19. THE GARY TREE. 



TN 1832, Alice Gary was twelve years old, and her 

 sister Phoebe only eight. One day as these little 

 girls were returning home from school, they found 

 a small tree which a farmer had dug up and thrown 

 into the road. 



One of them picked it up and said to the other, 

 " Let us plant it." These happy children ran to 

 the opposite side of the road, and with sticks they 

 dug up the earth. 



In the hole thus made, they placed the little tree. 

 They threw the earth around it with their little 

 hands, and pressed it down with their tiny feet. 



How they watched that tree to see if it were 

 growing ; and how they clapped their hands when 

 they saw the buds start and the leaves begin to 

 form ! 



They were happy all through the summer days 

 watching it. When old Jack Frost and King 

 Winter came, how they feared these rough fellows 

 might kill it ; and when the longed-for spring came, 



