THE ENVIOUS STREAM
WHAT HAPPENED TO IT
There was once a stream whien envied a gutter that ran by the side of a great high road because the oil from passing motors made it beautiful with many colours. So it kept sighiug—l give drink to the lovely-feathered birds, I water the brightly painted flowers, and I give a home to the shining fishes; would that I had colour too.
A new road was cut by the stream and motors passed and dropped oil into it The flowers withered, and the birds that drank of it and the fish that lived in it all died, but the stream thought it was beautiful.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 17
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111THE ENVIOUS STREAM Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 17
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