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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ... did when he was a boy. He said the squash bugs and caterpillars came back and were as friendly as ever. The same buff-colored bugs fed upon his roses; the butterflies came back, and also the bees and the birds. 6. He wondered if the yellow-birds would return; and he planted a row of sunflowers like the row which stood near the pear tree when he was a boy. As soon as the blossoms spread their yellow disks, and the seeds began to ripen, the yellow-birds appeared, twittering and fluttering about them as in his boyhood. 1. On the calm surface of the sea there lay, one morning, a tiny drop of water. She was looking up into the clear blue sky, and thinking how nice it would be to take a journey up into the air. She wanted to see the earth, the trees, and the flowers; and, small as she was, she wished to be of some use. "Floating gaily, sparkling brightly On a calm, still, summer sea, Spoke a tiny drop of ocean, 'Oh, that I of use might be!'" 2. "Can I be of any use at all?" she said to herself; "I am tired of lying here so quiet and still and useless. I wish there were fairies in these days, for then one might hear my wish and carry me away from here and show me what to do." "No sooner had she spoken Than a sunbeam, bright and golden As a fairy of times olden, Came to grant her wish." 3. "I have heard your wish," the fairy said to the drop of water, whose name was Ocean Pearl, "and if you will come with me I will help you to do everything you want. My name is Sunbeam, and I am one of the great number of kind fairies who try to do all the good we can." 4. "Give me your hand," said Sunbeam, "for I am to carry you high up into the air, that you may see the world. Then you will go down to the...
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