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over the weary little children in our large manufactories, lie 

 begs Primroses for them : 



" Gather the Primroses, 



Make handfuls of the posies, 



Give them to the little girls who are at work in mills: 

 Pluck the Violets blue ; 

 Ah ! pluck not a few ! 



Knowest thou what good thoughts from heaven the Violet instils ? 

 " Ah ! come and woo the spring, 



List to the birds that sing, 

 Pluck the Primroses, pluck the Violets, 

 Pluck the Daisies, 

 Sing their praises, 



(More witching are they ^pm the fays of old) ; 

 Come forth and gather them yourselves, 

 Learn of these gentle flowers whose worth is more than geld." 



" Worship the God of Nature in your childhood ; 

 Worship Him at your work with best endeavour j 

 Worship Him in your sports ; worship Him ever ; 

 Worship Him in the wild wood ; 

 Worship Him amidst the flowers; 

 In the green wood bowers 

 Pluck the Buttercups, and raise 

 Your voices in His praise." 



HOWITT. 



The blossoms appear in March or April. It abounds in 

 woods and hedgebanks in many parts of Yorkshire, and Edward 



will tell us that it is lust as abundant in Kent. 





 brother the Cowslip (P. veris), is equally frequent with us. 



used to have grand excursions to gather Cowslips. There 

 were some fields near Hewick, in the Ripon neighbourhood, 

 which afforded a plentiful harvest of these flowers, and a busy 

 evening it always was after the spoil had been brought.Jiome. 

 We used to make Cowslip tea of the petals, adding sugar and 

 lemon-juice. It was such a treat to brew tea for ourselves, 

 that we always sat down to our feast with great delight ; but 

 we found it difficult to finish the beverage when we had drunk 

 a little of it. Then we made balls of the Cowslips, by placing 

 about thirty of the clusters astride upon a piece of string, and 

 then tying the ends very tight. But the greatest use of the 

 Cowslip is in making wine. When judiciously managed it is a 



