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Title: In the child's world : morning talks and stories for kindergartens, primary schools and homes
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Poulsson, Emilie, 1853-1939 Bridgman, L. J. ill. (Lewis Jesse), 1857-1931, ill
Subjects: Kindergarten Education
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Milton Bradley
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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longenough up in the clouds, and said it would go down to the earthand see what good it could do. So it started. While it was falling it had to pass through a cloud that wasvery cold, and this funny little Raindrop, instead of shrinkingtogether as we do when we are cold, stretched out and stretchedout till it was not round any more, but was long and thin andhard like a needle: and that is just what it was—a little iceneedle. As it went on falling, it met another just like itself. The second one said: Little Ice Needle, where are yougoing?1 Down to the earth to see what good I can do. Ill go, too; so the second ice needle joined the first (putthe two sticks together at angle of sixty degrees), and they felltogether. Pretty soon they met a third, and it said : Little Ice Needles,where are you going? Down to the earth to see what good we can do. Then Ill go, too. So it joined the others and they felltogether. (Add a third stick at the same angle, and so on till a ;ce . r2kin . clouds.
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221 222 IN THE CHILDS WORLD. six-pointed snow-star is made.) Then they met another andanother and another, who all joined them. Then there weresix little ice needles falling together, and they had a new name-Snowflake. Little Snowflake met others who asked it where it was going. Down to the ground to see what good I can do. Well go, too. But where shall we go? I know, said one of the little ice needles. Last summer,when I was warm and round, I saw a place where a poor littlesick boy had planted some seeds which a kind lady gave him,and I think it would be so nice to fall on that place and keep itwarm, so that the seeds in the ground may not freeze, and thelittle boy may have some flowers next summer. Oh! so we will, said they all, and they fell faster andfaster, that they might get there sooner. Other snowflakes sawthem and went too, and the ground was covered more and morethickly with snow till there was enough to keep the seeds fromfreezing all winter. When the weather began to be w

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