The Spacious Firmament on High (poem) _Joseph Addison_ 125 GREEN FIELDS AND MEADOWS GAY Nature's Song (selection) _Madison Cawein_ 128 The Gift of Flax (Norse Legend) _Eleanor L. Skinner_ 129 The Story of the Dewdrop _Lucille Corbett_ 136 The Dew Mother (poem) _May Byron_ 140 Origin of the Dandelion (Indian Legend Retold) _Eleanor L. Skinner_ 141 Prince Butterfly and Clover (Retold from the poem by Louisa M. Alcott) _Ada M. Skinner_ 146 A Song of Clover _Saxe Holm_ 152 Tithonus: A Legend of the Grasshopper _Lillian S. Hyde_ 153 The Grasshopper (poem) _Edith M. Thomas_ 155 The Golden Grasshopper _Charles Lamb_ 156 A Blade of Grass _John Ruskin_ 159 Selection _Charles Dalmon_ 162 Princess Fire-Fly (Japanese Legend, adapted) _Frank Rinder_ 163 July (selection) _Susan Hartley Swett_ 168 Cuff and the Woodchuck _John Burroughs_ 169 Why the Lady-Bug Is Said to Be Beloved of God—Translated from the French by _M. L. Cook_ 173 SUMMER SPINNERS Selection _Madison Cawein_ 182 The Story of Arachne _Eleanor L. Skinner_ 183 How the Spider Makes Its Web _C. William Beebe_ 188 The Fairy Spinner (Southern Tale Retold) _Ada M. Skinner_ 192 Mother Spider _Frances Gillespy Wickes_ 195 IN BROOKS AND PONDS The Brook _Alfred Tennyson_ 200 Legend of the Water-Lily _Eleanor L. Skinner_ 201 The Tale of Two Tails _Mary H. Wilson_ 205 Origin of Bullfrogs (Algonquin Legend) _Eleanor L. Skinner_ 212 Woodland Waters (poem) _Madison Cawein_ 221 The Grubbiest Grub _J. Bevan_ 222 The Dragon-Fly (poem) _Alfred Tennyson_ 231 ON THE WING Selection _John Masefield_ 234 Selection _William Blake_ 234 How Woodpecker Changed His Colours (Micmac Legend) _Eleanor L. Skinner_ 235 A Retort from the Catbird (poem) _Abbie Farwell Brown_ 238 Woodpecker Life _Margaret Coulson Walker_ 239