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graphs on every page, the text being squeezed into the sky or 
ae small areas of vacant space. I quote as briefly as possible 
the moral, which is what the old grandmother says to the 
children when they are going a-maying : 
« Little ace and — of the May, 
Lis 
If ie want 6 be 
Every one of you very good, 
In that ae toatl beautiful wood, 
Whatever you 
Leave some for good luc 
Picked from the aul or meee up by the root, 
From overhead or from underfoot, 
ond or brook, 
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And a bit for ae Nixies, 
And the Pixies. 
“Harken, my child : 
There is ee more destructive and wild, 
d bull with his hor 
° oi briar with ce thorns, 
More r ss and rude, 
And sey, of 7 es lovely and goo 
e of a boy and the ways of a bear, 
Than a gn with the 
Who doesn’t care, 
Or some ignore little minx, 
Who never thinks 
Now 1 never iaew so stupid an e 
That he could not think and care "a himself. 
Ob ! little sisters and little brothers, 
Think of others and care for others. 
And of all that ee ile ange find, 
Leave something behin: 
In another picture book . the same series,* a similar moral 
ends the story of ‘The Old Willow Man,’— 
‘Qh, children ! who gather the spoils of wood and wold, 
From selfish greed and wilful waste your little hands withhold. 
Though fair things be common, this moral bear ind, 
Pick thankfully and modestly and leave a bit eb ad. " 
* «« Boy and Squirrel.” 
