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are that it will be carried at least a short distance before 
its seeds are dropped upon the ground. 
Once in a while a plant is rewarded for its pains by 
having its young carried thousands of miles. 
Think how far from its home the peach has traveled. 
As I told you before, it comes to us from Persia. 
Now, if the Persian peach tree had not made its fruit 
very juicy and delicious, it is not likely that any one 
would have taken the trouble to bring its seeds way over 
here to us. 
_ But this peach being what it is, one of the most delli- 
cious of fruits, the tree was rewarded for its pains by 
having its children taken where they were petted, and 
made much of, and had things all their own way; for 
no other peach trees were on hand to do their best to 
crowd them out. 
Then think of the little partridge berry. The fleshy 
part of this the birds eat and digest. But the little 
seeds pass unharmed from the bird’s stomach to the 
earth, sometimes many miles from the woods where 
they were born. 
What is true cf the peach and of the partridge berry 
is true of many other fruits. 
Without the help of man or bird or beast, these little 
seeds could at last get out of their seed cases; but’ 
without such help, often they could not get the start in 
life they need. 
So it would seem as if a fruit’s bright color and de- 
licious flavor were saying to us not only, “Come and eat 
us and set our seeds free,” but also, ‘‘and carry us far 
away, so that we may have a fair chance in the world.” 
