scented it, and found no thorn to pierce--no juice or odor to poison you
in its whole circle, wear it for the giver's sake; and enjoy it and
profit by its healthful influences, for your own.

Gladly would I feel assured that, in some future years,--when I shall
have done with earthly flowers, and you will be engaged in the busy
scenes and arduous duties of mature life,--the import of these leaves
may from time to time arise to your memory, in all its dewy freshness,
like the fragrance which the summer-breeze wafts after us, from the
lilies and violets we have passed and left far behind us, in our morning
rambles. Then, if not to-day, you will be convinced that I was--as now I
am,

Your true Friend,

H. F. GOULD.

Newburyport, Mass., August, 1850.

CONTENTS

The Sale of the Water-Lily

The Humming-Bird's Anger

The Butterfly's Dream

The Boy and the Cricket

Fanny Spy

Sudden Elevation

The Stricken Bird

The Young Sportsman

The Pebble and the Acorn

The Grasshopper and the Ant

The Rose-Bud of Autumn

Frost, the Winter-Sprite

Vivy Vain

The Lost Kite

The Summer-Morning Ramble

The Shoemaker

The Snow-Storm

The Whirlwind

The Disobedient Skater Boys

Winter and Spring

Tom Tar

The Envious Lobster

The Crocus' Soliloquy

The Bee, Clover, and Thistle

Poor Old Paul

The Sea-Eagle's Fall

The Two Thieves

Jemmy String

The Caterpillar

The Mocking Bird

The Silk-Worm's Will

Dame Biddy

Kit with the Rose

The Captive Butterfly

The Dissatisfied Angler Boy

The Stove and Grate-Setter

Song of the Bees

Summer is Come

The Morning-Glory

The Old Cotter and his Cow

The Speckled One

The Blind Musician

The Lame Horse

The Mushroom's Soliloquy

The Lost Nestlings

The Bat's Flight by Daylight

Idle Jack

David and Goliath

Escape of the Doves

Edward and Charles

The Mountain Minstrel

The Veteran and the Child

Captain Kidd

The Dying Storm

The Little Traveller

=The Sale of the Water-Lily=

And these would sometimes come, and cheer
The widow with a song,
To let her feel a neighbor near,
And wing an hour along.

A pond, supplied by hidden springs,
With lilies bordered round,
Was found among the richest things,
That blessed the widow's ground.

She had, besides, a gentle brook,
That wound the meadow through,
Which from the pond its being took,
And had its treasures too.

Her eldest orph