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    Buttercup Gold, and other stories
    Buttercup Gold, and other stories
    Buttercup Gold, and other stories
    Ebook61 pages38 minutes

    Buttercup Gold, and other stories

    By Ellen Robena Field

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 2007

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    Buttercup Gold, and other stories - Ellen Robena Field

    Project Gutenberg's Buttercup Gold and Other Stories, by Ellen Robena Field

    This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

    almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

    re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

    with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

    Title: Buttercup Gold and Other Stories

    Author: Ellen Robena Field

    Release Date: September 21, 2008 [EBook #1978]

    Last Updated: January 26, 2013

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUTTERCUP GOLD AND OTHER STORIES ***

    Produced by Dianne Bean, and David Widger

    BUTTERCUP GOLD AND OTHER STORIES

    By Ellen Robena Field

    Copyrighted, 1894, by the Bangor (Maine) Kindergarten Association

    This book is lovingly dedicated to the dear kindergarten

    children, and particularly to my little friend, Alice Caro Wing.

    "Children are God's apostles, day by day sent forth preach of

    love and hope and peace."—Lowell.

              "Come to me, O, ye children!

              And whisper in my ear

              What the birds  and winds are singing

              In your sunny atmosphere.

              Ye are better than all the ballads

              That were ever sung or said;

              For ye are living poems

              And all the rest are dead."—Longfellow.

              "And Nature, the old nurse, took

              The child upon her knee,

              Saying: 'Here is a story-book

              Thy Father has written for thee."—Longfellow.

    CONTENTS

    The Little New Year

    Mother Nature's House Cleaning

    How the Raindrops and Sunbeams Helped

    Rock-A-By Baby

    A Child of Spring

    Mr. Frog's Story

    The Robin

    Easter Carol

    The Lily Sisters

    Nature's Violet Children

    Baby Caterpillar

    Five Little Indian Brothers

    Buttercup Gold

    The Raindrops

    A Fall Song

    The Babies' Blankets

    The First Christmas

    The Christmas Star

    Love's Garden

    The Little New Year

    One cold morning Maurice awoke from his dreams and sat up in bed and listened. He thought he heard a knock at his window; but though the moon was shining brightly, Jack Frost had been so busily at work that Maurice could not see through the thickly painted panes. So he crept sleepily out of bed, and opened the window, and whispered: Who is there?

    I am, replied a tinkling voice. I am the little New Year, ho! ho! And I've promised to bring a blessing to everyone. But I am such a little fellow I need somebody to help me distribute them. Won't you please come out and help?

    Oh, it's so cold! said Maurice; I'd rather go back to my warm bed; "and he shivered as Jack Frost, who was passing, tickled him under the chin with one of the frosty paint brushes.

    Never mind the cold, urged the New Year; please help me.

    So Maurice hurried into his clothes, and was soon out in the yard. There he found a rosy-cheeked boy a little smaller than himself, pulling a large cart which seemed to be loaded with good things. On one side of this cart was painted the word Love, and on the other Kindness. As soon as the New Year saw Maurice he said, Now please take hold and help me pull; and down the driveway and up the hill they travelled until they came to an old shanty.

    Here is where I make my first call, said the New Year.

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