Hold out your hand and stretch out your fingers. Does not the maple leaf look as if it had fingers, too? We may call the maple leaf a hand-shaped leaf. Perhaps we can find more hand-shaped leaves. Let us go to the currant bushes. Yes, these also have hand-shaped leaves.
One of the strangest leaves in the world is shaped like a pitcher. It has a lid that opens and shuts. Some leaves of this kind hold more than a cup of water.
There are leaves shaped like hearts and leaves shaped like arrowheads. And there are many other wonderful leaves which we may see if we keep our eyes open.
Green leaves, what are you doing
Up there on the tree so high?
"We are shaking hands with the breezes,
As they go singing by."
What, green leaves! have you fingers?
Then, the maple laughed with glee—
"Yes, just as many as you have;
Count them, and you will see!"
—Kate Louise Brown.