Part 18 (1/2)

The round, but the nu at the sea Then they ran and told the terrible news, and all the village ca trenches and filled the what they could But while they fought in one place new armies of crickets marched down the mountain-sides and attacked the fields in other places And at last the people fell on their knees and wept and cried in despair, for they saw starvation and death in the fields

A few knelt to pray Others gathered round and joined theles and knelt beside their neighbors At last nearly all the people were kneeling on the desolate fields praying for deliverance froue of crickets

Suddenly, froreat salt lake, there was the sound of flapping wings It grew louder Some of the people looked up, startled They saw, like a white cloud rising fro toward the, in hundreds and hundreds, they rose and circled and caulls!” was the cry ”What does it ulls flew overhead, with a shrill chorus of whi cries, and then, in abreasts, they settled down over the seeded ground

”Oh! oe!” cried the people ”The gulls are eating what the crickets have left! they will strip root and branch!”

But all at once, so the crickets! They are eating only the crickets!”

It was true The gulls devoured the crickets in dozens, in hundreds, in swared, and then they flew heavily back to the lake, only to coain with new appetite And when at last they finished, they had stripped the fields of the cricket army; and the people were saved

To this day, in the beautiful city of Salt Lake, which grew out of that pioneer village, the little children are taught to love the sea gulls

And when they learn drawing and weaving in the schools, their first design is often a picture of a cricket and a gull

THE NIGHTINGALE[1]

[1] Adapted froo, as long ago as when there were fairies, there lived an emperor in China, who had a most beautiful palace, all arden in the whole world, and farther aas a forest where the trees were taller than any other trees in the world, and farther away, still, was a deep wood

And in this wood lived a little Nightingale The Nightingale sang so beautifully that everybody who heard her re else that he heard or saw People came from all over the world to see the crystal palace and the wonderful garden and the great forest; but when they went hos they alrote, ”But the Nightingale is the best of all”

At last it happened that the Emperor came upon a book which said this, and he at once sent for his Chaale?” said the E?”

The Chamberlain, as a very important person, said, ”There cannot be any such person; I have never heard his naale,” said the Eht here to sing for ”

The Chareat lords and ladies and pages where the Nightingale could be found, but not one of them had ever heard of him So the Chamberlain went back to the Emperor and said, ”There is no such person”

”The book says there is a Nightingale,” said the E forI will have the court trampled upon, immediately after supper”

The Chamberlain did not want to be trampled upon, so he ran out and asked everybody in the palace about the Nightingale At last, a little girl orked in the kitchen to help the cook's helper, said, ”Oh, yes, I know the Nightingale very well Every night, when I go to carry scraps from the kitchen to my mother, who lives in the wood beyond the forest, I hear the Nightingale sing”

The Chahtingale's home, and many of the lords and ladies followed after

When they had gone a little way, they heard a cow moo