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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM THE LIBRARY OF
MRS. ELLER HAVEN ROSS
JUNE 28, 1938

LONDON:

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.

DEAR CHILDREN.

"HAVE you ever, while walking abroad in the fields, Explored an old bank for the treasures it yields? Have you gather'd forget-me-not, sweet-smelling May, And join'd with them cowslips and butter-cups gay; Have you then added blue-bells and traveller's joy,

Pale primroses, daffodils, violets coy,

Pretty cuckoo-flow'rs, bryony, sweet meadow-grass,
Anemones, woodbine and love's looking-glass;

Have

you twined them together with twigs of the briar, And carried them home for your friends to admire?" "O yes, often." often."-" And so, my dear readers, have I—

To gather wild flowers I've ventured to try;