at is how the pollen is carried.

Well, the modest little Blue-curls long had had a working agreement with
the Meadow Bees, and got on nicely. But one summer Blue-curls became
discontented. She saw all the other plants with wonderful gifts that had
power to cure pain and sickness; while she was doing nothing but live
her own easy life, and she felt she was a nobody.

So one day as Mother Carey's slowest steed was swishing over the grass,
Blue-curls cried out: "Mother Carey, Mother Carey, won't you hear me and
grant me a gift?"

"What is it, little one?" said the All-mother.

"Oh, Mother Carey, the pansy cures heartache, the monkshood cures
canker-lip, the tansy cures colds, and all the others have some joy and
honour of service, but I am good for nothing, Mother Carey so the wise
men despise me. Won't you give me a job? Won't you give me some little
power?"

"Little one, such an asking never finds me deaf. I love those who would
help. I will give you a little bit of _all healing_ so that you shall be
good medicine, if not the best, for all ills, and men shall call you
'Self-heal' and 'All-heal' for you shall have all healing in yourself."

And it has been so ever since. So that some who go by looks call the
modest little meadow flower, "Blue-curls in the Grass," but the old
herb-men who know her goodness call her "All-heal" or "Self-heal."

TALE 27

The Four Butterflies You See Every Summer

[Illustration: Summer Butterflies (a little over life size)]

There are four Butterflies that you are sure to see every summer, on our
fields; and remember that each of them goes through the same changes.
First it is an egg, then a greedy grub, next a hanging bundle-baby,
and last a beautiful winged fairy, living a life of freedom and joy.

In the picture I have shown the butterflies life size, but you must add
the colour as you get each one to copy.

The first is the _White_ or _Cabbage Butterfly_ that flits over our
gardens all summer long.

It is not a true American, but came from Europe in 1860 and landed at
Quebec, from whence it has spread all over the country. In the drawing I
have shown the female; the male is nearly the same but has only one
round dark spot on the front wings. Its grub is a little naked green
caterpillar, that eats very nearly a million dollars' worth of cabbages
a year; so it is a pity it was ever allowed to land in this country.
There are moths that we should like to get rid of, but this