De La Salle Fifth Reader

d sea, floated the seed-down, born

put it down on the ground, and laid a fallen leaf over it. Th

seed could not see where it was plac

d that the seed came near being destroyed; b

pressed the downy seed into the earth. When the foot was wit

y quietly down there, waiting for warmth and light. When the spring

ot see very far around, because rubbish and brush-heaps lay near it, and the li

re?" asked th

which lay near. "Why, the smith who drinks so

as not cheering; no, but fearfully sad. The shoe knew it all well, and t

e smith's boy and girl; he was six years old and the

girl. "So now, I shall pull it up," said the b

. Do you not see what pretty crinkly leaves it has? It

round about, so it looked like a plowed field. Then they threw the shoe and the

fter the children had gone, "you can

nd to be very orderly," said the half of a coffee-cup

in the upturned earth. Then leaf after leaf unfolded

en, who came again; "see h

have discovered such a pretty plant

so lovely on the little rough bit of soil

odded to th

an instant. "Yes, indeed, it does!" He went along, but thought of