He went about among the little bushes , pinching the leaves . Then the little green leaves turned to brown and red and yellow and pretty soon they fluttered down to the ground , the Merry Little Breezes blew them about and all the little bushes were bare . They had no leaves at all to cover their little naked brown limbs . The little bush of which I am telling you lost its leaves with the rest . But all the summer long this little bush had been growing some of those little brown buds , which the other bushes had had in the spring , and now , when all the other little bushes had lost all the green leaves , and had nothing at all upon their little brown twigs , behold ! one beautiful day , the little bush of which I am telling you was covered with gold , for each little brown bud had burst its little brown coat and there was a beautiful little yellow flower . Such a multitude of these little yellow flowers ! They covered the little bush from top to bottom . Then the little bush felt very happy indeed , for it was the only bush which had any flowers . And every one who passed that way stopped to look at it and to praise it . Colder grew the weather and colder . Johnny Chuck tucked himself away to sleep all winter . Grandfather Frog went deep , deep down in the mud , not to come out again until spring . By and by the little yellow flowers dropped off the little bush , just as the other little flowers in spring had dropped off the other bushes . But they left behind them tiny little packages , one for every little flower that had been on the bush . All winter long these little packages clung to the little bush . In the spring when the little leaves burst forth in all the little bushes , these little packages on the little bush of which I am telling you grew and grew and grew . While the other little bushes had a lot of little flowers as they had had the year before , these little brown packages on the little bush of which I am telling you kept on growing . And they comforted the little bush because it felt that it really had something worth while . All the summer long the little brown packages grew and grew until they looked like little nuts .
When the fall came again and all the little leaves dropped off all the little bushes , and the little bush of which I am telling you was covered with another lot of little yellow flowers and was very happy , then these little brown nuts , one bright autumn XXXXX , suddenly popped open !
Chuck Frog bush day ground left something spring summer year