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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the
+Nightingale & The Golden Harvest, by Jasmine Stone Van Dresser
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+Title: The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale & The Golden Harvest
+
+Author: Jasmine Stone Van Dresser
+
+Illustrator: William T. Van Dresser
+
+Release Date: July 22, 2009 [EBook #29483]
+
+Language: English
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+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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+[Illustration: THE·LITTLE·BROWN·HEN·HEARS THE·SONG·OF·THE·NIGHTINGALE
+
+By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser]
+
+[Illustration: AND·WITH·THE·LENGTHENING· EVENING·SHADOWS·]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+          The Little Brown Hen
+          Hears the Song of the
+          Nightingale
+          & The Golden Harvest
+
+          By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser
+
+          Author of "How to Find Happyland"
+
+          With an Introduction by Margaret Beecher White
+
+          The Illustrations by William T. Van Dresser
+
+          [Illustration: THE·LOUDEST·TALKERS·ARE·NOT·ALWAYS·WISEST··]
+
+          Paul Elder and Company
+          San Francisco and New York
+
+_Copyright, 1908_ _by_ Paul Elder and Company
+
+
+
+
+                      TO
+             WILLIAM T. VAN DRESSER
+            BUT FOR WHOM THE STORIES
+          WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN WRITTEN
+           THIS LITTLE BOOK IS LOVINGLY
+                 DEDICATED BY THE
+                    AUTHOR
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD.
+
+
+It is the duty of all good, useful stories to give a message to their
+readers. The two dainty stories contained in this little volume each
+carries its message of truth. Pure, simple and wholesome in quality,
+they cannot fail to refresh as well as instruct those who receive them.
+
+In the _Golden Harvest_ the lesson of patience taught by the little
+apple tree's experience will bear rich fruit I do not doubt, and the
+wisdom of the little brown hen cannot help but teach us all to listen
+for the nightingale's song of harmony in our own lives.
+
+                                            MARGARET BEECHER WHITE.
+
+
+
+
+The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+A POMPOUS old gander who lived in a barn-yard thought himself wiser than
+the rest of the creatures, and so decided to instruct them.
+
+He called together all the fowls in the barn-yard, and the pigeons off
+the barn-roof, and told them to listen to him.
+
+They gathered around and listened very earnestly, for they thought they
+would learn a great deal of wisdom.
+
+"The first thing for you to learn," said the gander, "is to speak my
+language. It is very silly for you to chatter as you do. Now we will all
+say, 'honk!' one, two, three,--'honk!'"
+
+The creatures all tried very hard to say "honk!" but the sounds they
+made were so remarkable that I cannot write them, and none of them
+sounded like "honk!"
+
+The gander was very angry.
+
+"How stupid you are!" he cried. "Now you all must practise till you
+learn it. Do not let me hear a peep or cluck or a coo! You must all
+'honk' when you have anything to say."
+
+So they obediently tried to do as he said.
+
+When the little brown hen laid an egg, instead of making the fact known
+with her sharp little "cut--cut--cut-cut-ah-cut!" as a well-ordered hen
+should do, she ran around the barn-yard trying to say, "honk! honk!"
+
+But nobody heard her, and nobody came to look for the egg.
+
+The guinea-fowls way down in the pasture ceased calling "la croik! la
+croik!" and there was no way of finding where they had hid their nests.
+In the afternoon, when their shrill cries should have warned the farmers
+that it was going to rain, they were still honking, or trying to, so
+the nicely dried hay got wet.
+
+Next morning chanticleer, instead of rousing the place with his lusty
+crow, made an effort at honking that could not be heard a stone's throw
+away, and so the whole farm overslept.
+
+All day there was a Babel of sounds in the barn-yard. The turkeys left
+off gobbling and made a queer sound that they thought was "honk!" the
+ducks left off quacking, the chicks left off peeping, and said nothing
+at all, for "honk!" was too big a mouthful for them; and the soft
+billing and cooing of the doves were turned into an ugly harsh sound.
+
+Things were indeed getting into a dreadful state, and they grew worse,
+instead of better.
+
+The hens forgot to lay eggs, the doves became proud and pompous like
+the gander, and as for the turkey gobblers, they kept the place in an
+uproar, for they thought they could really honk! and they never ceased
+from morning till night.
+
+There's no telling what it all would have come to if there hadn't been
+one in the barn-yard, with an ear that could hear something besides the
+dreadful discords.
+
+One night the little brown hen was roosting alone in the top of the
+hen-house. All at once she was awakened by the sweetest song she had
+ever heard.
+
+She called to her chicks and to some of her companions to wake up and
+listen; but they were sleepy and soon dozed off again, so the little
+brown hen was left listening alone.
+
+"I will ask the gander what this beautiful song means," she said. "He
+knows everything."
+
+So she awoke the gander and asked him who was singing the beautiful
+song, and what it meant.
+
+The gander said gruffly: "It is the nightingale. I do not know what her
+song means. She should learn to honk!" And he tucked his head back under
+his wing.
+
+"Ah!" thought the little brown hen, "if learning the gander's language
+does not help me to understand this beautiful song, I do not think it is
+worth bothering with. I shall never try to say 'honk!' again."
+
+So she went back to her roost and listened till the nightingale's song
+ceased. Then she tucked her head under her little brown wing and went to
+sleep, her little heart singing within her.
+
+At daylight she awoke, and hopping down sought her companions, eager to
+tell them the wonderful thing that was singing in her heart.
+
+"This is a beautiful, simple world," she cried, "and I have learned a
+very wonderful thing!"
+
+But to her surprise, the creatures had no desire to hear what it was,
+for they were all in a flurry getting ready for their next lesson in
+honking.
+
+"Indeed, you need not bother about honking," cried the little brown hen,
+but nobody paid any attention to her.
+
+So she called her chicks about her, and went her way, clucking merrily,
+while they picked up bugs, and dared to peep once more when they found a
+nice fat worm.
+
+Meanwhile the class in honking made very little headway, for no sooner
+were they settled than they began to wish they knew what wonderful thing
+the little brown hen had to tell.
+
+[Illustration: THEY·GATHERED·AROUND·AND·LISTENED·VERY·EARNESTLY··]
+
+They craned their necks to watch her, and were filled with envy, seeing
+that she and her chicks feasted bountifully, with very little
+scratching, whereas _they_ scratched in the barn-yard all day, and found
+only enough bugs to quarrel over.
+
+"Indeed!" said one old rooster, "we have learned nothing about the best
+way of scratching for bugs, with all our gabbling."
+
+"I should be glad," spoke up a duck, "to learn the wonderful thing that
+the little hen has learned, so _I_ could keep from quarreling with my
+neighbors."
+
+They all grew quite uneasy, and the gander became very angry.
+
+"Such a stupid lot I have never seen!" he cried. "I have a great mind to
+let you go your ways and not bother with you!" and thereat he dismissed
+the class in high dudgeon.
+
+The first thing they all did was to take after the little brown hen.
+
+"What is the wonderful thing you have learned?" asked the gobblers,
+shaking their red throats and looking very important.
+
+"Oh!" said the wise little hen, "I learned it by listening to the
+nightingale, and so can you, I presume, if you leave off that silly
+honking. Just gobble as nicely as you can when you have anything to say,
+but first be sure it is worth saying."
+
+The turkeys wished the little brown hen would tell them and save them
+the trouble of listening, but as they had paid no attention when she
+offered, they had nothing to do but follow her advice.
+
+So they stopped honking and did very little gobbling, for they found
+that they had not much of importance to say.
+
+The ducks and the chickens and the doves all asked the same question,
+and the little brown hen gave them much the same answer:
+
+"Just quack and coo and cluck as nicely as you can, and have a care to
+lay nice eggs. Attend very strictly to your own affairs, for I have
+found that one learns a great deal by listening."
+
+As they all took her advice, the barn-yard became a quiet, well-ordered
+barn-yard again, with only so much cackling and clucking, and so forth,
+as to give it a business-like air.
+
+For each one was listening to hear when the nightingale came, and first
+thing they knew each one heard the same song as the little brown hen,
+for it was singing in all their hearts, and they understood it, whether
+they quacked or gobbled or cooed.
+
+"It does seem that there's a deal of talking these days," said the
+little brown hen, "and it's mighty hard to listen; but even if the old
+gander does honk every now and then, nobody need pay any attention to
+him, for, after all, it isn't always those with the loudest voices that
+have the best things to say."
+
+
+
+
+The Little Apple Tree Bears a Golden Harvest
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+IN A thriving apple orchard full of trees richly laden with fruit, stood
+one hardy little tree whose apples remained small and green and hard.
+
+The little tree wondered why her fruit was so small, when that on the
+other trees grew so large and fine.
+
+"But perhaps as these are my first apples they are slow in ripening,"
+she thought. "I must be patient and before long the beautiful color will
+begin to appear."
+
+So day after day she watched for some signs of color on the cheeks of
+the hard little apples, and time seemed to drag more and more slowly.
+
+But life in an apple orchard is not altogether uneventful, and the
+little tree became interested in finding she could take part in what was
+going on about her.
+
+One day there was a curious squawk in among her branches, and soon two
+robins, each with a worm in his mouth, came flying in through the
+thick-leaved boughs, to their nest in a crotch of the tree.
+
+"Our birdies are hatched!" they cried, filling the gaping mouths. "The
+little tree sheltered our eggs from storm and sun, and hid them so
+carefully that no one could find them. We are safer in this tree than in
+any tree in the orchard."
+
+The little tree was filled with joy at finding that, after all, there
+was something she could do to be of use.
+
+"I have watched the little blue eggs ever since you left them here," she
+said; and she seemed to snuggle her branches more closely about the
+nest.
+
+At last the little robins grew strong enough to fly, and the nest was
+left empty, though the young birds stayed in the orchard and often came
+to perch in the tree, and sing their song of gratitude.
+
+Indeed all the creatures about seemed to know that here was loving
+shelter for them. A little chipmunk made its home under the rock at the
+foot of the tree, and frisked up the trunk and among the boughs. Many
+birds perched in the branches and told wonderful song stories of what
+was going on in the world.
+
+A merry little flycatcher chose a small twig under one of the boughs of
+the apple tree, where it perched for hours, darting out when a fly or
+other insect buzzed by; but always returning to the little twig as if it
+were home. In the shade of the thick-leaved boughs, the friendly cows
+sought shelter, patiently chewing their cud, and switching their tails
+to shoo off the flies.
+
+And so the earnest little tree did all she could to be of use, and was
+more beloved, though she did not know it, than any tree in the orchard.
+Yet she could not but think sadly of her little green apples, that
+seemed to show no signs of ripening.
+
+Many long summer days passed. The early harvest apples in their full
+prime were picked and barreled.
+
+Each day the golden pippins grew more juicy and golden; the big jolly
+Ben Davis, wine-saps, northern spies, bellflowers and many others
+ripening in their turn, filled the orchard with a delightful odor and
+glow of color; but the fruit on the one tree seemed as hard and backward
+as ever.
+
+The trees with the beautiful fruit laughed and whispered among
+themselves, and the little tree was very unhappy, for she thought they
+were laughing at her.
+
+"Surely my fruit _must_ begin to ripen soon," she thought.
+
+But at night when the rest of the orchard was asleep, she wept silently
+to herself, for she wondered if it could be possible that her apples
+would not ripen at all.
+
+At last summer seemed to hold her breath. Day after day the warm
+sunshine beat down upon the orchard, drowsy with the richness and
+fulness of its almost completed labor. The trees now and then stirred
+their heavy branches, as if suggesting that it was time to be relieved
+of their burden.
+
+One day a flock of merry children came to the orchard to play. The day
+was cool, a gentle breeze stirred,--early fall had blown its first faint
+breath.
+
+The children frolicked all day, ate their luncheon on the grass, shook
+down ripe apples, and with the lengthening evening shadows, began to
+gather up their baskets, happy and contented and ready to go home.
+
+A cool evening breeze sprang up with sudden briskness.
+
+"Look at that black cloud!" cried a little urchin.
+
+Suddenly the rain began to come down with a brisk patter; the children
+scampered quickly under the nearest tree; the dark cloud overspread the
+whole sky, rain pelted down, a great wind roared through the orchard,
+bending the trees, and causing their branches to wave wildly and a
+shower of apples to fall.
+
+"Oh, where shall we go?" cried the children. "The apples are pelting us,
+and the rain drives in upon us."
+
+"Yonder under the little tree with green apples," cried one. "See how
+thickly leaved it is, and how low the boughs bend; we shall be well
+sheltered there."
+
+[Illustration: THE WARM SUNSHINE BEAT DOWN UPON THE DROWSY ORCHARD]
+
+Quickly they rushed to the tree, and how gladly she gathered them in,
+and kept them dry under her loving arms; and not one of her apples fell
+off.
+
+Soon the shower was over, and the children scampered home, saying:
+
+"It's a good thing we were near that tree, or we should have been
+soaking wet. There isn't another one like it in the orchard."
+
+The little tree heard their words of gratitude, and wept for joy.
+
+The next day was bright and warm, and pleasant sunshiny weather
+followed. At last the haze of Indian summer settled lovingly over the
+country and the orchard rang with the voices of men and boys carrying
+baskets and ladders.
+
+"Too bad that equinoctial storm was such a blusterer," said one of the
+men. "These lazy trees have dropped much of their fruit, and it lies
+bruised on the ground."
+
+But they picked barrel after barrel of the rich harvest, and soon the
+little tree was left alone with her burden of useless fruit.
+
+Now the trees seemed prouder than ever, and talked boastfully about the
+fine apple harvest _they_ had furnished for mankind.
+
+The little tree sighed softly to herself.
+
+"But I must not be unhappy," she said, "for if I cannot bear beautiful
+red and golden apples, there is surely some work for me to do, and I
+shall find out what it is."
+
+And now, though the little tree had not noticed that her apples had
+grown, her branches were bending almost to the ground with their weight.
+She tried to shake off some of the apples, for it seemed to add to her
+disgrace to bear so much of this useless fruit. But she could no more
+shake them off than could the wind and storm.
+
+The clear cool fall days were passing, growing shorter and shorter. The
+little tree was very lonely now, for the chipmunk was snug in his winter
+home, the birds had flown south and the cows now looked for sun instead
+of shade. The other trees, having finished their work, were preparing
+for their long winter nap. The little tree way down in the corner of the
+orchard seldom saw any one, but she was stout of heart, and kept on
+saying:
+
+"I know I shall find some way to be of use."
+
+She did not pay much attention to her apples, for she had long ago given
+up hopes of their becoming red and ripe.
+
+Every night now white frost tripped daintily over the hardening ground,
+and at sunup disappeared; the days were cool and bright; the frosts grew
+heavier and the weather colder.
+
+One day there were voices in the orchard,--men and boys carrying baskets
+and ladders were coming; and to the astonishment of the little tree,
+they stopped under her boughs, placed the ladders in the branches and
+climbed up.
+
+"Good old apples!" cried one of the boys, dropping them into his basket
+with a plump.
+
+"A fine yield!" said one of the men. "Did you ever see anything more
+beautiful than this rich golden brown?"
+
+"The sweetest apple that ever grew!" said another. "I don't feel that
+I've had an apple till November brings these."
+
+"It's a wise Providence that saves this sweetest morsel for the last,"
+declared a third.
+
+The little tree listened, trembling with happiness. Could it be true?
+
+She gazed at the fruit on her heavy branches, and there, like drops of
+gold, tinged with the sombre violet of November, hung ball after ball of
+the luscious sweetness.
+
+"Oh!" she murmured, "how blest I am to have so much to give, when all
+the rest of nature is silent and sleeping. How happy I shall be, and how
+earnestly I will try to bear the sweetest apples ever grown!"
+
+At last the apples were all picked and carried to the great bins in the
+cellar, there to lie mellowing and sweetening for the farmer's use
+during the long winter months.
+
+And the little russet apple tree went to sleep, and took her long nap
+with the rest.
+
+
+
+
+
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+<img src="images/i001.jpg" width="466" height="600" alt="THE&middot;LITTLE&middot;BROWN&middot;HEN&middot;HEARS THE&middot;SONG&middot;OF&middot;THE&middot;NIGHTINGALE" title="" />
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+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Front Endpapers">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i002.jpg" width="300" height="392" alt="AND&middot;WITH&middot;THE&middot;LENGTHENING&middot; EVENING&middot;SHADOWS&middot;" title="" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i003.jpg" width="302" height="392" alt="Hay and chickens" title="" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;">
+<img src="images/i005.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Maiden" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h1>
+The Little Brown Hen<br />
+Hears the Song of the<br />
+Nightingale<img src="images/ivy_decoration.png" width="200" height="36" alt="decoration" title="" />
+<br />
+&amp; The Golden Harvest<br /></h1>
+
+<h2>By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser</h2>
+<div class='center'>
+Author of "How to Find Happyland"<br />
+
+With an Introduction by Margaret Beecher White<br />
+
+The Illustrations by William T. Van Dresser<br /></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i006.jpg" width="400" height="261" alt="THE&middot;LOUDEST&middot;TALKERS&middot;ARE&middot;NOT&middot;ALWAYS&middot;WISEST&middot;&middot;" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='center'><br />
+<br />
+<big>Paul Elder and Company</big><br />
+San Francisco and New York<br />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class='copyright'><i>Copyright, 1908</i><br />
+<i>by</i> Paul Elder and Company</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class='center'>
+TO<br />
+<big>WILLIAM T. VAN DRESSER</big><br />
+BUT FOR WHOM THE STORIES<br />
+WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN WRITTEN<br />
+THIS LITTLE BOOK IS LOVINGLY<br />
+DEDICATED BY THE<br />
+AUTHOR<br />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>FOREWORD.</h2>
+
+
+<p>It is the duty of all good, useful stories
+to give a message to their readers. The
+two dainty stories contained in this little
+volume each carries its message of truth.
+Pure, simple and wholesome in quality,
+they cannot fail to refresh as well as instruct
+those who receive them.</p>
+
+<p>In the <i>Golden Harvest</i> the lesson of
+patience taught by the little apple tree's
+experience will bear rich fruit I do not
+doubt, and the wisdom of the little brown
+hen cannot help but teach us all to listen
+for the nightingale's song of harmony in
+our own lives.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+MARGARET BEECHER WHITE.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class='center'> <table class="hen" summary="hen">
+<tr><td align='left'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+<h1>The Little<br />
+Brown Hen Hears the Song<br />
+of the Nightingale</h1>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 270px;">
+<img src="images/i007.jpg" width="270" height="300" alt="Little brown hen" title="" />
+</div>
+<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td>
+</tr></table></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>A &nbsp; POMPOUS old gander who lived
+in a barn-yard thought himself
+wiser than the rest of the creatures,
+and so decided to instruct them.</div>
+
+<p>He called together all the fowls in
+the barn-yard, and the pigeons off the
+barn-roof, and told them to listen to
+him.</p>
+
+<p>They gathered around and listened
+very earnestly, for they thought they
+would learn a great deal of wisdom.</p>
+
+<p>"The first thing for you to learn," said
+the gander, "is to speak my language.
+It is very silly for you to chatter as you
+do. Now we will all say, 'honk!' one,
+two, three,&mdash;'honk!'"</p>
+
+<p>The creatures all tried very hard to
+say "honk!" but the sounds they made
+were so remarkable that I cannot write
+them, and none of them sounded like
+"honk!"</p>
+
+<p>The gander was very angry.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"How stupid you are!" he cried.
+"Now you all must practise till you
+learn it. Do not let me hear a peep or
+cluck or a coo! You must all 'honk'
+when you have anything to say."</p>
+
+<p>So they obediently tried to do as he
+said.</p>
+
+<p>When the little brown hen laid an
+egg, instead of making the fact known
+with her sharp little "cut&mdash;cut&mdash;cut-cut-ah-cut!"
+as a well-ordered hen
+should do, she ran around the barn-yard
+trying to say, "honk! honk!"</p>
+
+<p>But nobody heard her, and nobody
+came to look for the egg.</p>
+
+<p>The guinea-fowls way down in the
+pasture ceased calling "la croik! la
+croik!" and there was no way of finding
+where they had hid their nests. In
+the afternoon, when their shrill cries
+should have warned the farmers that
+it was going to rain, they were still<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span>
+honking, or trying to, so the nicely dried
+hay got wet.</p>
+
+<p>Next morning chanticleer, instead of
+rousing the place with his lusty crow,
+made an effort at honking that could
+not be heard a stone's throw away, and
+so the whole farm overslept.</p>
+
+<p>All day there was a Babel of sounds
+in the barn-yard. The turkeys left off
+gobbling and made a queer sound that
+they thought was "honk!" the ducks
+left off quacking, the chicks left off
+peeping, and said nothing at all, for
+"honk!" was too big a mouthful for
+them; and the soft billing and cooing of
+the doves were turned into an ugly
+harsh sound.</p>
+
+<p>Things were indeed getting into a
+dreadful state, and they grew worse,
+instead of better.</p>
+
+<p>The hens forgot to lay eggs, the
+doves became proud and pompous like<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span>
+the gander, and as for the turkey gobblers,
+they kept the place in an uproar,
+for they thought they could really honk!
+and they never ceased from morning
+till night.</p>
+
+<p>There's no telling what it all would
+have come to if there hadn't been one
+in the barn-yard, with an ear that could
+hear something besides the dreadful discords.</p>
+
+<p>One night the little brown hen was
+roosting alone in the top of the hen-house.
+All at once she was awakened by
+the sweetest song she had ever heard.</p>
+
+<p>She called to her chicks and to some
+of her companions to wake up and
+listen; but they were sleepy and soon
+dozed off again, so the little brown hen
+was left listening alone.</p>
+
+<p>"I will ask the gander what this
+beautiful song means," she said. "He
+knows everything."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>So she awoke the gander and asked
+him who was singing the beautiful song,
+and what it meant.</p>
+
+<p>The gander said gruffly: "It is the
+nightingale. I do not know what her
+song means. She should learn to honk!"
+And he tucked his head back under his
+wing.</p>
+
+<p>"Ah!" thought the little brown hen,
+"if learning the gander's language does
+not help me to understand this beautiful
+song, I do not think it is worth
+bothering with. I shall never try to say
+'honk!' again."</p>
+
+<p>So she went back to her roost and
+listened till the nightingale's song
+ceased. Then she tucked her head under
+her little brown wing and went to
+sleep, her little heart singing within
+her.</p>
+
+<p>At daylight she awoke, and hopping
+down sought her companions, eager to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span>
+tell them the wonderful thing that was
+singing in her heart.</p>
+
+<p>"This is a beautiful, simple world,"
+she cried, "and I have learned a very
+wonderful thing!"</p>
+
+<p>But to her surprise, the creatures
+had no desire to hear what it was, for
+they were all in a flurry getting ready
+for their next lesson in honking.</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed, you need not bother about
+honking," cried the little brown hen,
+but nobody paid any attention to her.</p>
+
+<p>So she called her chicks about her,
+and went her way, clucking merrily,
+while they picked up bugs, and dared
+to peep once more when they found a
+nice fat worm.</p>
+
+<p>Meanwhile the class in honking
+made very little headway, for no sooner
+were they settled than they began to
+wish they knew what wonderful thing
+the little brown hen had to tell.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 366px;">
+<img src="images/i010.jpg" width="366" height="500" alt="THEY&middot;GATHERED&middot;AROUND&middot;AND&middot;LISTENED&middot;VERY&middot;EARNESTLY&middot;&middot;" title="" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>They craned their necks to watch
+her, and were filled with envy, seeing
+that she and her chicks feasted bountifully,
+with very little scratching, whereas
+<i>they</i> scratched in the barn-yard all
+day, and found only enough bugs to
+quarrel over.</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed!" said one old rooster, "we
+have learned nothing about the best
+way of scratching for bugs, with all
+our gabbling."</p>
+
+<p>"I should be glad," spoke up a duck,
+"to learn the wonderful thing that the
+little hen has learned, so <i>I</i> could keep
+from quarreling with my neighbors."</p>
+
+<p>They all grew quite uneasy, and the
+gander became very angry.</p>
+
+<p>"Such a stupid lot I have never
+seen!" he cried. "I have a great mind
+to let you go your ways and not bother
+with you!" and thereat he dismissed
+the class in high dudgeon.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The first thing they all did was to
+take after the little brown hen.</p>
+
+<p>"What is the wonderful thing you
+have learned?" asked the gobblers,
+shaking their red throats and looking
+very important.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh!" said the wise little hen, "I
+learned it by listening to the nightingale,
+and so can you, I presume, if you leave
+off that silly honking. Just gobble as
+nicely as you can when you have anything
+to say, but first be sure it is worth
+saying."</p>
+
+<p>The turkeys wished the little brown
+hen would tell them and save them the
+trouble of listening, but as they had
+paid no attention when she offered,
+they had nothing to do but follow her
+advice.</p>
+
+<p>So they stopped honking and did
+very little gobbling, for they found that
+they had not much of importance to say.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The ducks and the chickens and the
+doves all asked the same question, and
+the little brown hen gave them much
+the same answer:</p>
+
+<p>"Just quack and coo and cluck as
+nicely as you can, and have a care to
+lay nice eggs. Attend very strictly to
+your own affairs, for I have found that
+one learns a great deal by listening."</p>
+
+<p>As they all took her advice, the barn-yard
+became a quiet, well-ordered barn-yard
+again, with only so much cackling
+and clucking, and so forth, as to give it
+a business-like air.</p>
+
+<p>For each one was listening to hear
+when the nightingale came, and first
+thing they knew each one heard the
+same song as the little brown hen, for it
+was singing in all their hearts, and they
+understood it, whether they quacked or
+gobbled or cooed.</p>
+
+<p>"It does seem that there's a deal of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span>
+talking these days," said the little brown
+hen, "and it's mighty hard to listen; but
+even if the old gander does honk every
+now and then, nobody need pay any
+attention to him, for, after all, it isn't always
+those with the loudest voices that
+have the best things to say."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class='center'> <table class="harvest" summary="harvest">
+<tr><td align='left'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+<h1>The Little<br />
+Apple Tree Bears a Golden<br />
+Harvest</h1>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i011.jpg" width="400" height="379" alt="Tree" title="" />
+</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td>
+</tr></table></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>IN A thriving apple orchard full of
+trees richly laden with fruit, stood
+one hardy little tree whose apples
+remained small and green and hard.</div>
+
+<p>The little tree wondered why her
+fruit was so small, when that on the
+other trees grew so large and fine.</p>
+
+<p>"But perhaps as these are my first
+apples they are slow in ripening," she
+thought. "I must be patient and before
+long the beautiful color will begin
+to appear."</p>
+
+<p>So day after day she watched for
+some signs of color on the cheeks of
+the hard little apples, and time seemed
+to drag more and more slowly.</p>
+
+<p>But life in an apple orchard is not
+altogether uneventful, and the little tree
+became interested in finding she could
+take part in what was going on about
+her.</p>
+
+<p>One day there was a curious squawk<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span>
+in among her branches, and soon two
+robins, each with a worm in his mouth,
+came flying in through the thick-leaved
+boughs, to their nest in a crotch of the
+tree.</p>
+
+<p>"Our birdies are hatched!" they cried,
+filling the gaping mouths. "The little
+tree sheltered our eggs from storm and
+sun, and hid them so carefully that no
+one could find them. We are safer in
+this tree than in any tree in the
+orchard."</p>
+
+<p>The little tree was filled with joy at
+finding that, after all, there was something
+she could do to be of use.</p>
+
+<p>"I have watched the little blue eggs
+ever since you left them here," she said;
+and she seemed to snuggle her branches
+more closely about the nest.</p>
+
+<p>At last the little robins grew strong
+enough to fly, and the nest was left
+empty, though the young birds stayed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>
+in the orchard and often came to perch
+in the tree, and sing their song of gratitude.</p>
+
+<p>Indeed all the creatures about seemed
+to know that here was loving shelter for
+them. A little chipmunk made its home
+under the rock at the foot of the tree,
+and frisked up the trunk and among
+the boughs. Many birds perched in the
+branches and told wonderful song stories
+of what was going on in the world.</p>
+
+<p>A merry little flycatcher chose a
+small twig under one of the boughs of
+the apple tree, where it perched for
+hours, darting out when a fly or other
+insect buzzed by; but always returning
+to the little twig as if it were home.
+In the shade of the thick-leaved boughs,
+the friendly cows sought shelter, patiently
+chewing their cud, and switching
+their tails to shoo off the flies.</p>
+
+<p>And so the earnest little tree did all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span>
+she could to be of use, and was more
+beloved, though she did not know it,
+than any tree in the orchard. Yet she
+could not but think sadly of her little
+green apples, that seemed to show no
+signs of ripening.</p>
+
+<p>Many long summer days passed.
+The early harvest apples in their full
+prime were picked and barreled.</p>
+
+<p>Each day the golden pippins grew
+more juicy and golden; the big jolly
+Ben Davis, wine-saps, northern spies,
+bellflowers and many others ripening
+in their turn, filled the orchard with a
+delightful odor and glow of color; but
+the fruit on the one tree seemed as hard
+and backward as ever.</p>
+
+<p>The trees with the beautiful fruit
+laughed and whispered among themselves,
+and the little tree was very
+unhappy, for she thought they were
+laughing at her.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Surely my fruit <i>must</i> begin to ripen
+soon," she thought.</p>
+
+<p>But at night when the rest of the
+orchard was asleep, she wept silently
+to herself, for she wondered if it could
+be possible that her apples would not
+ripen at all.</p>
+
+<p>At last summer seemed to hold her
+breath. Day after day the warm sunshine
+beat down upon the orchard,
+drowsy with the richness and fulness
+of its almost completed labor. The
+trees now and then stirred their heavy
+branches, as if suggesting that it was
+time to be relieved of their burden.</p>
+
+<p>One day a flock of merry children
+came to the orchard to play. The day
+was cool, a gentle breeze stirred,&mdash;early
+fall had blown its first faint breath.</p>
+
+<p>The children frolicked all day, ate
+their luncheon on the grass, shook down
+ripe apples, and with the lengthening<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span>
+evening shadows, began to gather up
+their baskets, happy and contented and
+ready to go home.</p>
+
+<p>A cool evening breeze sprang up
+with sudden briskness.</p>
+
+<p>"Look at that black cloud!" cried a
+little urchin.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly the rain began to come
+down with a brisk patter; the children
+scampered quickly under the nearest
+tree; the dark cloud overspread the
+whole sky, rain pelted down, a great
+wind roared through the orchard,
+bending the trees, and causing their
+branches to wave wildly and a shower
+of apples to fall.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, where shall we go?" cried the
+children. "The apples are pelting us,
+and the rain drives in upon us."</p>
+
+<p>"Yonder under the little tree with
+green apples," cried one. "See how
+thickly leaved it is, and how low the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span>
+boughs bend; we shall be well sheltered
+there."</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/i014.jpg" width="289" height="392" alt="THE WARM SUNSHINE BEAT DOWN UPON THE DROWSY ORCHARD" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Quickly they rushed to the tree, and
+how gladly she gathered them in, and
+kept them dry under her loving arms;
+and not one of her apples fell off.</p>
+
+<p>Soon the shower was over, and the
+children scampered home, saying:</p>
+
+<p>"It's a good thing we were near
+that tree, or we should have been soaking
+wet. There isn't another one like it
+in the orchard."</p>
+
+<p>The little tree heard their words of
+gratitude, and wept for joy.</p>
+
+<p>The next day was bright and warm,
+and pleasant sunshiny weather followed.
+At last the haze of Indian summer settled
+lovingly over the country and the orchard
+rang with the voices of men and
+boys carrying baskets and ladders.</p>
+
+<p>"Too bad that equinoctial storm
+was such a blusterer," said one of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span>
+men. "These lazy trees have dropped
+much of their fruit, and it lies bruised
+on the ground."</p>
+
+<p>But they picked barrel after barrel
+of the rich harvest, and soon the little
+tree was left alone with her burden of
+useless fruit.</p>
+
+<p>Now the trees seemed prouder than
+ever, and talked boastfully about the
+fine apple harvest <i>they</i> had furnished
+for mankind.</p>
+
+<p>The little tree sighed softly to herself.</p>
+
+<p>"But I must not be unhappy," she
+said, "for if I cannot bear beautiful red
+and golden apples, there is surely some
+work for me to do, and I shall find out
+what it is."</p>
+
+<p>And now, though the little tree had
+not noticed that her apples had grown,
+her branches were bending almost to
+the ground with their weight. She
+tried to shake off some of the apples,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span>
+for it seemed to add to her disgrace to
+bear so much of this useless fruit. But
+she could no more shake them off than
+could the wind and storm.</p>
+
+<p>The clear cool fall days were passing,
+growing shorter and shorter. The little
+tree was very lonely now, for the chipmunk
+was snug in his winter home, the
+birds had flown south and the cows
+now looked for sun instead of shade.
+The other trees, having finished their
+work, were preparing for their long winter
+nap. The little tree way down in the
+corner of the orchard seldom saw any
+one, but she was stout of heart, and
+kept on saying:</p>
+
+<p>"I know I shall find some way to be
+of use."</p>
+
+<p>She did not pay much attention to
+her apples, for she had long ago given
+up hopes of their becoming red and ripe.</p>
+
+<p>Every night now white frost tripped<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span>
+daintily over the hardening ground, and
+at sunup disappeared; the days were
+cool and bright; the frosts grew heavier
+and the weather colder.</p>
+
+<p>One day there were voices in the
+orchard,&mdash;men and boys carrying baskets
+and ladders were coming; and to
+the astonishment of the little tree, they
+stopped under her boughs, placed the
+ladders in the branches and climbed up.</p>
+
+<p>"Good old apples!" cried one of the
+boys, dropping them into his basket
+with a plump.</p>
+
+<p>"A fine yield!" said one of the men.
+"Did you ever see anything more beautiful
+than this rich golden brown?"</p>
+
+<p>"The sweetest apple that ever grew!"
+said another. "I don't feel that I've had
+an apple till November brings these."</p>
+
+<p>"It's a wise Providence that saves
+this sweetest morsel for the last," declared
+a third.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The little tree listened, trembling
+with happiness. Could it be true?</p>
+
+<p>She gazed at the fruit on her heavy
+branches, and there, like drops of gold,
+tinged with the sombre violet of November,
+hung ball after ball of the
+luscious sweetness.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh!" she murmured, "how blest I
+am to have so much to give, when all
+the rest of nature is silent and sleeping.
+How happy I shall be, and how
+earnestly I will try to bear the sweetest
+apples ever grown!"</p>
+
+<p>At last the apples were all picked
+and carried to the great bins in the
+cellar, there to lie mellowing and sweetening
+for the farmer's use during the
+long winter months.</p>
+
+<p>And the little russet apple tree went
+to sleep, and took her long nap with
+the rest.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the
+Nightingale & The Golden Harvest, by Jasmine Stone Van Dresser
+
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+Title: The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale & The Golden Harvest
+
+Author: Jasmine Stone Van Dresser
+
+Illustrator: William T. Van Dresser
+
+Release Date: July 22, 2009 [EBook #29483]
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+Language: English
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+
+[Illustration: THE.LITTLE.BROWN.HEN.HEARS THE.SONG.OF.THE.NIGHTINGALE
+
+By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser]
+
+[Illustration: AND.WITH.THE.LENGTHENING. EVENING.SHADOWS.]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+          The Little Brown Hen
+          Hears the Song of the
+          Nightingale
+          & The Golden Harvest
+
+          By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser
+
+          Author of "How to Find Happyland"
+
+          With an Introduction by Margaret Beecher White
+
+          The Illustrations by William T. Van Dresser
+
+          [Illustration: THE.LOUDEST.TALKERS.ARE.NOT.ALWAYS.WISEST..]
+
+          Paul Elder and Company
+          San Francisco and New York
+
+_Copyright, 1908_ _by_ Paul Elder and Company
+
+
+
+
+                      TO
+             WILLIAM T. VAN DRESSER
+            BUT FOR WHOM THE STORIES
+          WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN WRITTEN
+           THIS LITTLE BOOK IS LOVINGLY
+                 DEDICATED BY THE
+                    AUTHOR
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD.
+
+
+It is the duty of all good, useful stories to give a message to their
+readers. The two dainty stories contained in this little volume each
+carries its message of truth. Pure, simple and wholesome in quality,
+they cannot fail to refresh as well as instruct those who receive them.
+
+In the _Golden Harvest_ the lesson of patience taught by the little
+apple tree's experience will bear rich fruit I do not doubt, and the
+wisdom of the little brown hen cannot help but teach us all to listen
+for the nightingale's song of harmony in our own lives.
+
+                                            MARGARET BEECHER WHITE.
+
+
+
+
+The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+A POMPOUS old gander who lived in a barn-yard thought himself wiser than
+the rest of the creatures, and so decided to instruct them.
+
+He called together all the fowls in the barn-yard, and the pigeons off
+the barn-roof, and told them to listen to him.
+
+They gathered around and listened very earnestly, for they thought they
+would learn a great deal of wisdom.
+
+"The first thing for you to learn," said the gander, "is to speak my
+language. It is very silly for you to chatter as you do. Now we will all
+say, 'honk!' one, two, three,--'honk!'"
+
+The creatures all tried very hard to say "honk!" but the sounds they
+made were so remarkable that I cannot write them, and none of them
+sounded like "honk!"
+
+The gander was very angry.
+
+"How stupid you are!" he cried. "Now you all must practise till you
+learn it. Do not let me hear a peep or cluck or a coo! You must all
+'honk' when you have anything to say."
+
+So they obediently tried to do as he said.
+
+When the little brown hen laid an egg, instead of making the fact known
+with her sharp little "cut--cut--cut-cut-ah-cut!" as a well-ordered hen
+should do, she ran around the barn-yard trying to say, "honk! honk!"
+
+But nobody heard her, and nobody came to look for the egg.
+
+The guinea-fowls way down in the pasture ceased calling "la croik! la
+croik!" and there was no way of finding where they had hid their nests.
+In the afternoon, when their shrill cries should have warned the farmers
+that it was going to rain, they were still honking, or trying to, so
+the nicely dried hay got wet.
+
+Next morning chanticleer, instead of rousing the place with his lusty
+crow, made an effort at honking that could not be heard a stone's throw
+away, and so the whole farm overslept.
+
+All day there was a Babel of sounds in the barn-yard. The turkeys left
+off gobbling and made a queer sound that they thought was "honk!" the
+ducks left off quacking, the chicks left off peeping, and said nothing
+at all, for "honk!" was too big a mouthful for them; and the soft
+billing and cooing of the doves were turned into an ugly harsh sound.
+
+Things were indeed getting into a dreadful state, and they grew worse,
+instead of better.
+
+The hens forgot to lay eggs, the doves became proud and pompous like
+the gander, and as for the turkey gobblers, they kept the place in an
+uproar, for they thought they could really honk! and they never ceased
+from morning till night.
+
+There's no telling what it all would have come to if there hadn't been
+one in the barn-yard, with an ear that could hear something besides the
+dreadful discords.
+
+One night the little brown hen was roosting alone in the top of the
+hen-house. All at once she was awakened by the sweetest song she had
+ever heard.
+
+She called to her chicks and to some of her companions to wake up and
+listen; but they were sleepy and soon dozed off again, so the little
+brown hen was left listening alone.
+
+"I will ask the gander what this beautiful song means," she said. "He
+knows everything."
+
+So she awoke the gander and asked him who was singing the beautiful
+song, and what it meant.
+
+The gander said gruffly: "It is the nightingale. I do not know what her
+song means. She should learn to honk!" And he tucked his head back under
+his wing.
+
+"Ah!" thought the little brown hen, "if learning the gander's language
+does not help me to understand this beautiful song, I do not think it is
+worth bothering with. I shall never try to say 'honk!' again."
+
+So she went back to her roost and listened till the nightingale's song
+ceased. Then she tucked her head under her little brown wing and went to
+sleep, her little heart singing within her.
+
+At daylight she awoke, and hopping down sought her companions, eager to
+tell them the wonderful thing that was singing in her heart.
+
+"This is a beautiful, simple world," she cried, "and I have learned a
+very wonderful thing!"
+
+But to her surprise, the creatures had no desire to hear what it was,
+for they were all in a flurry getting ready for their next lesson in
+honking.
+
+"Indeed, you need not bother about honking," cried the little brown hen,
+but nobody paid any attention to her.
+
+So she called her chicks about her, and went her way, clucking merrily,
+while they picked up bugs, and dared to peep once more when they found a
+nice fat worm.
+
+Meanwhile the class in honking made very little headway, for no sooner
+were they settled than they began to wish they knew what wonderful thing
+the little brown hen had to tell.
+
+[Illustration: THEY.GATHERED.AROUND.AND.LISTENED.VERY.EARNESTLY..]
+
+They craned their necks to watch her, and were filled with envy, seeing
+that she and her chicks feasted bountifully, with very little
+scratching, whereas _they_ scratched in the barn-yard all day, and found
+only enough bugs to quarrel over.
+
+"Indeed!" said one old rooster, "we have learned nothing about the best
+way of scratching for bugs, with all our gabbling."
+
+"I should be glad," spoke up a duck, "to learn the wonderful thing that
+the little hen has learned, so _I_ could keep from quarreling with my
+neighbors."
+
+They all grew quite uneasy, and the gander became very angry.
+
+"Such a stupid lot I have never seen!" he cried. "I have a great mind to
+let you go your ways and not bother with you!" and thereat he dismissed
+the class in high dudgeon.
+
+The first thing they all did was to take after the little brown hen.
+
+"What is the wonderful thing you have learned?" asked the gobblers,
+shaking their red throats and looking very important.
+
+"Oh!" said the wise little hen, "I learned it by listening to the
+nightingale, and so can you, I presume, if you leave off that silly
+honking. Just gobble as nicely as you can when you have anything to say,
+but first be sure it is worth saying."
+
+The turkeys wished the little brown hen would tell them and save them
+the trouble of listening, but as they had paid no attention when she
+offered, they had nothing to do but follow her advice.
+
+So they stopped honking and did very little gobbling, for they found
+that they had not much of importance to say.
+
+The ducks and the chickens and the doves all asked the same question,
+and the little brown hen gave them much the same answer:
+
+"Just quack and coo and cluck as nicely as you can, and have a care to
+lay nice eggs. Attend very strictly to your own affairs, for I have
+found that one learns a great deal by listening."
+
+As they all took her advice, the barn-yard became a quiet, well-ordered
+barn-yard again, with only so much cackling and clucking, and so forth,
+as to give it a business-like air.
+
+For each one was listening to hear when the nightingale came, and first
+thing they knew each one heard the same song as the little brown hen,
+for it was singing in all their hearts, and they understood it, whether
+they quacked or gobbled or cooed.
+
+"It does seem that there's a deal of talking these days," said the
+little brown hen, "and it's mighty hard to listen; but even if the old
+gander does honk every now and then, nobody need pay any attention to
+him, for, after all, it isn't always those with the loudest voices that
+have the best things to say."
+
+
+
+
+The Little Apple Tree Bears a Golden Harvest
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+IN A thriving apple orchard full of trees richly laden with fruit, stood
+one hardy little tree whose apples remained small and green and hard.
+
+The little tree wondered why her fruit was so small, when that on the
+other trees grew so large and fine.
+
+"But perhaps as these are my first apples they are slow in ripening,"
+she thought. "I must be patient and before long the beautiful color will
+begin to appear."
+
+So day after day she watched for some signs of color on the cheeks of
+the hard little apples, and time seemed to drag more and more slowly.
+
+But life in an apple orchard is not altogether uneventful, and the
+little tree became interested in finding she could take part in what was
+going on about her.
+
+One day there was a curious squawk in among her branches, and soon two
+robins, each with a worm in his mouth, came flying in through the
+thick-leaved boughs, to their nest in a crotch of the tree.
+
+"Our birdies are hatched!" they cried, filling the gaping mouths. "The
+little tree sheltered our eggs from storm and sun, and hid them so
+carefully that no one could find them. We are safer in this tree than in
+any tree in the orchard."
+
+The little tree was filled with joy at finding that, after all, there
+was something she could do to be of use.
+
+"I have watched the little blue eggs ever since you left them here," she
+said; and she seemed to snuggle her branches more closely about the
+nest.
+
+At last the little robins grew strong enough to fly, and the nest was
+left empty, though the young birds stayed in the orchard and often came
+to perch in the tree, and sing their song of gratitude.
+
+Indeed all the creatures about seemed to know that here was loving
+shelter for them. A little chipmunk made its home under the rock at the
+foot of the tree, and frisked up the trunk and among the boughs. Many
+birds perched in the branches and told wonderful song stories of what
+was going on in the world.
+
+A merry little flycatcher chose a small twig under one of the boughs of
+the apple tree, where it perched for hours, darting out when a fly or
+other insect buzzed by; but always returning to the little twig as if it
+were home. In the shade of the thick-leaved boughs, the friendly cows
+sought shelter, patiently chewing their cud, and switching their tails
+to shoo off the flies.
+
+And so the earnest little tree did all she could to be of use, and was
+more beloved, though she did not know it, than any tree in the orchard.
+Yet she could not but think sadly of her little green apples, that
+seemed to show no signs of ripening.
+
+Many long summer days passed. The early harvest apples in their full
+prime were picked and barreled.
+
+Each day the golden pippins grew more juicy and golden; the big jolly
+Ben Davis, wine-saps, northern spies, bellflowers and many others
+ripening in their turn, filled the orchard with a delightful odor and
+glow of color; but the fruit on the one tree seemed as hard and backward
+as ever.
+
+The trees with the beautiful fruit laughed and whispered among
+themselves, and the little tree was very unhappy, for she thought they
+were laughing at her.
+
+"Surely my fruit _must_ begin to ripen soon," she thought.
+
+But at night when the rest of the orchard was asleep, she wept silently
+to herself, for she wondered if it could be possible that her apples
+would not ripen at all.
+
+At last summer seemed to hold her breath. Day after day the warm
+sunshine beat down upon the orchard, drowsy with the richness and
+fulness of its almost completed labor. The trees now and then stirred
+their heavy branches, as if suggesting that it was time to be relieved
+of their burden.
+
+One day a flock of merry children came to the orchard to play. The day
+was cool, a gentle breeze stirred,--early fall had blown its first faint
+breath.
+
+The children frolicked all day, ate their luncheon on the grass, shook
+down ripe apples, and with the lengthening evening shadows, began to
+gather up their baskets, happy and contented and ready to go home.
+
+A cool evening breeze sprang up with sudden briskness.
+
+"Look at that black cloud!" cried a little urchin.
+
+Suddenly the rain began to come down with a brisk patter; the children
+scampered quickly under the nearest tree; the dark cloud overspread the
+whole sky, rain pelted down, a great wind roared through the orchard,
+bending the trees, and causing their branches to wave wildly and a
+shower of apples to fall.
+
+"Oh, where shall we go?" cried the children. "The apples are pelting us,
+and the rain drives in upon us."
+
+"Yonder under the little tree with green apples," cried one. "See how
+thickly leaved it is, and how low the boughs bend; we shall be well
+sheltered there."
+
+[Illustration: THE WARM SUNSHINE BEAT DOWN UPON THE DROWSY ORCHARD]
+
+Quickly they rushed to the tree, and how gladly she gathered them in,
+and kept them dry under her loving arms; and not one of her apples fell
+off.
+
+Soon the shower was over, and the children scampered home, saying:
+
+"It's a good thing we were near that tree, or we should have been
+soaking wet. There isn't another one like it in the orchard."
+
+The little tree heard their words of gratitude, and wept for joy.
+
+The next day was bright and warm, and pleasant sunshiny weather
+followed. At last the haze of Indian summer settled lovingly over the
+country and the orchard rang with the voices of men and boys carrying
+baskets and ladders.
+
+"Too bad that equinoctial storm was such a blusterer," said one of the
+men. "These lazy trees have dropped much of their fruit, and it lies
+bruised on the ground."
+
+But they picked barrel after barrel of the rich harvest, and soon the
+little tree was left alone with her burden of useless fruit.
+
+Now the trees seemed prouder than ever, and talked boastfully about the
+fine apple harvest _they_ had furnished for mankind.
+
+The little tree sighed softly to herself.
+
+"But I must not be unhappy," she said, "for if I cannot bear beautiful
+red and golden apples, there is surely some work for me to do, and I
+shall find out what it is."
+
+And now, though the little tree had not noticed that her apples had
+grown, her branches were bending almost to the ground with their weight.
+She tried to shake off some of the apples, for it seemed to add to her
+disgrace to bear so much of this useless fruit. But she could no more
+shake them off than could the wind and storm.
+
+The clear cool fall days were passing, growing shorter and shorter. The
+little tree was very lonely now, for the chipmunk was snug in his winter
+home, the birds had flown south and the cows now looked for sun instead
+of shade. The other trees, having finished their work, were preparing
+for their long winter nap. The little tree way down in the corner of the
+orchard seldom saw any one, but she was stout of heart, and kept on
+saying:
+
+"I know I shall find some way to be of use."
+
+She did not pay much attention to her apples, for she had long ago given
+up hopes of their becoming red and ripe.
+
+Every night now white frost tripped daintily over the hardening ground,
+and at sunup disappeared; the days were cool and bright; the frosts grew
+heavier and the weather colder.
+
+One day there were voices in the orchard,--men and boys carrying baskets
+and ladders were coming; and to the astonishment of the little tree,
+they stopped under her boughs, placed the ladders in the branches and
+climbed up.
+
+"Good old apples!" cried one of the boys, dropping them into his basket
+with a plump.
+
+"A fine yield!" said one of the men. "Did you ever see anything more
+beautiful than this rich golden brown?"
+
+"The sweetest apple that ever grew!" said another. "I don't feel that
+I've had an apple till November brings these."
+
+"It's a wise Providence that saves this sweetest morsel for the last,"
+declared a third.
+
+The little tree listened, trembling with happiness. Could it be true?
+
+She gazed at the fruit on her heavy branches, and there, like drops of
+gold, tinged with the sombre violet of November, hung ball after ball of
+the luscious sweetness.
+
+"Oh!" she murmured, "how blest I am to have so much to give, when all
+the rest of nature is silent and sleeping. How happy I shall be, and how
+earnestly I will try to bear the sweetest apples ever grown!"
+
+At last the apples were all picked and carried to the great bins in the
+cellar, there to lie mellowing and sweetening for the farmer's use
+during the long winter months.
+
+And the little russet apple tree went to sleep, and took her long nap
+with the rest.
+
+
+
+
+
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