You tell them to come out of their brown cradles .
They have been wrapped up there all winter .
It is tim e for them to wake up .
SU GAR MAKING .
I went into a sugar cam p .
I saw the big m aple trees .
They had no leaves on them .
It was t oo early in the Spring for leaves .
The sap had just begun to r un i n
the trees .
Som e of the trees had Sp i les i n them .
Then b u ckets were set under the spiles .
The sap from the tree would drop , drop , into the buckets .
The sap i s called sugar water ; it is so sweet an d good .
By an d by a m an cam e to get the
sugar water.
He put it in a big kettle over a fire .
The water boiled for a long tim e .
You kn ow that when the water
drop s get hot , they fly away .
The s ugar cannot fly away .
It stays in the kettle .
So the wate r in the kettle got
thicke r and s weeter as it boiled .
After a while it was m aple syrup .
When the m an m akes m aple sugar , h e boil s the sap longer still .
Then he stirs it and puts it in little pans to cool .
You know how good it is then .
Is it not q u eer, that the old tree can
get anything so s weet out of t h e ground ?
You or I could not do it .
H ow do you do , little Children
Here I come in
my gray fur coat .
Are y ou n ot glad
t o see m e ?
I am the first to
p e ep out in the s pring .
When y ou see
m e , you know that spring will soon be here .
Do you call m e pussy because I have fu r like your cat
You see I com e too e arly t o wear a thin dress .
I m ight be caught in the snow .
I have som e sister leaf- buds on this tree .
They have only thin green dresses .
T hey are not aw ake yet .
They are waiting for Father Sun to m ake the earth warm .
I d o not m ind a little cold .
I have such a ni ce fu r coat .
I just put it on , and j ump right out to tell you the good news
Jack Frost is soon to be sent up north again .
Then Spring will be here .