Elizabeth Gordon

“ Wherever we may go some of these little people are there before us, ready to help us by giving us food and to make life easy and joyous for us.
¶ In your Mother’s garden you will always find many familiar friends; in the fields the graceful Grain children will nod and beckon to you; in the orchard the Fruit children will peep out at you from their leafy homes; along the roadside the gay little Berries will give you a friendly greeting, and in the forest you will find the little wild Grapes climbing trees and playing hide and seek with the Bird children. ”

“ This little book is a thank-offering to the thousands of little friends who have so loyally given me their best in the way of encouragement and appreciation, and is most especially inscribed to Gladys Doris.
FOREWORD
seed, little friends, is really a plant or a tree all wrapped up in a little brown bundle. If you plant it in the ground it will grow, and when it is old enough it will bear fruit, because God has made it so.
¶ Among all the children of Mother Nature, the fruits and vegetables are probably the most useful to us. ”

“ She’s very sweet, and always good;
Her home is in the deep, wild wood 84
“I WORK,” said genial Mrs. Wheat,
“To give the world enough to eat;
I’m always happy when there’s bread
Enough, so every child is fed.” ”