| (as) | gave | (h ide) | thank |
| h as | bread | s ide | time |
BABY
Baby has been playing in the meadow.
She has been playing there all day.
She has been playing hide and seek.
She likes to hide.
She likes to seek.
All day Blue-bird has been singing.
She has been singing in the meadow.
Playing and singing, singing and playing!
What a good time Baby and Blue-bird have had!
They have been glad all the day long.
Blue-bird was singing to her little ones.
Baby said she was singing to her, too.
Baby saw Blue-bird’s nest.
Three little birds were in the nest.
She gave them some bread for breakfast.
“Peep! peep! Thank you! thank you!” said the little birds.
They were glad, but they longed to fly.
They wanted to fly over the tree-tops.
Baby found some pussy willows.
They were growing in the meadow.
She found a sweet blue violet, too.
Pussy willows and violet were growing there side by side.
They peeped at Baby as she came up.
Baby gave the violet to her mother.
“Thank you, my dear,” said mother.
“I love the sweet violet.
I love my baby, too.
Violet tells me summer is coming,
Summer, and the summer sky, so blue.”