文档介绍：The Project Gutenberg Etext of Flower Fables
Flower Fables
by Louisa May Alcott
"Pondering shadows, colors, clouds Grass-buds, and caterpillar
shrouds Boughs on which the wild bees settle, Tints that spot the
violet's petal."
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The Project Gutenberg Etext of Flower Fables
FLOWER FABLES.
THE summer moon shone brightly down upon the sleeping earth,
while far away from mortal eyes danced the Fairy folk. Fire-flies hung in
bright clusters on the dewy leaves, that waved in the cool night-wind; and
the flowers stood gazing, in very wonder, at the little Elves, who lay
among the fern-leaves, swung in the vine-boughs, sailed on the lake in lily
cups, or danced on the mossy ground, to the music of the hare-bells, who
rung out their merriest peal in honor of the night.
Under the shade of a wild rose sat the Queen and her little Maids of
Honor, beside the silvery mushroom where the feast was spread.
"Now, my friends," said she, "to wile away the time till the bright
moon goes down, let us each tell a tale, or relate what we have done or
learned this day. I will begin with you, Sunny Lock," added she, turning
to a lovely little Elf, who lay among the fragrant leaves of a primrose.
With a gay smile, "Sunny Lock" began her story.
"As I was painting the bright petals of a blue bell, it told me this tale."
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THE FROST-KING: OR, THE
POWER OF LOVE.
THREE little Fairies sat in the fields eating their breakfast; each
among the leaves of her favorite flower, Daisy, Primrose, and Violet, were
happy as Elves need be.
The morning wind gently rocked them to and fro, and the sun shone
warmly down upon the dewy grass, where butterflies spread their gay
wings, and bees with their deep voices sung among the flowers; while the
little birds hopped merrily about to peep at them.
On a silvery mushroom was spread the breakfast; little cakes of
flower-dust lay on a broad green leaf, beside a crimson stra