. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . ious Trunkhosie told them in great haste that late onthe day before he had flowm into a beautiful flower andit had closed its cup while he was busy sucking thehoney from it. In this way he had been obliged to sleepall night in the flower, but as soon in the morning as theflower was open again he had made haste to fly awayand on the road had gathered as much more wax andhoney as he was able to carry and was now going to 48 take it all to the queen. When Trunkhosie had told hisstory he flew right away for the beehouse. There thelady queen was
. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . ious Trunkhosie told them in great haste that late onthe day before he had flowm into a beautiful flower andit had closed its cup while he was busy sucking thehoney from it. In this way he had been obliged to sleepall night in the flower, but as soon in the morning as theflower was open again he had made haste to fly awayand on the road had gathered as much more wax andhoney as he was able to carry and was now going to 48 take it all to the queen. When Trunkhosie had told hisstory he flew right away for the beehouse. There thelady queen was sitting on a beautiful throne of wax asyellow as gold, thinking of the punishment to be inflictedon the little bee for his laziness. But when she sawTrunkhosie coming in so richly laden, she made him tellher how it had happened and praised him for his indus-try both in the morning and evening. Then the littlebee took off his waxen load with great content, andagain flew far away over garden, and field and meadowto get a new one. ANNIE AND THE ear little Annie was very un-happy for her mother was sickthe people in the village said she7ould die. And the child sat daynight at her mothers bed sidegrieved for her mother and wept-eat deal. The poor woman want-to get up out of the bed and sitbefore the door in the warm sun,or under the green trees in the little garden behind theboose, but she could not stir for pain and had to lie stillin the narrow chamber. Once when her mother hadgone to sleep Annie thought she would go out into thewoods to gather a bunch of flowers to please her when 50 she woke up. So she went into the woods and pickedthe most beautiful wild flowers and was so much engagedin it that she did not perceive till it was too late that itwas growing dark and that she had lost her way. Sheran first in this direction, and then in that in great an-guish, but constantly got deeper and deeper into theforest, and finally she could not tell which way to last she
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