Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: A WINTER SCENE] Oh come to the window, dear brother, and see What a change has been made in the night; The snow is all over the big cedar tree, And the ground, too, is covered with white. _James Taylor._ WATER WONDERS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW LITTLE STUDIES OF DEW, FROST, SNOW, ICE AND RAIN BY JEAN M. THOMPSON ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY WILSON A. BENTLEY [Illustration: Publisher Logo] NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1907, by Doubleday, Page & Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian TO G. W. R. I DEDICATE THIS LITTLE BOOK, AS AN EXPRESSION OF APPRECIATION AND ESTEEM NOTE I am greatly indebted to Mr. Wilson A. Bentley for valuable assistance in the arrangement of this book, and particularly for permission to reproduce the microphotographs. Jean M. Thompson. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. When the Dew Falls 5 II. The Coming of the Hoar Frost 37 III. Etchings by Jack Frost 65 IV. Mysteries and Beauties of the Snow 97 V. Ice and Its Formation 169 VI. The Beneficent Rain 205 ILLUSTRATIONS