Potter, Miriam Clark, 1886-1965, Balcom, Sophia T · New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 276
and go sleepin a hollyhock. I want to fly about as you do, andsee things in the darkness. The firefly was a very obliging creature and de-cided to do as the butterfly asked. So, as the twi-light deepened into darkness, it gave its little lampto the butterfly and curled up to sleep in the heartof a… … I am a butterfirefly! This isdelightful. A frog in a pool saw it coming and croaked out: You foolish thing, to blunder about with the fireflys light. You were not made to fly at night. 263 THE PINAFORE POCKET STORY BOOK Old Grandmother Owl in the wild plum treehooted at it. Stupid creature, trying…
Children's poetry, American
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