ration: "DOWN THE ROOTS GO" [fingers downward with middle 3
fingers together]]

[Illustration: "LIFTS ITS LITTLE HEAD" [thumb extended upward]]

High and higher still it grows
Through the summer hours,
Till some happy day the buds
Open into flowers.

[Illustration: "OPEN INTO FLOWERS" [palm up, fingers curved]]

[Illustration: "STILL IT GROWS"

ELEVATING THE ARM AND RAISING THE THUMB FROM THE HAND]

[Music: THE LITTLE PLANT.

EMILIE POULSSON.

C.C. ROESKE.

1. In my little garden bed
Rak'd so nicely over,
First the tiny seeds I sow,
Then with soft earth cover.
Shining down, the great round sun
Smiles upon it often;
Little raindrops, patt'ring down,
Help the seeds to soften.

2. Then the little plant awakes!
Down the roots go creeping.
Up it lifts its little head
Thro' the brown mould peeping.
High and higher still it grows
Thro' the summer hours,
Till some happy day the buds
Open into flowers.]

[Illustration: V. THE PIGS.]

V.--THE PIGS.

Piggie Wig and Piggie Wee,
Hungry pigs as pigs could be,
For their dinner had to wait
Down behind the barnyard gate.

[Illustration: PIGGY WIG [fingers of both hands extended sideways with
tips touching, left thumb raised]]

[Illustration: PIGGY WEE [fingers of both hands extended sideways with
tips touching, right thumb raised]]

[Illustration: BEHIND THE GATE [fingers of both hands extended
sideways with tips touching]]

Piggie Wig and Piggie Wee
Climbed the barnyard gate to see,
Peeping through the gate so high,
But no dinner could they spy.

[Illustration: PEEPING THROUGH [fingers of both hands extended
sideways with tips touching; index fingers slightly lifted and thumb
tips sticking through gap]]

Piggie Wig and Piggie Wee
Got down sad as pigs could be;
But the gate soon opened wide
And they scampered forth outside.

[Illustration: OPENED WIDE [hands held sideways away from each other]]

[Illustration: SCAMPERED FORTH [fists downward, thumbs extended
downward]]

Piggie Wig and Piggie Wee,
What was their delight to see
Dinner ready not far off--
Such a full and tempting trough!

[Illustration: THE TROUGH [hands cupped together]]

Piggie Wig and Piggie Wee,
Greedy pigs as pigs could be,
For their dinner ran pell-mell;
In the trough both piggies fell.

[Illustration: IN THEY FELL [hands cupped together, thumbs downward]]

[Music: THE PIGS.

EMILIE POULSSON.

CORNELIA