Chit-Chat by Puck, from the Swed. by A. Alberg (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: front N the summer time, on a pretty little green hill, crested with birchen-trees, there lived a common butterfly with its chosen bride. The little butterfly was white, and pure as a glittering snow-flake, and its lady-love was a simple little darling white strawberry flower. They lived a life of joy and happiness in the tranquil wood, until one day a butterfly with brown velvet wings came on a visit from the meadows, and talked and bragged a good deal about its long journeys, and what it had seen and learned. It described, amongst other things, a garden, which was situated quite near to the wood and full of gorgeous flowers, one of which was so beautiful that all the flowers of the wood taken together could not compare with it alone. The butterfly from the meadows returned to its home, but the little white butterfly could not leave offthinking of the gorgeous flowers of the garden, and felt a great longing to see them. Next morning it prepared to set out on a journey to the garden, and in spite of the little strawberry flower shedding tears and begging it to stay at home with her, it went. In the splendid large garden, where many flowers grew and withered, where many butterflies dallied and flitted about, there grew a rose that had had its petals painted by the day-dawn, and was the most beautiful of all the flowers in the garden, though as yet it only coyly blushed and partly hid itself in the lap of the green calyx that nursed it. The butterflies of the garden fluttered round the rose and shook their left wings, meaning to say: " I love you!" And they were all gorgeously clad? some were dotted with gold, others variegated or striped, and many glittered in all the colours of the rainbow; but the rose closed its chalice to all when they wanted to kiss it, ...