O ne day a stranger cam e and saw t h e pine tree s
He thought their m usic was very b eautiful .
He liked their queer, needle - like leave s
He said, “ I must have a little tree
like that in m y own hom e .
”
So he took a little pine tree with hi m when he went hom e .
The poor little tree was very lonely in the strange la nd .
Its beautiful singing was all changed to sighing .
And so all trees like it still sing the sam e sa d song .
Wou ld you not feel lonely , i f y ou
were carried far away fr om your frien ds an d in to a stran ge l and ?
I once read a story of a bluebell .
A bird told it to a poet .
I cannot say that it i s tr u e , but it is very beautiful .
This is the story : O nce a little flower
lived down in a deep , dee p val ley .
Rocks rose very high on each side .
Trees grew on top of the rock s
It m ust have been very sti ll and
lonely down there .
This little flower was white , whit e as snow .
In the day it could se e just a narrow
strip of blue sky over i t s head . I t
would look up every day and think
What a beautiful blue the sky is .
Then at night one bright star would
com e out to cheer the flower
So every day th e little white flower loved and watched the blue sky.
Every night it looked up to the bright star .
Now com es the queer part of the story .
The little flo wer turned blue like th e sky it had watche d.
Inside of its cup cam e a little drop of d ew, bright like the star
Did y ou know that we are like the
flower in on e way
We grow to be like what we see an d love and think about very much .
SUMM
We know that the sun and rain woke up the plants in the spring.
When the spring is gone summ er com es . It is like noon .
It is the hottest part of the year .
What m ust plants do now ?
Wh y , th ey m us t work during t h e d a y , j u st a s we do .
Do you know what they do
They m ake seed s . In every seed they put baby plants like them selves .
Every kind of plant m ust do this .
It is so m u ch work that it take s som e of them all sum m er to get
done .
The sun helps ; the rain helps .
Every part of the plant does som e thing .
Som e day we shall learn how th e all help .
Summ er is the h ard - working part o f
the year for plants .