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    The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
    The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
    The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
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    The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

    By R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne and William Roscoe

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateOct 1, 2007
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      The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast - R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Butterfly's Ball, by R.M. Ballantyne

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      Title: The Butterfly's Ball

      The Grasshopper's Feast

      Author: R.M. Ballantyne

      Illustrator: R.M. Ballantyne

      Release Date: June 13, 2007 [EBook #21823]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL ***

      Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

      R.M. Ballantyne

      The Butterfly's Ball

      Chapter One.

      The Butterfly’s Ball And The Grasshopper’s Feast.

      Come, take up your hats, and away let us haste

      To the Butterfly’s ball and the Grasshopper’s feast;

      For the trumpeter Gadfly has summoned his crew,

      And the revels are now only waiting for you.

      On the smooth-shaven grass by the side of the wood,

      Beneath a broad oak that for ages has stood,

      See the children of earth, and the tenants of air,

      For an evening’s amusement together repair.

      And there came the Beetle, so blind, and so black,

      Who carried the Emmet, his friend, on his back;

      And there came the Gnat, and the Dragonfly too,

      And all their relations, green, orange, and blue.

      And there came the Moth, with her plumage of down,

      And the Hornet, with jacket of yellow and brown,

      Who with him the Wasp, his companion, did bring—

      They promised that evening to lay by their sting.

      Then the sly little Dormouse peeped out of his hole,

      And led to the feast his blind cousin the Mole;

      And the Snail, with her horns peeping out from her shell,

      Came fatigued with the distance, the length of an ell.

      A Mushroom the table, and on it was spread

      A Water-dock leaf, which their table-cloth made;

      The viands were various, to each of their taste,

      And the Bee brought the honey to sweeten the feast.

       

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