O velvet bee, you're a dusty fellow;
You've powdered your legs with gold!
O brave marshmary buds, rich and yellow,
Give me your money to hold!
O columbine, open your folded wrapper,
Where two twin turtle-doves dwell!
O cuckoo-pint, toll me the purple clapper
That hangs in your clear green bell!
And show me your nest, with the young ones in it--
I will not steal it away;
I am old! you may trust me, linnet, linnet--
I am seven times one to-day.
JEAN INGELOW.
ANDREWS, JANE.
The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children.
Ginn. .50
Miss Andrews's books were the pioneers of the great crowd of
present-day nature-books for young children, and they still
compare favorably in dignity and true interest with their
successors.
Amber, coal, the work of water, and seeds, are among the objects
in regard to which Mother Nature told her stories.
PRENTICE AND POWER.