"Thank you," said the Violet. "Please take some of mine back to my cousins." She laid some of hers on his head, and he flew off.
Filled with joy, the Violet set to work to make her little green balls into seeds.
"Well, if I had thought a bee really would come, I would have made a flower too," said the Pansy.
THE CHERRY CHILDREN
It was early spring. The Cherry Children woke up and called: "Mother, may we go to play now?"
"Wait till I have made your fairy boats," said the Cherry Mother.
They lay still and waited, and she made their fairy boats, with white silk sails. Then they sprang up and played in the sunshine, sailing to and fro on the spring winds, and throwing tiny scent-balls out into the air. The bees and butterflies and silver moths came to visit them; everybody laughed and chattered and was happy.
After a while the Cherry Children grew tired.
"Mother," they called, "we have played enough. We should like to rest now."