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us, in preparing for another spring ! Now its work is 

 done, well done. Can the teacher ask for a better closing 

 thought ? 



CHILDREN'S PAPERS ON FLOWERS. 

 LITTLE Miss BUTTERCUP. 



u I ain a little buttercup. My flower is bright yellow. They stand 

 tall and straight. When the sun shines on them they look so pretty. 

 If we were shut in a box and could not get air we would die. We 

 have to drink water and milk. If we did not have it we would die. 

 It is the same with the plant. When it rains the leaves send the wa- 

 ter to the roots and the roots send it to the leaves again. The flower 

 would die without the rain and so would we. God sends the rain and 

 the sun to make us grow. He sends the rain and the sun for the 

 flower too. If the flower did not get water in the summer it would 

 die. Buttercups are wild flowers. But God likes them just as well 

 as the flowers that are not wild." URSULA KANE, SECOND GRADE. 



THE BUTTERCUP. 1 



li It is called the buttercup because it looks like a dish of butter. 

 We find them in pastures, meadows and fields. It grows in every 

 kind of soil but swamp soil. It burns your tongue when you taste of 

 it. And it tastes like pepper. 



"It grows straight up in the air and it is a foot and 7 inches high 

 so it can get the sun. It has a little slender branching stem and the 

 blossoming is most in June. We can find it as late as October. 



" It is attached by the root to the ground. The roots come from 

 the same place and they are long and slender. There are a great 

 many roots. They are from two to four inches long. They are very 

 strong. The little branches get the water because they can get more 

 water when they spread out. The use of the root is to hold it in the 

 ground." WILLIE ALLEN, THIRD GRADE. 



THE BUTTERCUP (CONTINUED). 



44 The buttercup we had this morning was 27 inches high. It is so 

 high because it wants to get the sun or the little bees will come and 

 get the honey. 



1 The three papers on the buttercup were written in answer to a series of 

 questions, all the members of the class writing answers to the questions, but each 

 answering in his own way. The papers represent three days' written work, about 

 half an hour each day. All wrote with the buttercup before them. 



