| IN PROSE. | |
| PAGE. | |
| The Mother's Prayer | [33] |
| Coosie and Carrie | [36] |
| The Fourth of July Cake | [38] |
| How our School came to have the Nursery | [42] |
| Where the Dandelions went | [43] |
| The Bird's Nest | [44] |
| Meditations of a Shut-out One | [46] |
| Dreaming and Doing | [48] |
| Prairie Dogs | [51] |
| A Journey to California | [55] |
| A Letter to George | [58] |
| The Blackberry Frolic | [60] |
IN VERSE. | |
| PAGE. | |
| Charley's Opinion | [35] |
| Song of the Brook | [41] |
| Bobolink | [50] |
| Dear Little Mary | [53] |
| Little Jack Homer (with music) | [64] |
THE MOTHER'S PRAYER.
THE MOTHER'S PRAYER.
NCE there was a good mother whose chief prayer for her little boy in his cradle was that he might have a loving heart. She did not pray that he might be wise or rich or handsome or happy or learned, or that others might love him, but only that he might love.