Mabel Dearmer

“ I was quite a tiny green bud I was a very discontented little thing like you until one day as your Mamma came past me a small violet dropped from her dress, and, when it heard me complaining, said 'Why are you not pleased to grow here in this nice little garden with the beautiful warm sun shining on you, making you look so lovely. How would you like to be put down on the ground to grow like a daisy, or be as I was, where you could hardly feel the sun, and where you had no companions to talk to, and stood the chance of being trodden on and having all your petals crushed? ”

“ You are not in danger of anything, and, by-and-by, think what a pleasure you will be to everyone when you get into full blossom. felt very much ashamed of myself, and made up my mind not to be discontented again, and in a few days I found everybody noticing me instead of
passing me by.
that is just what you must do, continued the blossom, "and you will soon find that people will love instead of disliking you."
was a great friend of Gertie's. She was a very delicate child, and the cottage where she lived had no nice flowers in the garden. ”

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