When were the five little brothers, do you ask? Why, they were
five little kernels of Indian corn that Farmer Lane planted one
spring morning, and each beautiful stalk of corn was the new life
the earth-worm told them about. God had taken care of them, and
takes care of of His little children, too.



Buttercup Gold

Did you ever hear of the pot of gold hidden at the end of the
rainbow? Some people think it is there now, but they are
mistaken, for a long time ago somebody found it. How he happened
to find it, nobody knows, for a great many people have searched
in vain, and have never even been able to discover that the
rainbow has any ends at all. The man who found it was very
selfish and did not want anybody to know, for fear they might
want some of his money. So one night he put it in a bag, which he
slung over his shoulder, and walked across the fields toward a
thick wood where he meant to hide it.

In the bag was something beside the gold--something so small that
the greedy man in his hurry had not noticed it. It was a hole,
and, as he walked on, one by one the gold coins fell out into the
grass. When he reached the wood and found all of his money gone,
he hurried back to search for it, but something strange had
happened. It was a midsummer night, and the fairies were having a
dance out in the meadows. They were good, loving little people,
and despised selfishness above everything. One little fairy spied
the glittering gold among the grasses. She had seen the greedy