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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A cute story that tells a tale of selfishness. It teaches all to be good and kind.
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Buttercup Gold, and other stories - Ellen Robena Field
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Title: Buttercup Gold and Other Stories
Author: Ellen Robena Field
Release Date: September 21, 2008 [EBook #1978]
Last Updated: January 26, 2013
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUTTERCUP GOLD AND OTHER STORIES ***
Produced by Dianne Bean, and David Widger
BUTTERCUP GOLD AND OTHER STORIES
By Ellen Robena Field
Copyrighted, 1894, by the Bangor (Maine) Kindergarten Association
This book is lovingly dedicated to the dear kindergarten
children, and particularly to my little friend, Alice Caro Wing.
"Children are God's apostles, day by day sent forth preach of
love and hope and peace."—Lowell.
"Come to me, O, ye children!
And whisper in my ear
What the birds and winds are singing
In your sunny atmosphere.
Ye are better than all the ballads
That were ever sung or said;
For ye are living poems
And all the rest are dead."—Longfellow.
"And Nature, the old nurse, took
The child upon her knee,
Saying: 'Here is a story-book
Thy Father has written for thee."—Longfellow.
CONTENTS
The Little New Year
Mother Nature's House Cleaning
How the Raindrops and Sunbeams Helped
Rock-A-By Baby
A Child of Spring
Mr. Frog's Story
The Robin
Easter Carol
The Lily Sisters
Nature's Violet Children
Baby Caterpillar
Five Little Indian Brothers
Buttercup Gold
The Raindrops
A Fall Song
The Babies' Blankets
The First Christmas
The Christmas Star
Love's Garden
The Little New Year
One cold morning Maurice awoke from his dreams and sat up in bed and listened. He thought he heard a knock at his window; but though the moon was shining brightly, Jack Frost had been so busily at work that Maurice could not see through the thickly painted panes. So he crept sleepily out of bed, and opened the window, and whispered: Who is there?
I am,
replied a tinkling voice. I am the little New Year, ho! ho! And I've promised to bring a blessing to everyone. But I am such a little fellow I need somebody to help me distribute them. Won't you please come out and help?
Oh, it's so cold!
said Maurice; I'd rather go back to my warm bed;
"and he shivered as Jack Frost, who was passing, tickled him under the chin with one of the frosty paint brushes.
Never mind the cold,
urged the New Year; please help me.
So Maurice hurried into his clothes, and was soon out in the yard. There he found a rosy-cheeked boy a little smaller than himself, pulling a large cart which seemed to be loaded with good things. On one side of this cart was painted the word Love,
and on the other Kindness.
As soon as the New Year saw Maurice he said, Now please take hold and help me pull;
and down the driveway and up the hill they travelled until they came to an old shanty.
Here is where I make my first call,
said the New Year.