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Title: Parables from Flowers

Author: Gertrude P. Dyer

Release Date: January 6, 2009 [EBook #27718]

Language: English

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PARABLES FROM FLOWERS.

[Illustration: PARABLES FROM FLOWERS.

_Frontispiece._]

PARABLES FROM FLOWERS.

BY
GERTRUDE P. DYER,
AUTHOR OF 'LITTLE POLLIE,' 'ARMOUR-CLAD,' ETC. ETC.

_Doth not thy heart throb with emotions of thankfulness to God for
making the earth so fair, so redolent of beauty in its garniture of
flowers, and for having scattered these silent teachers up and down the
world?_

EDINBURGH:
W. P. NIMMO, HAY, & MITCHELL.

TO
MY DEAR LITTLE FRIENDS,
MABEL, ELSIE, AND RUBY TARR.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

I. THE FORGET-ME-NOT--FIDELITY 7

II. THE SNOWDROP--FAITH 22

III. THE FOXGLOVES' STRATAGEM--GRATITUDE 30

IV. THE LITTLE MINER AND HIS FLOWER--TRUST IN GOD 46

V. THE LITTLE SEED--KINDNESS 68

VI. THE CROWN IMPERIAL--HOPE 83

VII. THE TWO LEAVES--DISCONTENT 89

VIII. THE AMBITIOUS WILD-FLOWER--AMBITION 99

IX. THE HONEYSUCKLE AND THE BUTTERFLY--HUMILITY AND PRIDE 115

PARABLES FROM FLOWERS.

PARABLE FIRST.

THE FORGET-ME-NOT--FIDELITY.

In the days of the long-ago, my ancestors did not dwell as we do now--in
brooks or by the banks of shallow streams, but grew in wild luxuriance
beneath the shade of overhanging trees, and under the wayside hedgerows.

We were always a quiet, unassuming race, and