LITTLE Hattie Vaughn was playing in the back yard, when she saw a
beautiful butterfly light on a clover blossom just outside the gate. She
wished she could catch it. So she opened the gate and walked softly the
butterfly.
Her hand was almost on it, when the butterfly rose lightly in the air
and sailed away toward the woods.
Hattie watched it. Soon it settled down on a wild lily the other side of
a rail fence. Hattie crawled through the fence and came close to the
pretty butterfly again.
But just as her hand came near, away it flew further into the woods.
Hattie followed. By and by she lost sight of the butterfly. She was
tired, and wanted to go home. But she did not know the way. She was
lost. She began to cry, and cried herself to sleep.
Brother Dick found her sleeping under a large tree. Dick and his father
had been looking for Hattie some time. He sat down beside her and
thought he would not wake her till his father came. But the moment his
father spoke, Hattie opened her eyes. She was not afraid with her father
and Dick near.
[Illustration: HATTIE AND THE BUTTERFLY.]