Floweres and Trees (2)

Flowers and Trees (2)

  Suddenly everyone and averything was wide awake and very busy.

  The flowers and the mushrooms bent and swayed, performing their morning exercises.

  A slender young elm stooped beside the clear water where she could see her reflection and powdered her nose with a dandelion puff.



  She was lovely, and a young sapling who was watched her longingly wished he dared speak to her.

  But someone else was watching the elm, and he wanted her for his own.

  A hideous old tree, which had been blasted by lightning many years before and had burned in a forest fire, wanted the beautiful  green-leaved elm to brighten his dreary corner of the woods.

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