Part 14 (2/2)

The story, as I paraphrased it, was this The drop of water speaks, ”Once I lived with hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of brothers and sisters, in the great ocean There we all took hold of hands, and played with each other; and the winds played with us, and took us up on their backs, reat waves But sometimes, when the winds were not there, ould spread ourselves out slass, and look up into the sky; and the moon and the stars would look down upon us, and the ocean would look just like the sky

”And anted to go up into the sky; and so, when the sun sent down his sunbeams, and the moon sent down her moonbeams, and the stars sent down their starbeams, some of us would jump up on their backs, and ride up into the sky But soon they would be tired of us, and shake us off; and doe fell, and then ould catch hold of hands, and ot to be so heavy that the air could not hold theo of hands, and fall down in drops of rain But sometimes the clouds would stay up, and sail round; and one day the cloud that I was in, buainst a mountain, and we all fell out, down into the little holes of the mountain, and I soon found I was alone in the dark; but I saw a light a little ways off, and so I ran along and caht, which was outside the reatat just such holes as I was looking out of; andeach other, we burst out laughing, and ran to each other, and took hold of hands, and made a little brook that ran down the sides of the mountain into athe roots of all the flowers to ood as we could; and then we thought ould run on, and see if we could not find our old home in the ocean, where we left hundreds of brothers and sisters; but as I got rather tired, I thought I would stop and rest awhile on this flower-leaf But now I aood by; I will jump off, and run home as fast as I can with the rest”

This story I had to tell over and over again at the tiain repeated it in the sa at the picture in the book while I told it

NOTE F, TO PAGE 167

I here insert the version of the Lord's Prayer and the _Song of the Weather_, which have been found so effective in the religious nurture, and which, if used in the siested, will preclude the necessity of talking to the children in prose These songs explain theination

OUR FATHER, who in Heaven art, Thy name we dearly love; We'd do thy ith all our heart, As done in heaven above

Give us this day our daily bread, Forgive the wrong we do, And we'll not mind when treated ill, That we may be like you

Help us avoid temptation's snare; Deliver us frolory and all praise

SONG OF THE WEATHER

THIS is the way the snow coiveth his snow like wool, Fair, and white, and beautiful

This is the way the snow co

_Chorus_

Wonderful, Lord, are all thy works, Wheresoever falling; All their various voices raise, Speaking forth their Maker's praise

Wonderful, Lord, are all thy works, Wheresoever falling

This is the way the rain co; So he sendeth his welcome rain

On the field, and hill, and plain, This is the way the rain co

(_Repeat the chorus_)

This is the way the frost coh the night, shi+ning, cold, and pure, and bright, This is the way the frost co

(_Chorus_)

This is the way the hail co; So it flieth beneath the cloud, Swift, and strong, and wild, and loud, This is the way the hail co

(_Chorus_)

This is the way the cloud co blue, Till no ray can glisten through, This is the way the cloud co

(_Chorus_)