A BIT OF ADVICE

Lady bug, Lady bug,

If I were you,

I would always carry

A bucket of dew,

To dash on my house, if it burned,

And then, may be,

I'd save every little Lady bug baby.

But some day a little insect will come out

of it.

How did he get in?
I will tell you.

Here is Mother Gall Fly.

One day she made

a hole in the oak

twig.

She cut it with

her sword.

Inside the hole she put an egg. In a short time this little house grew around the egg. The oak built the house.

Perhaps she wanted to get the egg as far from her as she could.

"Wind from the north or east

You I like least,

Wind from the south and west

You I like best."

What kind of weather does Shepherd Wind bring with him from the east?

Let us watch and find out.

"Whichever way the wind doth blow,

Some heart is glad to have it so.

Then blow it east or blow it west,

The wind that blows, that wind is best."

"You are not the only plant who makes balloons for her seed babies.

"Look at me."

"And look at me too," said the dandelion. Just then Shepherd Wind came along. Quicker than a wink, he whisked away the babies.

What a long journey they took!

Here are some of their companions.