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I have seen it all,” and will be able to tell the whole 
story at once. 
I should like very much to meet that boy or girl, 
and I should like to take a country walk with him or 
her; for there are so few children, or grown people 
either, who use both their eyes to see with, and the 
brain which lies back of their eyes to think and question 
with, that it is a rare treat to meet and to go about with 
one of them. 
But I should be almost as much pleased to meet the 
child who says, “Well, I know that first the blossoms 
“come. Early in May they make the orchard so nice 
to play in. But in a few days they begin to fall. 
Their little white leaves come dropping down like 
snowflakes; and soon after, if you climb out along 
the branches and look close, where there was a 
blossom before, you find now a little green thing 
something like a knob (Fig. 2). This tiny knob 
Fig: 2 
keeps growing bigger and bigger, and then you see 
that it is a baby apple. As the weeks go by, the little 
apple grows into a big one; and at last the green begins 
to fade away, and the red and yellow to come. One day 
you find the great grown apple all ripe, and ready to 
eat. But I never could see just what made it come like 
that, such a big, heavy apple from such a little flower, 
and I always wondered about it.” 
Now, if we wonder about the things we see, we are 
on the right road. The child who first “sees” what is 
happening around him, and then “wonders” and asks 
questions, is sure to be good company to other people 
and to himself. (And as one spends more time with 
