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Buttercup Gold, and other stories by Ellen Robena Field
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My Dear Helpers, Sunbeams, and Raindrops:--

You are needed down here on eurth. It is time to dress my plant
children, and give them work to do. The birds must be called back
from the South, and the cocooons must be opened so that my
butterflies can come out. I shall have to make good soil and get
my clover beds ready for the honey makers. Come at once, as some
have been sleeping too long already. Whisper to the trees as you
pass that it is time they were budding, Be gentle with all, for
they are my children, and I love them.

Good-bye, from your
Mother Nature

This she directed to the Sunbeams at Blue Sky Park, and the
Raindrops at Cloud Land. When the message reached these little
helpers, they started off at once to obey the call, and the sun
gave such a merry laugh, that Grandma came to the door of the
farm house and remarked: "How warm it is today, quite like
spring; I believe I will set out my geraniums." But just then a
silvery voice said: "Wait a little while longer till we make the
ground soft," and pop came a raindrop upon the dear old lady's
nose, and she hurried into the house, saying "What queer weather
we are having! first sun and then rain." Then the Raindrops and
Sunbeams smiled at each other, and danced more merrily, for they
knew what good work they were doing to the great brown house
where the flowers dwell.

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