WHY THE MORNING-GLORY CLIMBS

: For Kindergarten And Class I.
: Children Stories To Tell

Once the Morning-Glory was flat on the ground. She grew that way, and she

had never climbed at all. Up in the top of a tree near her lived Mrs

Jennie Wren and her little baby Wren. The little Wren was lame; he had a

broken wing and couldn't fly. He stayed in the nest all day. But the

mother Wren told him all about what she saw in the world, when she came

flying home at night. She used to tell him about the beautiful

Mo
ning-Glory she saw on the ground. She told him about the Morning-Glory

every day, until the little Wren was filled with a desire to see her for

himself.



"How I wish I could see the Morning-Glory!" he said.



The Morning-Glory heard this, and she longed to let the little Wren see

her face. She pulled herself along the ground, a little at a time, until

she was at the foot of the tree where the little Wren lived. But she could

not get any farther, because she did not know how to climb. At last she

wanted to go up so much, that she caught hold of the bark of the tree,

and pulled herself up a little. And little by little, before she knew it,

she was climbing.



And she climbed right up the tree to the little Wren's nest, and put her

sweet face over the edge of the nest, where the little Wren could see.



That was how the Morning-Glory came to climb.



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