Among the Meadow People

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/frontispiece.png" width-obs="396" height-obs="640" alt="HAYING IN THE MEADOW" title="" /> <span class="caption">HAYING IN THE MEADOW</span></div> <hr style="width: 100%;" /> <h1><span class="smcap">Among the Meadow People</span></h1> <h5>BY</h5> <h2><span class="smcap">Clara Dillingham Pierson</span></h2> <h4>Illustrated by F. C. GORDON</h4> <h5>NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION</h5> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/titlepg.jpg" width-obs="160" height-obs="118" alt="" title="" /></div> <h4>NEW YORK<br/> E. P. DUTTON &amp; COMPANY<br/> <span class="smcap">31 West Twenty-Third Street</span></h4> <hr style="width: 100%;" /> <h5><span class="smcap">COPYRIGHT</span><br/> E. P. DUTTON &amp; CO.<br/> 1899<br/> <br/> <span class="smcap">COPYRIGHT</span><br/> CLARA DILLINGHAM PIERSON<br/> 1901</h5> <h4>The Knickerbocker Press, New York</h4> <hr style="width: 100%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_3" id="Page_3">3</SPAN></span></p> <h2>CONTENTS.</h2> <div class='center'> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> <tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;</td><td align='right'><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>INTRODUCTION</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_5">5</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE BUTTERFLY THAT WENT CALLING</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_7">7</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE ROBINS BUILD A NEST</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_14">14</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE SELFISH TENT-CATERPILLAR</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_22">22</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE LAZY SNAIL</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_31">31</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>AN ANT THAT WORE WINGS</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_37">37</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE CHEERFUL HARVESTMEN</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_42">42</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE LITTLE SPIDER'S FIRST WEB</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_50">50</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE BEETLE WHO DID NOT LIKE CATERPILLARS</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_56">56</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE YOUNG ROBIN WHO WAS AFRAID TO FLY</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_61">61</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE CRICKETS' SCHOOL</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_71">71</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE CONTENTED EARTHWORMS</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_76">76</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE MEASURING WORM'S JOKE</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_81">81</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>A PUZZLED CICADA</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_87">87</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE TREE FROG'S STORY</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_93">93</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE DAY WHEN THE GRASS WAS CUT</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_101">101</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE MEASURING WORM RUN A RACE</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_109">109</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>MR. GREEN FROG AND HIS VISITORS</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_114">114</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE DIGNIFIED WALKING-STICKS</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_120">120</SPAN><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_4" id="Page_4">4</SPAN></span></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE DAY OF THE GREAT STORM</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_128">128</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE STORY OF LILY-PAD ISLAND</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_134">134</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE GRASSHOPPER WHO WOULDN'T BE SCARED</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_142">142</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE EARTHWORM HALF-BROTHERS</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_151">151</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>A GOSSIPING FLY</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_156">156</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE FROG-HOPPERS GO OUT INTO THE WORLD</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_161">161</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE MOSQUITO TRIES TO TEACH HIS NEIGHBORS</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_171">171</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE FROG WHO THOUGHT HERSELF SICK</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_177">177</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE KATYDID'S QUARREL</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_183">183</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>THE LAST PARTY OF THE SEASON</td><td align='right'><SPAN href="#Page_188">188</SPAN></td></tr> </table></div> <hr style="width: 100%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_5" id="Page_5">5</SPAN></span></p> <h2>INTRODUCTION.</h2> <p>Many of these stories of field life were written for the little ones of my kindergarten, and they gave so much pleasure, and aroused such a new interest in "the meadow people," that it has seemed wise to collect and add to the original number and send them out to a larger circle of boys and girls.</p> <p>All mothers and teachers hear the cry for "just one more," and find that there are times when the bewitching tales of animals, fairies, and "really truly" children are all exhausted, and tired imagination will not supply another. In selecting the tiny creatures of field and garden for the characters in this book, I have remembered with pleasure the way in which my <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_6" id="Page_6">6</SPAN></span> loyal pupils befriended stray crickets and grasshoppers, their intense appreciation of the new realm of fancy and observation, and the eagerness and attention with which they sought Mother Nature, the most wonderful and tireless of all story-tellers.</p> <p style='text-align:right'> <span class="smcap">Clara Dillingham Pierson.</span></p> <p>Stanton, Michigan,<br/> &nbsp; &nbsp; April 8th, 1897.</p> <hr style="width: 100%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />