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LADYBUG. 1 Cara W. Bronson 30 



MILKWEED PODS.* Elizabeth M. Howell . . . 32 



THE SUN 



APOLLO'S MOTHER 33 



BIRTH OF APOLLO '.- .35 



KILLING OF THE PYTHON 37 



THE SUNBEAMS. 2 Emilie Poulsson . . . . .39 



APOLLO AND HYACINTHUS 40 



STORY OF PHAETHON ....... 44 



To APOLLO. Keats 50 



IRIS 50 



THE RAINBOW. Wordsworth 52 



IF I WERE A SuNBEAM. 3 Lucy Larcom 53 



THE MOON 



DIANA 54 



DIANA AND ENDYMION 56 



BABY AND THE MOON. Adapted from Froebel . . 58 



THE HOTTENTOT MOON STORY 59 



YUM SING . 62 



1 From the Youth's Companion, with the kind permission of the 

 publishers. 



2 From "In the Child's World," Messrs. Milton Bradley and Com- 

 pany, with the kind permission of Miss Poulsson. 



3 Poems of Longfellow, Emerson, Phoebe and Alice Gary, Miss Lar- 

 com, Mrs. Thaxter, and Mr. F. D. Sherman are here reprinted through 

 the kind permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 



