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1. One day the children were out in the fields, running races, picking
flowers, and making daisy-chains!

2. When they began to feel tired and hungry, they got milk and cake out
of mother's basket, and had a long rest on the dry, warm grass.

3. 'How these buttercups shine!' said Dora; 'they look like gold!'

'Gold-cups, they ought to be called, not butter-cups,' said Harry. 'They
look like cups, don't they?'

4. 'But they would not hold water like real cups. Look at this one; it
is in five pieces.'

5. 'Five? Oh yes! And look underneath. There is another sort of cup with
five leaves in it.'

'Only it is not bright and golden, but green and hairy.'