when they run by toschool, or romp and play in the fields. I want to five bythe roadside, and in the meadows, and push up betweenthe stones in the city yards, and make every one glad be-cause of my bright color. You are the flower I love the most, said the Angelof the flowers, as she laid her hand upon the dandehonscurly, yellow
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