She balanced herself on the end of rainbow and worked away at the branches of w great bare apple tree with a silver stilette with which she deftly probed into the hardened wond and then with the tips of her fingers pulled out the faintest suspicion of green, This was Spring. She was onl; a little girl, slightly built xnd daintily clad, her hair of course was fair, and her eyes blue from continually gazing wt the skies above. She always smiled because it encouraged the sun to come out; and she knew by experience if she attempted to Jock augry—nnd this she only did when any thought fished acroes her mind of her life-long enemy Winter—the sun was discouraged and went in wulkily, Tt was of, however, us easy for Spring to keep up her continual smile as most people thought; for her hated rival hed much power and after he had paid " lengthened visit to the world—rejvicing the hearts of the rich children with his frost and snow and making the poor ones bitterly ould and hungry—he would leave it only to return again and all the hard work Spring had done so ly. No wonder the Spring came early this yea trembling; she concluded camped, and so, once at her work, she stuck to it and the world rejoiced accordingly,
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