enner_ 41
A Sudden Shower. By _James Whitcomb Riley_ 43
Strange Lands. By _Laurence Alma Tadema_ 44
Guessing Song. By _Henry Johnstone_ 45
The Rivulet. By _Lucy Larcom_ 46
Jack Frost. By _Hannah F. Gould_ 47
Snowflakes. By _Mary Mapes Dodge_ 49
The Water! The Water. By _William Motherwell_ 49

HIAWATHA'S CHICKENS

The Swallows. By _Edwin Arnold_ 53
The Swallow's Nest. By _Edwin Arnold_ 53
The Birds in Spring. By _Thomas Nashe_ 54
Robin Redbreast. By _William Allingham_ 54
The Lark and the Rook. _Unknown_ 56
The Snowbird. By _Hezekiah Butterworth_ 57
Who Stole the Bird's Nest? By _Lydia Maria Child_ 59
Answer to a Child's Question. By _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 62
The Burial of the Linnet. By _Juliana H. Ewing_ 63
The Titmouse. By _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 64
Birds in Summer. By _Mary Howitt_ 65
An Epitaph on a Robin Redbreast. By _Samuel Rogers_ 67
The Bluebird. By _Emily Huntington Miller_ 68
Song. By _John Keats_ 69
What Does Little Birdie Say? By _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 69
The Owl. By _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 70
Wild Geese. By _Celia Thaxter_ 71
Chanticleer. By _Celia Thaxter_ 72
The Singer. By _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 73
The Blue Jay. By _Susan Hartley Swett_ 74
Robert of Lincoln. By _William Cullen Bryant_ 75
White Butterflies. By _Algernon C. Swinburne_ 78
The Ant and the Cricket. _Unknown_ 78

THE FLOWER FOLK

Little White Lily. By _George Macdonald_ 83
Violets. By _Dinah Maria Mulock_ 85
Young Dandelion. By _Dinah Maria Mulock_ 86
Baby Seed Song. By _E. Nesbit_ 88
A Violet Bank. By _William Shakespeare_