SNOWFLAKE
ONCE UPON A TIME,
THERE WAS A SMALL SNOWFLAKE. HE WAS BORN ONE MORNING DURING THE
FIRST SNOW FALL OF THE WINTER. AS HE FELL SO SLOWLY TO THE ALREADY
SNOW COVERED EARTH HE NOTICED THE CHILDREN PLAYING IN THE SNOW. THEY
WORE BRIGHT COLORFUL COATS AND STOCKING CAPS WITH A PUFFY TASSEL ON
THE TOP, THAT WOULD BOUNCE ALL AROUND AS THEY RAN AND ROLLED IN THE
SNOW. THEIR LAUGHTER COULD BE HEARD, AS THEY WOULD MAKE A SNOWBALL
TOSSING IT IN THE AIR FOR THE PUPPY TO CHASE. LITTLE SNOWFLAKE COULD
HARDLY WAIT TO LAND ON THE SNOW BELOW SO HE COULD PLAY WITH ALL THE
CHILDREN.
JUST AS SNOWFLAKE
TOUCHED THE GROUND, A LITTLE BOY WHO HAD BEEN HIDING BEHIND A TREE
REACHED DOWN AND SCOOPED UP A HANDFUL OF SNOW. SNOWFLAKE FELT EAGER
TO BE HIS FRIEND AND WAS HAPPY. THE BOY PRESSED ALL THE SNOW VERY
TIGHT AND THE BALL BECAME VERY HARD. “OH BOY,” THOUGHT THE
LITTLE SNOWFLAKE, “NOW I WILL BE ABLE TO PLAY WITH THE CHILDREN.”
SNOWFLAKE WAS SOON
TO LEARN THIS WAS NOT A VERY NICE LITTLE BOY, HE DID NOT INTEND TO
PLAY WITH THE OTHER CHILDREN. HIS FACE WAS WRINKLED WITH A FROWN AND
HIS MOUTH HAD A SLY GRIN AS HE PEERED AROUND THE TREE, WHERE HE HAD
BEEN HIDING. HE WATCHED AS THE CHILDREN PLAYED, WAITING FOR THEM TO
COME CLOSER. SNOWFLAKE WAS CONFUSED AND HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND.
THE BOY WATCHED AS
A SMALL BOY, WHO WAS TOSSING A SNOWBALL FOR HIS PUPPY CAME CLOSER TO
THE TREE. HE WAS LAUGHING, AS HIS PUPPY WOULD JUMP AND RUN AFTER THE
SNOWBALL. THEY DID NOT NOTICE THE BOY WITH THE FROWN. AS THE SMALL
BOY THREW HIS SNOWBALL CLOSE TO THE TREE, THE PUPPY RAN HAPPILY TO
FETCH IT, SUDDENLY THE FROWNING BOY JUMPED OUT FROM BEHIND THE TREE
AND THREW HIS HARD SNOWBALL WHERE SNOWFLAKE WAS SO FIRMLY PRESSED.
TO SNOWFLAKES HORROR, IT WAS FLYING TOWARDS THE LITTLE BOYS FACE.
SNOWFLAKE WAS HELPLESS AND COULD NOT STOP FROM HITTING THE LITTLE
BOY.
“OH HOW AWFUL
SNOWFLAKE FELT!” HE NEVER WANTED TO HURT THE LITTLE BOY; HE ONLY
WANTED TO PLAY WITH THE CHILDREN. THE SMALL BOY COVERED HIS FACE AND
BEGAN TO CRY. THE FROWNING BOY RAN AWAY LAUGHING HE WAS A VERY NASTY
LITTLE BOY. ALL OF THE OTHER CHILDREN CAME RUNNING WIPING THE SNOW
FROM THE BOYS FACE AND WIPING HIS TEARS WITH THEIR MITTENS. THEY
HUGGED AND KISSED HIM UNTILL HE STOPPED CRYING. THE LITTLE SNOWFLAKE
FELL TO THE GROUND IN A HEAP. IF IT WERE POSSIBLE HE WOULD HAVE
CRIED ALSO, BUT HE COULD ONLY JUST MELT. THE PUPPY CAME TO WHERE HE
WAS AND BEGAN TO ROLL IN THE SNOW AND AS HE DID LITTLE SNOWFLAKE
STUCK TO HIS NOSE. PUPPY BEGAN TO BARK, ALL THE CHILDREN SAW THIS,
AND THEY LAUGHED AT SUCH WHAT A CUTE SNOWFLAKE THIS WAS. THE LITTLE
BOY WALKED OVER TO THE PUPPY AND WIPED THE SNOWFLAKE ONTO HIS MITTEN.
HE SMILED AND SAID THIS WAS THE PRETTIEST SNOWFLAKE HE HAD EVER
SEEN, AS IT GLISSENED IN THE SUN LIGHT.
NEVER AGAIN WAS
SNOWFLAKE SAD. HE WOULD ALWAYS BE HAPPY FOR THE NICE LITTLE CHILDREN
THAT CAME TO PLAY IN THE FRESH NEW SNOW. REMEMBER THAT FOR EVERY
SNOWFLAKE THERE ARE NO TWO ALIKE AND THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE A
SNOWFLAKE FALL FROM THE SKY REMEMBER THIS LITTLE SNOWFLAKE AND SMILE.
HE WILL ALWAYS COME BACK TO PLAY WITH THE CHILDREN DURING THE NEXT
NEW SNOWFALL.
THE END
HELEN KLINE
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