Thursday, May 31, 195 The Wisest Flowers Of A WATER LILIES NEVER HAVE TO WAIT FOR RAIN By MAX TRELL It wasn't a very large pond, but the banks curved deeply all around, with willow trees and tall reeds and marsh grass and creeping vines covering the ground up to the waters edge. And here and there, sometimes in clumps, sometimes by twos and threes, were the water-lilles--white blossoms and yellow, growing in the midst of the floating leav- THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL The Cookee Column Book Three, Entitled: POPO RETURNS BY HERBERT C. MERRY BUSINESS DIRECTORY ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL SERVICE BROWN ELECTRIC Phone 1059 Oakville CONTRACTORS bi Gord Brown BILL ANDERSON RADIO APPLIANCES Sales & Service Phone 521-M Dunn St. North Oakville L. F. CLEMENT HOME ELECTRIC AUTHORIZED FRIGIDAIRE ALER INSURANCE T. S. H. 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"Have you ever wondered, my dears" Ting-a-Ling sald after a long period of silence, "about the water-lilies?" "Wondered about them?" said Hanid. "Why should we wonder about them?" In the Woods Ting-g Ling smiled. "Flowens blossom in gardens. Mowers blossom In the fields and mead- ows. Flowers blossom in the woods. But how many flowers are there that blossom on the wa- ter?" Knarf and Hanid said they hadn't thought about that. "The water-lilles," sald Ting a-Ling, "are the wisest of all the flowers. Do you know why?" "Because," sald Knarf, "they never have to wait for the rain to fall. Other flowers do." "Very right" said Ting-a-Ling. "The sun may shine for weeks and weeks, and mot a drop of rain fall down. The flowers in the garden, the fields, the mea- dows and the woods would soon grow thirsty. But not the water- lilies. They have all the water they ever need." "But Ting-a-Ling" sald Hanid, "the other flowers have land to put their roots in" "So have the waterlilies," sald Ting-a-Ling. He leaned over the The shadows and Tinga drifted along es In" a rowboy play. The winter's coal supply was in most houses. Some had left it too late and were caught by the shortage. Storm windows were on and people were almost ready for Jack Frost. Crammond House was to be closed. Mother and Dad were going to live at the Halton Inn for the winter--still we had no place to live in Toronto. When we were almost on the point of glving up hope of ever getting any accommodation, the good news came. Cousin Ida, Dribbi's little old cousin, several times removed, phoned out to us one evening to tell us that she had found us a little apartment in Parkdale. It was very small but she had asked the landlord and we could have a dog. "You can 'have a dog--mot three dogs--a dog." Patsy sald. "Which means I am the dog. What on earth will we do with my kids? Oh sleepy toads wrap- ped in lambs wool, but we'll nev- er find anyone to keep that fight ing palr for us. What on earth will we do with them?" "Don't cross your bridges un- til you come to them, Patsy," I told her. "And don't you start deciding who will go and who won't. Just you leave the decls- fon to Dribbi and me." "Oh 1 know, I know," chimed in Pokee. "It will be the same old story all over again. Some are sheep and some are goats. And somehow it always turns out that I am a goat. I always am. 1 just know it--I just know it!" she walled as she wandered off behind the chesterfield to Commercial 'Sales & Service Livingston Stoker and Oil Burner Units Service & Installation of all Makes WORK GUARANTEED PHONE 1441 16 THOMAS ST. N. GENERAL ELECTRIC Oil Burners Commercial Refrigeration Sales & Installation A. E _ Phone 1544 side of the boat and dry y) cluster of water-lily leaves, gj leaf was attached to a long and each stem seemed fo deep down in the water, Toots of the waterlilios" Ting-a-Ling" are fixed iy { land, too. Tt is wet land, It fs pg 1t is the bottom of the pond. nevertheless it is land." They drifted on slowly for little while longer. "You would think," said mig alling, "that the watery] would be lonely sitting out I in the pond. But their frp) visit them just the same bees come. The dragon fl come. And often you will see 4 butterflies meeting for a si visit on a green floating yay lily leaf just off the edge of pond. They have company, ed though the rabbits and the fl] mice and the moles can only wy to them from the banks." In The Pond CARSTEN GLAHN, R.O. OPTOMERIST OPTICIAN Professional and Technical Services essential to eye care sulk and tell herself for the hun- dred and seventy-ninth time how hard done-by she was. "I won't get taken," she moaned. "I know I won't, because I'm a little bit on the simple side. I'll be left for sure. Oh woe is me, why did I ever come back? I should never have returned!!" "Oh dear, dear sistah!" said Fudgee to our utter amazement. "If you can't go, then I shawnt go eitha, 1 would miss you so horribly. And besides who should I fight with if you were not with me, my dear old Goat?" "Oh Fudgee, you are a miser- able soul, but I suppose, deep down in my simple heart, I do love you. I won't fight with you anymore--well, not much any- way. Well, I won't fight with you anymore today." The truce was made and the fighting sisters were friends at last. For a while at least. All was peaceful for that night. You can imagine it didn't take us long to get in to inspect the Parkdale Apartment. We broke the news to our new prospective landlord that we had DOGS, not a dog. 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B one day, to their surprise and i light, they found some clust of round leaves growing on if surface of the pond. And in ml summer, When the fields af meadows were bright with flo ers, the pond burst into bloom well--and they were all hap The flowers in the meadows id their head in the breeze. water-lilies don't toss their hea But "when the wind blows the water ripples, the water! ies dance. It is a dance all th own. No other blossom can i tate them. No other bl ; like the water-lily spends {fied zo summers in the pond." we had them in the car ready for his inspection. "Bring 'em and Ill look 'em over." he said with a rather du- Dbious look. "You know I never heard of anyone having three dogs travelling about with them, unless, of course, they were in a show." He giggled a silly giggle, then asked "What in the name of Sam Hill do you do with three dogs?" Dribbi tried to explain to him that we did the same with three dogs as anyone does with one. 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