Buttercup Gold And Other Stories

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <p><br/><br/></p> <h1> BUTTERCUP GOLD AND OTHER STORIES </h1> <p><br/></p> <h2> By Ellen Robena Field </h2> <p><br/><br/></p> <h4> Copyrighted, 1894, by the Bangor (Maine) Kindergarten Association <br/> <br/> This book is lovingly dedicated to the dear kindergarten<br/> children, and particularly to my little friend, Alice Caro Wing. <br/> <br/> "Children are God's apostles, day by day sent forth preach of<br/> love and hope and peace."&mdash;Lowell. </h4> <p>"Come to me, O, ye children!<br/> And whisper in my ear<br/> What the birds and winds are singing<br/> In your sunny atmosphere.<br/> <br/> Ye are better than all the ballads<br/> That were ever sung or said;<br/> For ye are living poems<br/> And all the rest are dead."&mdash;Longfellow.<br/></p> <p>"And Nature, the old nurse, took<br/> The child upon her knee,<br/> Saying: 'Here is a story-book<br/> Thy Father has written for thee."&mdash;Longfellow.<br/></p> <p><br/></p> <hr /> <p><br/></p> <blockquote> <p><big><b>CONTENTS</b></big></p> <p><br/></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0001"> The Little New Year </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0002"> Mother Nature's House Cleaning </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0003"> How the Raindrops and Sunbeams Helped </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0004"> Rock-A-By Baby </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0005"> A Child of Spring </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0006"> Mr. Frog's Story </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0007"> The Robin </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0008"> Easter Carol </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0009"> The Lily Sisters </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0010"> Nature's Violet Children </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0011"> Baby Caterpillar </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0012"> Five Little Indian Brothers </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0013"> Buttercup Gold </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0014"> The Raindrops </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0015"> A Fall Song </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0016"> The Babies' Blankets </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0017"> The First Christmas </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0018"> The Christmas Star </SPAN></p> <p><SPAN href="#link2H_4_0019"> Love's Garden </SPAN></p> </blockquote> <p><br/></p> <hr /> <p><SPAN name="link2H_4_0001" id="link2H_4_0001"></SPAN></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />