Produced by Al Haines [Illustration: Cover art] [Frontispiece: "'Why has your tree no flowers while ours are pink?'" (missing from book)] The Sun's Babies By Edith Howes Author of "Fairy Rings," "Rainbow Children," etc. With Four Illustrations in Colour by FRANK WATKINS Cassell and Company, Ltd London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1913 First published October 1910. Reprinted September and November 1911, August 1912, January 1913. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS The Sun-Man's Babies The Snowdrop Baby Little Golden Heart Dickie Codlin The Apple Fairy Johnny Crocus The Daffodil Baby Daffodils Willy Wallflower Sweet Violet The Cherry Children The Daisy Fairy My Garden Bed-time Pansy May Fairies The Dragon Gold Broom and White Broom Kitty Crayfish's Housekeeping The Garden Party Bluebells Cowslips Of Royal Blood Billybuzz the Drone Honey On the Hillside The Sun's Nest Crikitty-Crik The Discontented Root Creepy-Crawly Blackie Little Birds The Brownies Brave Rose-Pink Sweet-Pea Land Mrs. Frog, Mr. Frog, and the Little Frog Buttercups Spinny Spider Spinny Spider's Children Tinyboy The Mosquito Babies The Scrambler Woollymoolly Thistle-Mother Sally Snail's Wanderings Milly Mushroom Wiggle-Waggle The Leaf Fairies Bunny-Boy Love-Mother The Hill Princess Urchins in the Sea Where White Waves Play-- (I) Red-Bill (II) The Sea-Squirt who Stood on his Head (III) Bobby Barnacle's Wanderings (IV) Little Starfish (V) Kelp (VI) Black Shag (VII) Through Days of Growth (VIII) Fanny Flatface (IX) The Oyster Babies Fanny Fly At Sunset Summer Tears The Wheat People Chick-a-Pick Chick-a-Pick's Crow The Gorse-Mother The Proud Paling Fence Tail-up The Rain-Fairy The Disobedient Sunbeams White-Brier A Trip into the Country Grey-King The Season Fairies Spring Story Spring Time Summer Story Summer Time Autumn Story Autumn Time Winter Story Winter Time LIST OF PLATES "'WHY HAS YOUR TREE NO FLOWERS WHILE OURS ARE PINK?'" . . . _Frontispiece_ "WHEN SHE SAW TINYBOY, SHE HID HER FACE SHYLY IN HER CURLS" "IN THE WOOD THE LEAF FAIRIES WERE BUSY MAKING THEIR LEAVES" "SHE WENT TO THE AFTERNOON CLOUDS AND ASKED THEM TO PLAY WITH HER" THE SUN-MAN'S BABIES _The Moon-Man sent his stars to bed, And turned a pitying eye To where the Sun-Man sailed alone, Across the eastern sky._ _"Poor thing!" he said. "How sad to have No children round your knee. A thousand thousand stars are mine How lonely you must be!"_ _The Sun-Man laughed a jolly laugh. He pointed far below, To where the shining busy earth Swung golden in his glow._ _"A million million babes are mine," He said, "on yonder earth; My sunbeams wrap them all the day, To me they owe their birth._