JACK FROST AND THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 145, 20 June 1931, Page 18 (Supplement)

JACK FROST AND THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

One fine, frosty winter morning Jack Frost eyed the chrysanthemums. “ Ah, ha,” he said. “I have got you now, for the lady forgot to cover you last night,” he went on cruelly. A little chrysanthemum dressed in pink sighed bitterly, then began to cry. Soon Jack Frost began biting her and she cried all the more. After breakfast the lady came out to have a look at them. When she came to the pink chrysanthemum she said: “Oh, that wdeked frost has spoilt my favourite flower.” Then she told the lady living next door to her her sad tale. “Do you know, I put old, thick blankets on top of mine, and even then the wretched frost got somehow at them. I think,” she went on, “ that frost the other day was fourteen degrees. My father sent me those lovely pale pink chrysanthemums, which I greatly prized. I also have another nice one, a long, curly, yellow kind, so I must remember to put some thick covers on them to-night.” So when she arrived home she told her husband what the lady next door said about the matter, and that if she forgot to cover them the frost would surely get them. “ It’s so funny,” she said, “ the frost never seems to do any harm to the poor ones. And what do you think! The next-door neighbour told me it was fourteen degrees. No wonder it went through her old, thick blankets. Haven’t you noticed that the chrysanthemums are later this year? So I must cover them before I forget.” Off she went to do so. Marie Chrystal.

Winter Time. Snow! Snow! How the winds blow, Across the sky the white flakes go. Cold! Jack Frost is bold. He nips the fingers of young and oTd. On winter evenings we will sit Around a blazing fire and knit. And now the frosty days have come I think the winter splendid fun. Kathleen Few.

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